The first good laugh of the day, thnx ;D

Twice I've been in cars that have been on fire. With the second one, I was in the backseat with a window held up with sticky tape, so didn't want to try to wind it down in case it wouldn't stay up afterwards.

@@pineapplepenumbra Did you phone the be baw or the weo weo weo?

@@MrJohnny3shoes Neither. Once I was driving a car that I shared with a friend. Rather than change the battery, he had just wired up another battery to it. This was in an original Mini, when I was 18. His ex girlfriend was in the car and she freaked out as black smoke started coming through the (empty) rear speaker cones. The wiring had set far to oily rags that he had left in the boot (the guy was supposed to be a mechanic, working at a Jaguar garage at the time, and should have known better). I got out and put the fire out, but it took some persuading to get his ex back in the car. She kept on saying, "I'm gonna kill him! I'm gonna kill him!", as of course, the battery was in the boot and the fire was right near the petrol tank. The second time, I was hitching back from somewhere after a row with my then ex (we got back together a few months later) and got a lift with a couple of blokes who, as they pulled away, I realised were drunk. Fair enough the passenger looking over his shoulder at me as we moved off, but the driver was, too. Despite having walked a fair few miles already, I was still fuming, so didn't ask them to stop and drop me off, as any sensible person would do. The car had no full beam, no working windscreen wipers, the front left brake worked a bit, so every time the driver braked we pulled over to the left. The back window where I was was held up with sticky tape, and there was something wrong with the heating. They said they weren't going to drive drunk, but thought, "well, it's only a couple of miles home, we should be okaaay..." Now I don't know if it was whatever was wrong with the heating system, or a carelessly stubbed out cigarette, but the area in front of the gear lever burst into flame. I'm choking in the back, as I don't want to wind down the window, due to the sticky tape, but said, "pull over and I'll put the fire out for you." "No, don't worry about it." said the driver, bashing away at the flames, and, every time he did so, having an equal and opposite reaction with the other arm, so we weaved dramatically as he tried to put the fire out. To be fair it worked, they dropped me off by the M1 and I've no idea what happened to them after that.

@James Stewart on straight streches of road your not necessarily going to notice its corners bends and roundabouts where it will really show up.

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Carry a can of holts tyreweld puncture repair foam too £3.50 for any surprises.

@@marklittler784, only good for little punctures at reasonable speeds. Many cars now have a more professional version instead of a spare wheel now, & All the breakdown services hate them:- a cut, or going any more than a few yards on a flat, & the stuff’s useless, so the breakdown person has to remove your wheel, take it & you to the nearest tyre place, (late in the evening or weekend could be a journey and a half) or arrange emergency callout tyre fitters....

@@paulcollyer801 Yeah I have a spare wheel as well, but what if you get more than one tyre punctured, or its a stupid place to change the wheel a bad area or bad weather or a woman on her own, or your brace doesn't fit the nuts.

@@marklittler784, oh I defo get you, but it aint the best solution. As for woman on your own, the four women I have taught to drive are taught to change a tyre safely. (Late fiancée [non driving related death lol] and three daughters.)

That’s the reason for checking pressures cold. Check them warm & you’ll be under-inflating them. If I have one that’s low (not too low), I’ll inflate at the garage (if not at home with my lil plug in pump) to the pressure of the other tyres, not to the set pressure, so that it Is correctly inflated.

@James Stewart ?

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"Cold" generally means "air in the tyre has not been heated by the effect of friction on the tyre whilst you are driving" rather than "it's a nice sunny day".

@@peterturner8766 glad you said that, i did wonder what people would have thought about checking their tyres in summer... may be they would wait until the night when it is cooler

@James Stewart yes right, just as you leave home in your best bib and tucker, go check the tyre pressure and if required pump them up. I think that is an unreasonable suggestion for the private owner, commercial perhaps

I drove with a screw in the tire for a month, including a long trip, it lost 0,5 bar a week, looked for a puncture several times to no avail, only once I went to the tire shop I knew what happened- the head of the screw was gone so it was really hard to see from the outside, only air bubbles gave it away really.

All depends on where the screw is as to whether it’s a repair or replace job. I change my tyres at about 3mm normally so a screw at 4, meh, just replace anyway.

Yes plenty of applicable info relevant to this test 👍👍👍👍

My Zafira has the pressures in the menu, the light will come on for any tyre below 30, and a quick run through the menu shows which one, by displaying pressures.

