did some taxi work tonight taking swmbo's sister to and from the hospital and by the time i dropped her off at home there was a funny rumble and vibration from the back but the car felt fine, anywho my mate lives round the corner from her so i popped round to say hi.

when i got there i took a look around the suspect corner and found 1/2" of nail sticking out of the sidewall of the tyre, the bloody thing has gone through the tread then back out of the sidewall.

sod it, best price i have found for a replacement is £77.40 delivered from mytyres and i know a local tyre fitters quite well luckily

bloody waste of a good tyre thats not that old :(

bengie, it never seems to happen to the one you are about to replace does it

I went through a spate of wrecked tyres a few years ago on the bike.

No chance of getting those repaired.

At least you never lost control

Unlucky mate :(

Tyres are like that, aren't they - expensive but worthless as soon as they get the slightest bit of damage - ho hum.

never mind, I'm sure you managed to get the spare out and get home OK........

oh, bugger...... where's the spare ?

it was at home so i had to call my personal 24hr assistance

luckily i was only a couple miles from home.

Typical that - was that to the JR? (as SWMBO works there )

yeah, thats where i think i picked up the house retaining nail

lovely looking building but sadly i fear it has cost me more than a couple quids worth of petrol visiting it :(

it was at home so i had to call my personal 24hr assistance

and get them out of bed...

:P

i didn't know

You have my sympathy mate, remember this not so long ago!?.

yeah, annoying isn't it

Why was your spare at home??

You were lucky that you were near home

"Now let that be a lesson" he said

there isn't a space for a spare

Yep, again, I sympathise. Total bill of £240 to replace the cracked alloy and a tyre. Again, tyre still had 6mm to go. Not impressed.