why is it????

I had that. Three tyres in a week One repairable, other two were sidewall damage and the tyres had to be replaced. The sidewall ones were probably malicious. Strange thing is it wa son the Micra not the Merc, so there must be someone round here did not like Micras for some reason.

Incidentally I went to Farmer Autocare to get the first one done and was not impressed at all. In fact I have never been quite so disappointed by anyones attitude to a customer, but then it is a franchise so it might vary from town to town.

Could be a 4x4 driver living near fishman.

????????????Could be a 4x4 driver living near fishman.?????????????

First of all, please don't top post.

Secondly - you're new around here, aren't you? This is a local newsgroup for local people. There's nothing for you here :-)

sorry AstraVan man - i'll just go and pump up my tyre and then crawl away and hide somewhere then.

At least you haven't had what happened to me. I purchased a new car, at 90 miles it had a flat tyre. Contacted the garage where I bought it and was advised to take it to there tyre fitters who asked when I last had a puncture, I said why and they replied you have a tube in that tyre!!!!!! I came to the conclusion that the wheel must have been damaged during delivery to the garage. The total mileage I had driven was about 40 miles!!! The garage and I had a very interesting conversation!!!!!!!

Ray

They haven't both been in the same workshop have they?

and was it nails, or bits of welding rod? .....

I can't see why it should be covered by the warrantee.

Did you visit B&Q. Got a nail just like you did. I had 7 psi when I discovered the nail, pumped it up to 35 psi. Next morning the pressure had dropped to 30 psi, hence I could estimate that it had happened 2-3 days earlier when I visited B&Q after work. I guess something must have dropped off a builders lorry around where I parked.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, snipped-for-privacy@burnt.org.uk decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

I don't see why warranty should be written like that.

cos it was punctured when the car was picked up. Mind you the other problem was also interesting - it was that one of the 3 bolts on the offside upper mounting point of the front suspension strut (in the engine bay) was missing - 2 were present and third one missing. No-one inc me noticed it initially. It had been serviced and had an MOT too.

What's a "warrantee"? Similar to a warranty?

yes, but dissimilar to a "guaranty" ;-)

Some warranties (Gislaved is the one I've had experience of) will cover something like this.

If it's vandalised or damaged before the tyre is 25% worn (75% of the tread left), they'll give you a new tyre.

There's then a sliding scale depending on the wear.

Pete.

Last time I was in the States, I bought a puncture repair kit which doesn't need the tyre taken off the rim. Useful for such occasions but possibly illegal over here.

Probably shouldn't be written like that in this context. My mistake.

Often sold as 'get you home solutions' for motorcycles; a rubber plug and adhesive. Personally I've not been convinced by them but have had limited success although it's a very temporary repair. Ultraseal on the other hand seems to work well enough.

If you're wondering what people are complaining about, when you post a reply at the top, it is known as "top posting" and is deprecated on usenet (where we are). What *most* people prefer is "inline quoting" where you put comments after what you are commenting on. Course, some places on usenet would rather you top posted when not inline quoting, because it saves paging down when there's nothing else added except "me too" after ten pages of debate.

Round here, best to bottom post or inline quote, unlike this post. Damn, I spoiled it. Still, at least you know there's nothing below what needs reading. ;)

Apparently >cos it was punctured when the car was picked up. Mind you the other problem

TFT