How to get out of trouble?

[Busterboo]

My experience of Tyreweld is:

1 The remaining pressure in the punctured tyre needs to be low enough to allow the Tyreweld to enter.
2 You need to follow the instructions about speed & distance after using it. (The first time I did, I went straight to Kwik Fit without allowing the gunk to spread & set and, when they took the tyre off, it shot everywhere. Oops.)

The other Z punctures I've had were beyond Tyreweld, needed a new tyre and I wished I'd had a spare.

 

[philbo909]

My experience of Tyreweld is:

1 The remaining pressure in the punctured tyre needs to be low enough to allow the Tyreweld to enter.
2 You need to follow the instructions about speed & distance after using it. (The first time I did, I went straight to Kwik Fit without allowing the gunk to spread & set and, when they took the tyre off, it shot everywhere. Oops.)

The other Z punctures I've had were beyond Tyreweld, needed a new tyre and I wished I'd had a spare.

same goes for a blowout, still can happen on a run-flat, like this https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1398649
i like the extra boot space, but a space saver would be great

 

[road warrior]

its worth mentioning that any gloop or tyreweld that is put in the tyre will send the balance of the tyre to hell and back like water in a barrel slopping around (which it effectively is). I had this proved to me at a tyre place when he put it on the balancing machine prior to repairing it.
i know nobody will be being silly after a roadside repair, so just worth knowing and appreciating if you get a bit of wheel wobble

 

[ZedConvert]

I'm about to order my new wheels (non RFs);

I have TPMS valves, so don't want to risk the 'gloop' damaging them; so am looking at the "tails" option with 3 small CO2 Capsules.

 

[Z4paul]

Thanks for the helpful responses esp the rats tails

These are rats tails
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173628406575
Rob

Hi Rob, just looking around for info on tpms and came across your post mentioning 'rats tails' - new one me and seems the link now takes one to a ebay page selling blood pressure monitors?? For those dark, wet and stormy nights by the side of the road with a flat tyre and no rats tails perhaps!!! Be good to know exactly how stressed we might be

 

[buzyg]

Thanks for the helpful responses esp the rats tails

These are rats tails
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173628406575
Rob

Hi Rob, just looking around for info on tpms and came across your post mentioning 'rats tails' - new one me and seems the link now takes one to a ebay page selling blood pressure monitors?? For those dark, wet and stormy nights by the side of the road with a flat tyre and no rats tails perhaps!!! Be good to know exactly how stressed we might be

:lol:

Here's a current link to some rats tails.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/192846397486?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=192846397486&targetid=908661474856&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9045305&poi=&campaignid=10199638297&mkgroupid=101938342477&rlsatarget=pla-908661474856&abcId=1145987&merchantid=113733415&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo9_SxcSs6gIVgrTtCh22qgneEAQYBiABEgIyGfD_BwE

Be interesting to see what it links too in a few years time, perhaps a nice bacon butty.

 

[Z4paul]

These are rats tails
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173628406575
Rob

Hi Rob, just looking around for info on tpms and came across your post mentioning 'rats tails' - new one me and seems the link now takes one to a ebay page selling blood pressure monitors?? For those dark, wet and stormy nights by the side of the road with a flat tyre and no rats tails perhaps!!! Be good to know exactly how stressed we might be

:lol:

Here's a current link to some rats tails.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/192846397486?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=192846397486&targetid=908661474856&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9045305&poi=&campaignid=10199638297&mkgroupid=101938342477&rlsatarget=pla-908661474856&abcId=1145987&merchantid=113733415&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo9_SxcSs6gIVgrTtCh22qgneEAQYBiABEgIyGfD_BwE

Be interesting to see what it links too in a few years time, perhaps a nice bacon butty.

they do exist, I thought this might have been a mousy myth or a ratty tale perhaps....