I have just bought a secondhand corsa. In lovely condition but the metal yre pressure tube thingy on the two back tyres are corroded and i cant get my pump to fit to put some air in the tyres. Will i...
So on Saturday me and the Ms experienced a flat tyre. This was due to the tyre being pinched against a curb. The tyre was totally gashed and blew. Luckily we were about 1 metre away from our drive. I...
Why do tyre inflators have a setting for flat tyres. Yesterday I had a flat tyre to inflate and since I was there I decided to do all the other tyres. So I set the pressure to the correct setting and...
The latest disaster in the history of my Laguna is as follows :- When putting air into the tyre the valve snapped off. I put the spare on and took the tyre to the local tyre shop and had a new valve...
Could someone please advise the rights and wrongs of repairing a tyre from a motorhome. A screw hole, less than 6mm dia, is right in the centre of the tyre so the position doesn't seem a problem. The...
Why oh Why oh Why ... ... do all tyre fitters, everywhere, assume that [i] all [i] car tyres should be inflated to 32psi. Once again the idiots at my local place have inflated a new tyre to this...
My Honda Jazz, with only 3000 miles on the clock, has a brand new tyre fitted to the rear offside wheel. This tyre, unlike the others, keeps losing its pressure ; about 2 or 3 psi per day. Two...
When I went on a 'speeding awareness' course recently the instructor posed the question, 'If you're going to embark on a long motorway trip would you change your tyre pressures?' Apparently the...
The front offside tyre (155 70R13) of my car deflate slowly day by day and I need to pump it up every 2 week. Given this rate, I am not sure if there is a puncture on the tyre. Anyone know what...
As a nearly retired motor mechanic, I still do the odd car repair. My mother in law was complaining about her 2013 Nissan Micra last weekend. It has a tyre pressure warning system she blamed, which...
hello...CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME A ANSWER TO A QUESTION I HAVE..HOW MUCH DOES TYRE AIR PRESSURE CHANGE WITH THE TEMPERATURE (A) APPROX 0.2BAR/15C (B) APPROX 0.1BAR/15C (C) APPROX 0.1BAR/10C (D)...
Hello. My old car (10 years) is suffering from a couple of ailments at the moment peeling paint and deflating tyres. I'm not bothered about the paintwork as I can probably sort that out but the tyre...
i have had to use one of those mechanical tyre inflator pieces of kit at the Shell garage, yes it was free, but, it was one of those silver metal things that you have to depress, then half depress...