The Puncture

Blew a valve

So I came back from holiday on Thursday night, and when I went to use the van on Friday night, I noticed I had a flat front passenger tyre.

This was the 2nd one in a month, with one of the drivers rear tyres needing replaced earlier on this month at a cost of £80, so could do without that again so soon after the last one.

The back one was easy enough to get looked at, as it's a twin wheel base, I could still drive down to the garage the last time to get a new tyre.

But this time, with it being on the front, I needed to get the spare from underneath the chassis.. this was a total pain in the arse.

Firstly, I couldn't get the spare down, it's one of the ones where you have to stick a big extended socket into a hole then winch it down.. it seemed to be ceased. After much attempts, I gave the spare a kick and it came un-ceased.. great so I could get it on now.

I swapped the wheels over, then went to blow up the tyre at the garage to see if I could spot the puncture, as it turns out the valve was faulty, so a cheap and simple repair this time.

But now I can't get the spare wound back up below the chassis, so going to have to crawl under the van when it's dry to check that out... so for now the bracket that holds it in place, is just wrapped around the frame so it's not dragging along the road!!