I need to vent!

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't mind paying for quality tyres since it's a safety issue - the lives of myself and my family on the road. Just sucks when I have to fix it because someone else didn't secure their stuff properly and dropped a bunch of nails and screws on the road.

[Omega Metro]

So sick of watching TV shows with stupid flashback and/or dream scenes.

[Sinnertwin]

I don't mind paying for quality tyres since it's a safety issue - the lives of myself and my family on the road. Just sucks when I have to fix it because someone else didn't secure their stuff properly and dropped a bunch of nails and screws on the road.

Did they offer to replace the inner tube/repair the punctures or was the tire itself in such poor condition they had to replace that also?

[MV75]

I don't mind paying for quality tyres since it's a safety issue - the lives of myself and my family on the road. Just sucks when I have to fix it because someone else didn't secure their stuff properly and dropped a bunch of nails and screws on the road.

I feel that. I got my current car 2.5 years ago now and at the time I put some pilot sport 3's on, not cheap at over $600 for all four, and yea, got a screw in one not long after. Puncture repair has held perfectly fine though even with all the abuse they get from my driving.

There's a tip that goes around, keep to the road where everyone else is driving, go on the parts where the majority of cars do not and you'll increase your nail / screw chances by a lot. But still, doesn't always work.

[GoktimusPrime]

There's a tip that goes around, keep to the road where everyone else is driving, go on the parts where the majority of cars do not and you'll increase your nail / screw chances by a lot. But still, doesn't always work.

Heh, this is what I was doing anyway and I still copped it.
Guess I took one for the "team"

[MV75]

Heh, this is what I was doing anyway and I still copped it.
Guess I took one for the "team"

Yep, we both did.

I have another car related rant too, taking a bunch of recyclables to the depot I decide to just let a truck in on the highway on ramp because I tend to drive pretty chilled most of the time, my reward was a thrown rock that put a dint on the bonnet (I have a pdr kit and fixed it easily), but also chipped the windscreen. Got $16 for the recyclables and a chip repair kit at supercheap is twice that. Dammit. They offer a chip repair service too, you'd think it would be better, I had to get the girl there to repeat herself when she said it was $70 a chip for them to do it! Right now just living with it as it's just a little divot from the glass with no cracks.

[GoktimusPrime]

Are you talking about that thing where they fill in the gap with some clear material that hardens up? Like on the old Windscreen O'Briens ads?

[MV75]

Are you talking about that thing where they fill in the gap with some clear material that hardens up? Like on the old Windscreen O'Briens ads?

I'd say it would be. I think they're all resin based repairs now.

[GoktimusPrime]

My car's computer informs me whenever there's a puncture. I didn't get to the thump thump stage as the nails were still plugging the holes... of sorts. Given enough time I'm sure that my tyre would've deflated to the point of thump thump. But I changed to my spare tyre as soon as the alert came on my dashboard and then took the tyre to be repaired the next day.

Then the annoying thing was to figure out how disable the tyre pressure alert on my car. I've done it once before but I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do it again. Heck, even right now I probably couldn't do it again. It's not something I exactly do frequently enough to remember off the top of my head.

I'd say it would be. I think they're all resin based repairs now.

And that costs $75 per chip?!