Per, I hope you not only got a compressor but also a pressurized can with a
kind of liquid rubber which you are expected to blow into your flat tire.
That works only sometimes, not always. If your tire has come away from the
steel wheel because you drove too long on the flat tire your compressor will
not help as all the air you pump into the tire escapes immediately. If you,
as happened to me, drive over a rather large bolt which causes a 1.5 inch
long cut in your tire the compressor doesn't help either.
I have no experience with tubed tires on spoke wheels but again I fear a
can and a compressor will only help with a very small puncture. Experience
anyone?
I personally will never accept a can + compressor in a new vehicle, I'll
insist to get an old-fashioned spare wheel.
Regards,
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432
2011/3/31 Per Schoerner <healeyguy@bredband.net>
> Hi
> Well, FWIW, I recently bought a new car. It doesn't have any spare wheel at
> all. Instead it has a little compressor. I have adopted the same principle
> on the Healey, bought a little compressor and using the extra space for
> luggage instead. Haven't needed any spare wheel for the four seasons I've
> used the 3000. And not for the Sprite either, for the eleven years I've had
> it.
>
> Per
>
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