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taztastic



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Lucky Escape

Just been to check my tyre pressures as the car felt a little wallowy, placed the inflation nozzle on the tyre and "whoosh" it's pushed the valve inside the wheel Shocked
Just come off the motorway too Sad


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hinchy



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England 2013 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Lux Auto Aintree Green

Bloody hell taztastic never seen that happen before.
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Post #243279 2nd Dec 2014 1:33 pm
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England 2015 Freelander 2 SD4 Metropolis LE Auto Loire Blue

Had a similar thing on our Suzuki. Got home went inside, came back out and offside rear was flat as a pancake. I poked the valve and it just fell on the ground. Rubber had perished/rotted and the tyres had been changed less than a year previously. Went round to the nearside rear and casually poked the valve, this promptly blew across the driveway.. Thought better not poke the front ones. Took them back to the fitters (fortunately just round the corner) and they seem to have had a dodgy batch of valves a while back. I would have thought they could have contacted those that might be at risk. They did change all 4 for new ones for nothing. FL2 Metropolis, Loire Blue, ebony/ivory

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chicken george



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was the wheel and tyre hot/warm at this point? . heat may soften the valve stem At work
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Post #243284 2nd Dec 2014 3:59 pm
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taztastic



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Didnt feel hot, although I rmemeber looking at it and thinking they had fitted a short valve and then whoosh, followed by Censored Censored and more Censored .
No spare and a useless tim of foam, so one of the minions brought one of my other wheels, a trolley jack and a wheelbrace, all sorted now, garage were very apologetic, well I think they were, they're Banglamanians or something.

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Aero_383



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United Kingdom 2013 Freelander 2 TD4 XS Manual Ipanema Sand

Never seen that before. Shocked

Did the tyre remain inflated Taz ? Hard to tell from the pic.

Note to self. 70mph max.

Post #243310 2nd Dec 2014 6:10 pm
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