Having been accustomed to two 29 year old Toyotas (which I still have) and weekend toys which, in the past, included 2 Caterham 7s and an Elise S1 (all now sadly gone) - I have just acquired a 2015 Rapid 1.4TSi DSG with just 26k on the clock to comply with the new ULEZ zone extension which is coming in next year. I'm pretty impressed so far, albeit the Owners Manual has managed to fox me a few times!  Before I joined I had already found very useful stuff from this site. Anyway - hello! Only thing of significance I have acquired so far is a proper spare wheel - which just proves what an old codger I am 🤣 

Hello Neil 

 

A proper spare wheel is probably the best first thing you could acquire 👍 Hopefully you'll never need it, but you'll be glad of it if ever you do.  I can only remember needing a spare perhaps twice in 40+ years of driving, but both times I'd have been marooned if all I had was a can of gunk and a pump to rely on.

 

Gaz

6 minutes ago, Gaz said:

Hello Neil 

 

A proper spare wheel is probably the best first thing you could acquire 👍 Hopefully you'll never need it, but you'll be glad of it if ever you do.  I can only remember needing a spare perhaps twice in 40+ years of driving, but both times I'd have been marooned if all I had was a can of gunk and a pump to rely on.

 

Gaz

Same here, Gaz,  re number of times it's actually happened to me - I just I didn't fancy being stuck on a motorway in the poring rain, removing valve stems, reading instructions and then discovering that the damage to the tyre meant I couldn't use the gunk anway!

More fool you for reading the instructions, I never do so don't need to remove valve cores 😆

 

I presume that you meant valve cores.

 

Seriously I have never removed a valve core when using a can of gunk and I have used many, and seriously I only read instructions when all else fails so you could be correct but is that not perhaps the procedure for the gunk that comes with a tyre inflator pump in the standard "no spare wheel" kit? - It had already been removed from my vehicle together with anything else that wasn't screwed down.

22 minutes ago, J.R. said:

More fool you for reading the instructions, I never do so don't need to remove valve cores 😆

 

I presume that you meant valve cores.

 

Seriously I have never removed a valve core when using a can of gunk and I have used many, and seriously I only read instructions when all else fails so you could be correct but is that not perhaps the procedure for the gunk that comes with a tyre inflator pump in the standard "no spare wheel" kit? - It had already been removed from my vehicle together with anything else that wasn't screwed down.

Yes - I meant the valve core and yes it's the instructions that go with the standard "no spare wheel" kit that was still in the car. Spare core comes with kit. Gunk is obviously fine for normal punctures - my last "event" I had major tyre damage when something fell off the back of a lorry on the M1 which I couldn't avoid....and of course it was in torrential rain.