Flat tyre

A flat tree is always something that you don't want and more so when on holiday in a place that you have never been to.

Now I have over the years had the pleasure of changing the odd tyre and it's not a very difficult job.

So after spending sometime in working out how one realises the spare on a Clio, the first three bolts came undone with relative ease, the last one was the problem, more so as it's the locking one.

It did not matter what I did it would not move with the equipment that we had.

This is not good!

Lucky I am a member of the AA which in four or so years I have not used, so it was good that I had renewed this year again, a quick phone call and also the use of the help button on the Tom Tom satnav to find out just exactly where were were was all it took.

The lady at the other end said that an engineer would be with you within the hour, fifteen minutes later we get a text message on the phone saying that he should be with you in fifteen minutes and true to there words about fifteen minutes later he does indeed turn up.

After checking that we are who we said we are he gets to work and get the last bolt undone using a very long wrench, the problem he said was that who ever put the tyre on did it up with an air gun, and it's something that the AA get called out to a lot.

A little bit of confusion on that the spare tyre has different bolts and the entire job was carried out in less than ten minutes.

So really good service from the AA and I am pleased that we are members.


Because of where we were a new tyre was also fun but in the end we found a place that could not have been more helpful and had a new tyre on in no time, the replacement is not a top end tyre but will do the job for the next 17000 miles or so, not that I am going to check that sort of thing.

The only bad thing was having to payout for a new tyre.


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