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Originally Posted by Luckypants
Cars!
Yesterday we got a puncture in the big car, rendering it useless as like all modern cars it has no spare. The OE tyres are self sealing (allegedly, experience proves otherwise) so not even a self inflation kit in my car. The wife limped it to the garage who will have a look today. The bright spot is the punctured tyre is due replacement anyway, so I'll have those done a week or two early.
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My son's car has runflats, and he's had no luck at all with them. A couple of months back a jagged exposed manhole cover ripped the sidewall of one rear tyre with a 4-inch gash. It was coming up to the car's MoT and they were getting close to being an advisory so he replaced the pair (£300).
Then last week he picked up a large masonry screw in the sidewall of one of the new tyres with only about 1,000 miles on it, couldn't be repaired. Another £150. If the screw had gone in 2" further down it would have been pluggable.