Pram wheels / space-saver spares . . .

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Get em out the boot over the weekend and check the pressures. 

They should be set to 4.2bar/61psi, but last week end, when I was being anal, and hoovering the wheel well, thought I'd check the pressure for the first time in about 6 months, and it had dropped to 32psi. 

EDIT: corrected/clarified pressure

[RedRobin]

....I keep meaning to check my steel spare's pressure, but at least I know my dealer checks it on a service.

[Cass]

Get em out the boot over the weekend and check the pressures. 

They should be set to 62psi, but last week end, when I was being anal, and hoovering the wheel well, thought I'd check the pressure for the first time in about 6 months, and it had dropped to 32psi. 

Must have been a Dyson Animal - mine sucks up the floorboards

Cass

[Teutonic_Tamer]

....I keep meaning to check my steel spare's pressure, but at least I know my dealer checks it on a service.

They don't/won't check the spare if they have to remove it from the boot to access the valve - and the Golf space saver definately needs removing.  And I checked mine less than one week after its 20k service at the stealer! 

[RedRobin]

....I keep meaning to check my steel spare's pressure, but at least I know my dealer checks it on a service.

They don't/won't check the spare if they have to remove it from the boot to access the valve - and the Golf space saver definately needs removing.  And I checked mine less than one week after its 20k service at the stealer! 

....Perhaps it's not standard practice but mine will

[Teutonic_Tamer]

....I keep meaning to check my steel spare's pressure, but at least I know my dealer checks it on a service.

They don't/won't check the spare if they have to remove it from the boot to access the valve - and the Golf space saver definately needs removing.  And I checked mine less than one week after its 20k service at the stealer! 

....Perhaps it's not standard practice but mine will

I'd still recommend "hoicking" (as in Marc Benton in the Nationwide ads) it out the boot and checking for yourself!  Should you be unlucky enough to get a puncture, and it aint up to pressure - then your dealer and the little smiley won't be used in the same sentance! 

[RobGTI]

Interesting didn't know tyre pressure on the biscuit wheel was supposed to be so high.

BTW, I saw a guy last week pass my on the M50 in a Merc CLS with 3 big alloys and one biscuit on the back doing 90 -100, on the phone and in heavy rain, good cars eh?

[bobotheclown]

I got this conversion kit so that I an have a full size spare wheel. It doesn't fit the GTI exactly so a little trimming was needed. Easy install and peace of mind that I have a full size spare wheel in the back. Takes up some boot space.

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Interesting didn't know tyre pressure on the biscuit wheel was supposed to be so high.

I think that is a "standard" pressure for all space savers, irrespective of what they are on - 4.2bar or 62psi.  The big yellow stickers on the actual wheel really identify them, and a couple of times in Germany, I've seen the German plod stopped at the roadside examining any car with a trolley wheel, and actually checking pressures! 

BTW, I saw a guy last week pass my on the M50 in a Merc CLS with 3 big alloys and one biscuit on the back doing 90 -100, on the phone and in heavy rain, good cars eh?

Nowt surprises me.  I reckon Merc drivers are the new "BMW" drivers, if you get my drift.  Usually, whenever I'm out on my bike, if anyone is trying to kill me, it is always a feckin Merc! 

[finlayjacobin]

Hey Bobotheclown, you bought that from me on ebay! Irecognise that drive, and the wing mirror shadow must be from my GTI!