One week in, everything going swimmingly and I go and get a screw embedded deep into the inside part of a Michelin Pilot front tyre!

Darned bad luck I thought and a completely pointless post, other than sharing it with your goodselves.

Conclusion being I've just ordered a tyre online to be fitted tomorrow at my work for a total of

How much :eek: :eek:

Have you tried event tyres?

And is that a PS, PE2 or Pilot Primacy?

That's a PE2, shopped around a few local tyre places this afternoon and they were all nearer the

What size?

I was looking more like

Michelin - 225/45 R17 [94W] - Pilot Exalto 2 PE2 [Extra Load] - Event Mobile Tyres

That is for 225/45/R17's and about

Are you sure it's not repairable?

Chris

... at around

Well, a bit of an interesting day all round when it came to tyres.....

Had the mobile tyre fitter booked to come to my work and put a new tyre (yes, they are on the 18s) but they decided the branch was too far away (??) and could not do it until Friday. Cancelled and refunded.

Took it to the tyre place the Skoda dealer recommended, who they use for any new tyres on trade ins etc. They suggested gambling at taking the screw out, if the tyre blew then the spare would do until the morning, if not then hurrah.

Upshot was the worlds shortest screw came out of the tyre and had just filled the tread and no more.

Same thing happened to me :thumbdwn:

Good result; there was presumably no indication of a 'puncture' from the screw with a loss of pressure.

It is amazing though how many Screws finish up on the road, just waiting for you to run over them !!!!!!

Yes; and I bet that next time you have a tyre problem you will be straight round to see them, directly; not going elsewhere!

I think it is called 'Customer Service'.

Careful... not many places have heard of that these days :(

Nice one for you though and good to hear they sorted you out

I must have been a bad boy in a previous life........

A SECOND screw now picked up on exactly the same front tyre, noticed today after the TPM blipped at me earlier this afternoon.

Right on the sidewall, obviously causing loss of pressure, so a visit to Fair Deal tomorrow and a few quid lighter after all.

Ah well.

I must have been a bad boy in a previous life........

A SECOND screw now picked up on exactly the same front tyre, noticed today after the TPM blipped at me earlier this afternoon.

Right on the sidewall, obviously causing loss of pressure, so a visit to Fair Deal tomorrow and a few quid lighter after all.

Ah well.

It never rains, but it pours !!!! Or something like that; comiserations.

I used to run pilots on the Octy but got that many screws/nails in It was costing me an arm and a leg... none seemed to end up in a reparable part of the tread..maybe its the pilots tread pattern that aligns the pointy wee b*ggers towards the side walls?...

I switched to running on non branded 'Debica' tyres at

I must have been a bad boy in a previous life........

A SECOND screw now picked up on exactly the same front tyre, noticed today after the TPM blipped at me earlier this afternoon.

Right on the sidewall, obviously causing loss of pressure, so a visit to Fair Deal tomorrow and a few quid lighter after all.

Ah well.

Yikes!

My betting's that you work on an industrial estate?

Well done that man, got it in one!

Yikes!

My betting's that you work on an industrial estate?

Or else your are running 'off-line onto the marbles' too often.

It pays to keep away from the kerbs etc and stick to the areas of road that are 'swept clean' by other cars.

As a result of my kerbing I have also mullered my wheel (B14 style -

...I am just having to replace one of mine, as it has got a split in the sidewall having been kerbed fairly hard taking evasive action to avoid being hit by a 52 str Coach in a narrow village street (I came around a blind bend and he was well over to my side of the road and it was either hit him or the kerb - the kerb won).

My local tyre emporium, who I have used for years and get a pretty strong discount with, is getting one in for me (225/40 18 PE2) for

I ought to clarify; it wasn't a kerb but a pothole in the verge, just off the tarmac section of the road. The wheel dipped into the hole and the tyre/sidewall got squashed on the edge and squeezed between the pothole and wheel.

Here is a pic of the damage:-

Ouch! Ouch! and double Ouch!

Where theres blame theres a claim. I'd try and Sue the council for that

Where theres blame theres a claim. I'd try and Sue the council for that

I have condsidered this and have done it successfully in the past BUT the rub of the matter is that I had gone 'off' the road (tarmac bit) and onto the rough verge, which the Council will deny responsibility for maintaining and no doubt argue that I should have been 'on the road'!!

I could try my Insurers but the replacement tyre & wheeel cost falls with my Excess.

C'est la vie.

Want me to start a Save Bahnstormers B14 fund

Aw, gee, thanks; very kind of you but not needed.

Fortunately, for me, I have a Company Car so they are footing the bill. Phew.

Mind you a 'Parslad Puncture pot' would be an idea.

Two days passed so far since tyre replacement and no screws added as yet, 100 mile round trip tomorrow though. Wish me luck......