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Offline the_stink

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lucky it happened when it did!
« on: 30 August 2009, 12:23 »
had my old man asking me for some money i borrowed was going to get it later but thought ill go down the garage get the money out and do the tyre pressures as im going to a meet this afternoon,

leave the garage at a set of lights pull away and all of a sudden hear this very strange flappy whistle from the rear, the valve on the rear driver side burst and well lucky it didnt happen last night when i was on the dual carriage way!!

the joys of owning car  :grin:

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Re: lucky it happened when it did!
« Reply #1 on: 30 August 2009, 12:25 »
doh! did it go flat flat? if you drove on it for any distance with no air in the rim starts to cut away at the rubber inside and you might need a new tyre too :undecided:

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Re: lucky it happened when it did!
« Reply #2 on: 30 August 2009, 12:29 »
it was dead

the ironic thing is i was going to get this tyre changed anyway as it was getting low on tred

oh well changing the front two next month as they are running low then going to get the camber all checked