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That is the sound of my front tire.
Of all the sucky things punctures are in there with Ms H. But lo, the clever b'tards who designed my car didn't include a spare, instead there's an inflator with special glue/gunk to seal the hole until the tire is replaced.
All this happens, of course, when I am very nicely dressed and on my way out to dinner.
veni bibi saltavi
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Quote: But lo, the clever b'tards who designed my car didn't include a spare, instead there's an inflator with special glue/gunk to seal the hole until the tire is replaced.
Still don't see the point of those things if you have more than hole they are useless. I suppose it's something to do with lowering the weight of the car to fudge emission readings...
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... and to make repairs more expensive. Instead of a new tire, I have to buy a new tire and more gunk!
veni bibi saltavi
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Unless you're in the habit of driving in a manner which causes the police (or the mob) to deploy a stinger the chances of any actual puncture are tiny and the chances of a double puncture in a single tire as near zero as makes no difference. In any case the sealant is designed to spread throughout the tire indiscriminately and therefore seal all holes present. It is only an emergency measure and you are required (usually by law) to make a full replacement as soon as possible.
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True, but I have had a tyre completely blow under me (it was a fault with the tyre) and the can of expanding gunk was no use! (the worst bit was loosening the wheel nuts, not an easy task and then finding no spare or jack!)
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: I have had a tyre completely blow under me (it was a fault with the tyre) and the can of expanding gunk was no use
Did you actually try it? You may be writing it off a bit too soon 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I couldn't the rental company used some cra*** remoulds that broke down completely (the side wall disintegrated). 
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I was thinking you could have used the gunk to glue all the pieces back together again 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I think in cases of explosive decompression they'd really rather like you to sit quietly and await help. Driving while in a state of shock (it can be one hell of a big bang!) is generally frowned upon by t'plod!
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I was jet lagged wanted to get to the hotel.  moaned at the answerphone complained to the repair guy (who was shocked I managed to loosen the wheel nuts with a Leatherman!! 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: b'tards who designed my car didn't include a spare
OEMs are trying to limit embedded weight, so this will be the standard in the future, if not already.
What you may do is buy a BMW, they have run-flats as a standard.
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Or buy a Jeep. They all come with full-size spares. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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You could also buy two instances of the same car.
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I'd rather just have a CarFactory, then I can create my own instances.
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OriginalGriff wrote: tire
Another Brit using the US spelling! 
Or has Wales now seceded from the Union and become the 51st state?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Found this online but the page was not the easiest to link to so...
Etymologists have suggested two possible derivations of the word “tire/tyre.”
One comes from the original function of the tire as the metal hoop or band of iron
that “tied” or bound the wheel together. In this usage, referring to wagon wheels
and the like, tire has consistently been spelled with an “i” on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The other possible origin of the word and the one which has the greater
etymological support is the word “attire,” from which the short first syllable was
dropped over time.
In this sense, the tire is the attire or dressing of the wheel. As etymologist Webb
Garrison explained in his book, “What’s in a Word?”
“For centuries, any type of dress or equipment was commonly known
as attire. Careless pronunciation clipped off the first syllable so that it
became customary to speak of both useful and ornamental coverings as
’tire. This name applied to a multitude of objects from a woman’s frock
to the curved iron plates used to ‘dress up’ wheels of carts and wagons.”
Two of the most authoritative dictionaries of the English language, “Webster’s
Third New International” in the United States and “The Oxford English Dictionary”
in Britain, agree with Garrison.
The Oxford dictionary, the British standard, says tyre is a variant spelling of tire
(implying that tire is the more etymologically correct spelling). Regarding the
spelling, the dictionary’s entry under “Tire” says:
“From 15th to 17th c. spelt tire and tyre indifferently. Before 1700 tyre
became generally obsolete, and tire remained the regular form, as it still does
in America; but in Great Britain tyre has been revived as the popular term for
the rubber rim of bicycle, tricycle, carriage, or motor car wheels, and is
sometimes used for the steel tires of locomotive wheels.”
In 1956, Philip Schidrowitz, writing in the “European Rubber Journal,” argued for
the British spelling of tyre, by pointing out that the official spelling in the various
classified publications of the British patent office has consistently been with a “y.”
Nevertheless, he also noted that the patent for the first pneumatic tire, that of
R.W. Thomson in 1845, used the spelling “tire.” However, Schidrowitz
contended that Thomson used the word as applying only to the rim of the wheel,
referring to his own invention as an “elastic belt” or “elastic bearing.”
The British evidently resurrected the archaic spelling −tyre− to distinguish
between the modern pneumatic tire, made of rubber, and its iron predecessor,
used on wagon wheels.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: tire
I know you're now officially Hungarian, but does that mean you have to use "American English" spellings everywhere?
Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: I know you're now officially Hungarian, but does that mean you have to use "American English" spellings everywhere?
Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre".
Thank you. I was to say the same, but with lots of faarrrkkkks thrown in.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: but with lots of faarrrkkkks thrown in.
We would expect nothing less from you MM.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I'm Thai'd of this whole conversation.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are you never tyred with correcting spelling errors ?
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Technically, it's a word-choice error. "Tire" is a valid English word, just not the correct word in that context.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre"
It is but there's no obvious justification for it. It's from the same root as 'attire' which I've never seen spelt 'attyre', have you?
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Originally the spellings tire and tyre were interchangeable, but in the 17th century tire became the settled spelling, which has remained the spelling in the USA. In Britain the development of the pneumatic tyre seemed to require some differentiation from the metal rim, and tyre was revived.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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