Re Run Flats, years ago I was going to a test in a student's own car, and the "Run Flat" warning light came on. I asked if the steering felt odd at all, and at 70 mph she wrenched the wheel and said, "nope, it feels fine"! There was a problem with the warning light, the tyres were fine, and the examiner did go ahead with the test. She got 5 or 6 minors, but failed for rolling back on a hill. She passed seconds time about 4 weeks later with fewer minors.

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Flattery will get you nowhere. 😂😃😂😃😂😃

@@marklittler784, but philately Will get you stamps

I do it the other way I reduce the pressure to absorb pot holes.

Fairly certain not many are aware of the relationship between pressure and temperature, and the importance of checking tyre pressure when they are cold and allowing for ambient temperature changes.

@@marklittler784 hopefully not when running lower profile tyres 😶

@@_Steven_S Don't like low profile tyres I had a Mondeo the front ones needed renewing every few weeks.

Then how to measure tyre pressure? At a garage?

​@@artemkatelnytskyi Check them at the petrol station or buy a foot pump.

@@artemkatelnytskyi you can measure it yourself with a home pump, they mean the ones that are permanently attached. I've learned from experience never to use metal dust caps - top advice that it's a matter of if, not when those buggers get stuck and if you're not regularly checking pressures it'll happen at the worst time.

With metal dust caps really should be putting a little grease on the threads there if you'll not be removing them for months at a time, though to be fair, in that case it could be you're not checking the pressures often enough! Can't speak to the attachment of gauges, but any time (in particular dissimilar) metals are in contact a grease or copper slip would make life easier getting them apart. It's actually similar with carbon fibre into aluminium like on a bike but that's another story eh. 👍

I wouldn't use a pump to check pressure, many of them are way off (mine is 0,5 bar off...) you can get a calibrated pressure gauge for 5$ though, and that's what I use most of the time.

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I know it refers to more experienced drives who know their cars, but I completely agree. You can feel it over pot holes and speed bumps, and sometimes you can also notice the noise coming out from the suspension doesn't sound quite right. That's how I was able to tell I had a puncture.

You can only see the tire wall once it's way down, you only need a couple psi less for uneven wear etc. to happen.

Doesn't matter really, without additional leaks the air leaks out so slowly anyway. After 3 months I found 3 psi less in every tire. Still a good practice to check periodically, at least once a month I'd say, most people don't check ever unless you have a flat 🤣

I too have heard that Nitrogen leaks less. What confuses me is air is 80% nitrogen anyway..... (1st heard about it in an Air Crash Investigation...)

Yeah pumping up the pressure in the front tyres can make steering a lot easier AND new front tyres make steering far easier too.

Cornering is where an under inflated rear will stick out, especially with a load onboard.

@James Stewart i have a audi a4 2010 and it does tpms and it it shit on every car , a manometer will be more accurate , dont start me on the digital oil level crap . Not all new shiy is good shit , just shit for drivers that get stranded on the motorway because they rely on electronics rather than their eyes . Im sorry if that is you but its the truth .

@James Stewart, all good and well till the sensor jams:- you THINK you have oil, but what you actually have is s very expensive repair. Happened to one of our trucks.

He should of really driven the car on the day first with normal pressure then with reduced pressure to compare the difference and try a few roundabouts.

Me too, even though I drive trucks mainly.

It's hard as there are a lot of factors. The tracking could be off if there's uneven tire which which was mentioned in the comments. The camber of the road might cause the steering to edge to one side slightly etc etc. Only time I could tell my tire was low was the nice from it. Luckily pulled over before the tire when really hot and exploded and put the spare on 😁

Every week is not bad, good practice really. Every 2 weeks would be enough though imo.

@@piciu256 - I agree that’s enough 👍🏻

It depends on the make, model, engine size & tyre size.

Change a wheel - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyFa9iIycqaZY0.html

I have a cheap (£30) pump that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket. Saves that stress

He's on run flats though not really a car to do the test in and then there's the question of hardwall low profile tyres.

@@marklittler784 I just told my experience.

@@piciu256 Yeah that's the conclusion he should of come to too but he was on run flats 👍

Not enough unfortunately. It's scarry what I find when being given a different van at work. The lights that died; and the tyre(s) that go bald... overnight 😐

@RoseTintedWindscreen no I never tyre of it😂

That's a good one you tyre all your life only to have to retire.

