Help is at hand for when you can't get it up

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:07 pm

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/rac-rolls ... 00660.html

Good bit of work by the RAC there.
Amazing that they had 120,000 flats where there was no spare tyre?

The reporter clearly falls for marketing BS easily though...
"Many cars now come with a tyre inflation kit as standard, as this saves a significant amount of weight and therefore helps overall CO2 emissions"

*cough* bollocks *cough*

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:11 pm

Yeah, it's more like: A can of that slimey sh!t is much cheaper than a spare wheel and tyre..

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:13 pm

Nice colour! I wonder where you can order a set.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:28 pm

We used to sell the spare space saver wheels as an optional extra if customers wanted it instead of the spray goo. Cost like £160 or something like that iirc

just get a steelie, that's what my cars all use. That way you can keep caning it, none of this space saver 'drive slow to the nearest tyre place' crap. After all what use is a spare if you still have to immediately change the tyre that's blown

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:37 pm

The new Hondas don't even come with a jack or tool kit either now. Just the bottle of snot!!

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:43 pm

Thebusofwoe wrote:The new Hondas don't even come with a jack or tool kit either now. Just the bottle of snot!!

You can buy the spare and tools as an accessory

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:45 pm

I know but the point being they have stopped putting them in the new cars for the tiny extra mpg they recon there going to return lol. Load of rubbish. We have more customers complaining about it now, and buying space saver wheels.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:07 am

Yeah it's just a money spinner, think how much they must save by not fitting a spare in hundreds of thousands of cars. Plus all the people who then buy a spare

But yeah, I felt like a right kebab trying to explain to customers why there was a spray can in the boot rather than a spare. It defies common sense but you still have to say otherwise to them

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:33 am

Amen to that. And also when they are 100 yrs old, can't see, can't hear anything and keep asking "sorry, what, what"

trying to explain to them why there is no spare can be a 20min job

, oh dear I don't know

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:58 am

my missis would have to pay an extra 5% or so on her company car tax if she wanted a space saver wheel

As it is she has had two sidewall punctures and had to wait a total of 10 hours by the side of the road for assistance and both times had to be towed away to a garage that could fit a new tire. Hows that for lower carbon emissions