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Author:  United Taxis 11 [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Oh my!!
2 night ago we had a major storm, proper 100 MPH plus winds. My contract was cancelled so o just went out early to face the drama, the second I logged on hires were fired at me left right and center, a lot of the local plots had 10 jobs + pending in them, was literally non stop till 10 o'clock, stayed out till 5, right as I dropped my last hire off, I was coming home and BANG, got the fright of my life pulled over ran round the other side of the car to find a massive pice of metal wire embedded in the sidewall of my inside rear tyre. Took my 15 minutes to yank the wire out the tyre and it was recked, and the wire as also marked he bodywork. So I just put the hazards on. And nursed it the 4 miles to the closest tyre shop. £60 for a the tyre
Author:  trotskys twin [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
United Taxis 11 wrote:
2 night ago we had a major storm, proper 100 MPH plus winds. My contract was cancelled so o just went out early to face the drama, the second I logged on hires were fired at me left right and center, a lot of the local plots had 10 jobs + pending in them, was literally non stop till 10 o'clock, stayed out till 5, right as I dropped my last hire off, I was coming home and BANG, got the fright of my life pulled over ran round the other side of the car to find a massive pice of metal wire embedded in the sidewall of my inside rear tyre. Took my 15 minutes to yank the wire out the tyre and it was recked, and the wire as also marked he bodywork. So I just put the hazards on. And nursed it the 4 miles to the closest tyre shop. £60 for a the tyre


Consider yerself lucky could have been a lot worse .....................B lucky ALWAYS =D> =D>
Author:  roythebus [ Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:18 pm ]
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Hit shappens as they say. Lucky you weren't going too fast when it went bang.
Author:  Nidge2 [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
United Taxis 11 wrote:
2 night ago we had a major storm, proper 100 MPH plus winds. My contract was cancelled so o just went out early to face the drama, the second I logged on hires were fired at me left right and center, a lot of the local plots had 10 jobs + pending in them, was literally non stop till 10 o'clock, stayed out till 5, right as I dropped my last hire off, I was coming home and BANG, got the fright of my life pulled over ran round the other side of the car to find a massive pice of metal wire embedded in the sidewall of my inside rear tyre. Took my 15 minutes to yank the wire out the tyre and it was recked, and the wire as also marked he bodywork. So I just put the hazards on. And nursed it the 4 miles to the closest tyre shop. £60 for a the tyre


Why didn't you change the tyre?
Author:  grandad [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
Nidge2 wrote:
United Taxis 11 wrote:
2 night ago we had a major storm, proper 100 MPH plus winds. My contract was cancelled so o just went out early to face the drama, the second I logged on hires were fired at me left right and center, a lot of the local plots had 10 jobs + pending in them, was literally non stop till 10 o'clock, stayed out till 5, right as I dropped my last hire off, I was coming home and BANG, got the fright of my life pulled over ran round the other side of the car to find a massive pice of metal wire embedded in the sidewall of my inside rear tyre. Took my 15 minutes to yank the wire out the tyre and it was recked, and the wire as also marked he bodywork. So I just put the hazards on. And nursed it the 4 miles to the closest tyre shop. £60 for a the tyre


Why didn't you change the tyre?

The most obvious answer to that would be that it is one of these modern vehicles that don't have a spare and you repair a puncture with a can of spray stuff. This woud not work under these circumstances.
Mind you, with all the high winds and probems associated, the advice is not to travel unless the journey is absolutly essential.
Busses and trains get canceled but taxi drivers carry on working instead of heeding the warnings.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:56 am ]
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£60 for a new tyre?

your lucky 4 miles didnt wreck a £200 alloy too
Author:  Nidge2 [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
grandad wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
United Taxis 11 wrote:
2 night ago we had a major storm, proper 100 MPH plus winds. My contract was cancelled so o just went out early to face the drama, the second I logged on hires were fired at me left right and center, a lot of the local plots had 10 jobs + pending in them, was literally non stop till 10 o'clock, stayed out till 5, right as I dropped my last hire off, I was coming home and BANG, got the fright of my life pulled over ran round the other side of the car to find a massive pice of metal wire embedded in the sidewall of my inside rear tyre. Took my 15 minutes to yank the wire out the tyre and it was recked, and the wire as also marked he bodywork. So I just put the hazards on. And nursed it the 4 miles to the closest tyre shop. £60 for a the tyre


Why didn't you change the tyre?

The most obvious answer to that would be that it is one of these modern vehicles that don't have a spare and you repair a puncture with a can of spray stuff. This woud not work under these circumstances.
Mind you, with all the high winds and probems associated, the advice is not to travel unless the journey is absolutly essential.
Busses and trains get canceled but taxi drivers carry on working instead of heeding the warnings.



Most Modern vehicles have a "FULL SIZED" spare wheel. My Passat has a "FULL SIZED," spare wheel. I wouldn't take a car out onto the road without a spare wheel. A can of foam is about as much use as a chocolate spanner and shouldn't be used on Taxis. Our Council doesn't allow space saver wheels or cans of spray of any sort and rightly so.
Author:  bloodnock [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:25 pm ]
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A spare tyre should be compulsory on all vehicles, be it full sized or space saver. Those retards that run the EU should ban those useless spray foam puncture kits, of course as they will mostly be chauffeured about in EU paid and supplied luxury vehicles you would need to ask yourself what the Feck would they know about mundane reality things such as punctures...wouldn't like to see their lily white EU beaurocrat hands getting soiled changing a spare wheel or their excessive sweat and body heat from their overly fat, greasy and greedy EU subsidised Euro Canteen fed bodies adding to our Global warming catastrophe now would we.

Pricks.
Author:  United Taxis 11 [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
it was proper peeing down outside when it happened. i do have a full spare 16" spare. but i just took it easy bd luckily the ground was wet to keep the type cool as it was nearly coming off the rim altogether
Author:  gusmac [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:43 pm ]
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bloodnock wrote:
A spare tyre should be compulsory on all vehicles, be it full sized or space saver. Those retards that run the EU should ban those useless spray foam puncture kits, of course as they will mostly be chauffeured about in EU paid and supplied luxury vehicles you would need to ask yourself what the Feck would they know about mundane reality things such as punctures...wouldn't like to see their lily white EU beaurocrat hands getting soiled changing a spare wheel or their excessive sweat and body heat from their overly fat, greasy and greedy EU subsidised Euro Canteen fed bodies adding to our Global warming catastrophe now would we.

Pricks.


Feel better now?


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Author:  bloodnock [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Oh my!!
gusmac wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
A spare tyre should be compulsory on all vehicles, be it full sized or space saver. Those retards that run the EU should ban those useless spray foam puncture kits, of course as they will mostly be chauffeured about in EU paid and supplied luxury vehicles you would need to ask yourself what the Feck would they know about mundane reality things such as punctures...wouldn't like to see their lily white EU beaurocrat hands getting soiled changing a spare wheel or their excessive sweat and body heat from their overly fat, greasy and greedy EU subsidised Euro Canteen fed bodies adding to our Global warming catastrophe now would we.

Pricks.


Feel better now?


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It'll take more than a Fechin Snickers (Formerly Marathon) bar and Pinup of a Wizzened old Joan Collins I'm afraid..still if it works for you gus that's fine. #-o
Author:  gusmac [ Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:51 pm ]
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