HI guys
The tyres on my Tiguan are Pirelli Scorpion’s self sealing and reading all you views here it’s just accrued to me I haven’t got one of those gunk canisters or an inflator though I do carry my own inflator in my boot anyway. Just checked this and I do have one of these kits, I wonder what for??♂️
I was a bit taken back by the cost of this puncture but thinking about it having self seals did save calling out the RAC and all the comings and goings of using the RAC space savers wheels. I know we dont directly pay for tyres but somewhere along the line we do.
I could of gone on for months without even knowing I had a screw in the tyre as I can only see a very small part of the circumference of the back wheel from the back but was contemplating carrying on with screw in all until the car was service and that would be sometime later next year. I was advised by some not to do that because it can damage the tyre beyond repair however that’s a bit academic now I know.
I did say to the tyre fitting manager that I could of got my grandson to remove the screw at home and just let the self seal fill the hole but I decide against this ideal because if the hole was too big for the self seal to work I would be stranded at home with no spare wheel. The tyre fitter did say not to remove the screw and just go to them but I guess he would say that.
I was a bit suspect of Kwikfit at first that they even changed the tyre as being a very small KF centre they just happened to have exactly that same tyre in stock, just the one. Sherlock would have been right on that suspect but then I remembered that last weekend after my road trip my grandson gave the car a good cleaning. He’s a bit of an enthusiast when comes to cars and cleaning right down to putting that black tyre wall stuff on the outer edges of the tyre to give them that black shiny look and of course the new tyre has no sign of that stuff on it. How can I be so suspicious. ??
Still we learn something everyday and what I’ve learned here is to stick to my golden rule of never driving through B&Q’s car park where the white van builder man loads up his screws and nails for his next job leaving half of them all over the car park? . The other thing I’ve learn is carry on with screw or nails in tyre until it goes flat or its torn to ribbons.
Just one last thing about the Pirelli’s is there not bad tyres, reasonable quite and stick to the road like poo on a blanket and some tell me there getting 40,000 miles out of them, that would be a first for me if I did but at the moment I’m only getting 3,000 miles. ?