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Al
On Mar 31, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Jaap Aeckerlin wrote:
> 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 at 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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