@@marklittler784 yeah but the was no pressure to retire

@@neiltill7414 No let down there then.

You lot are having a good year with these puns.

How much air are they loosing over what timeframe? All of them, or some/one? How old are the tyres? On the sidewall look for DOT and 4 numbers. First two numbers are the week and the other two are the year of manufacture. What tread depth do they have left? Spray/paintbrush them all over with soapy water and look for bubbles, adding 5psi more may help if it's a slow leak. Remember to roll the car forward and check the tread area that was on the ground too.

@@_Steven_S Sorry missed this, all good now, after a 3rd trip to a different garage I have found the culprit ! A very large nail!

Great car to develop quick reactions to changes in direction. Had one & was better than any other driver at keeping the high sided vans at our depo in a straight line in strong winds lol. (Mine was actually pre-robin, a Regal (the car version of the Trotter’s Independent Traders van)

If you've got pressure sensors, rotating the tyres is a nightmare.

I believe you can for seriously underinflated, but it’s unlikely if the only fault. Get caught the next day or 10 with the same flat tyre.... especially by the same cop, expect no mercy lol..

i dont understand the relevance of your post. If you have a car that has traction control and it often activates then I need to examine your driving, same with ABS.

@@radishpea6615 I stopped on a quiet hill when it was snowing. My wheels kept spinning. Luckily I went back down the hill slowly and managed to get momentum to go over it. I feel traction control would've helped me

@@nadim2769 traction control may have got you up the hill but dont think it is that clever, you underestimate yourself. lets say you were revving your engine to 2,000 revs, you got wheel spin. lets say at 1,200 revs your car would have stalled but at 1,300 revs your car would have managed to get up the hill. Traction control would have just tried to lower the revs to 1,300... something you could have done. You still have the same grip between tyre and road surface with or without traction control. Bit like pulling away from the lights fast, you get wheel spin and traction control kicks in and lowers the revs, the driver could do that.

Ahhhh, young pups with all your gizmos. We didn’t even have PAS in the trucks! Thanks for making a happy man feel very old 😂😂

@@paulcollyer801 😂😂😂 I would struggle a lot with no power steering on my little yaris, never mind a truck! But the mk1 yaris is very basic, I don't have traction control or esp. I'm ok with that though, less things to go wrong!

It's because when you are learning, you are accompanied at all times. Insurance is calculated on statistics, so statistically you are far more likely to have an accident in the first year after passing than when you were learning!

Is it crazy light or are you getting psi mixed up with BAR?

@@PSNragglefraggle1 I don't think you could mix that up. 24 bar is about 350 psi😃

@@cyderman69 Not if he doesn't notice the decimal point too 🤷‍♂️

@@PSNragglefraggle1 True. I'm guessing that's probably the case.

*hears skater’s waltz*

Haha! Inflation!

It should state what psi your tyres need to be on the inside of your door. Buy a car pump and a pressure guage to keep in the boot so you're always ready. You can buy pressure gauges that are extremely easy to use. Then just make sure your psi is correct for all 4 tires (the back might be different to the front) Check your psi before a long journey or every month. Or even if you notice a tyre a little down and you're just curious.

@@rufusgreenleaf2466 thank you. I have my car for 6 months and wondered when I will have to pump air in it. I never tought it’s need to check monthly. I will do now, thanks again

@@starfury01jr It depends on what journeys you make daily. I use my car for work and food shopping mainly so unless i go over a pothole, i just keep an eye out. If they still look pumped then i'm ok. It's worth checking if you have never checked though, i didn't realise i had to actually take air out of my drivers side as i was several psi over the recommended for my vehicle. So its worth to check now just to make sure you have them right. I wouldn't worry about checking every month unless you go over potholes or drive all day.

@@rufusgreenleaf2466 thanks I will .

Won't pull when braking, will pull when driving straight though.

The catch is he's on run flat tyres which I don't think is really the ones to use on this test.

@James Stewart If you can't tell you've got a puncture, then you probably shouldn't be driving. I had a nail in my tyre, I knew I had a nail in my tyre literally 10 seconds after it went in, even inside a well insulated car...... A faint "tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick" increasing with speed, very much gives it away. There are very few circumstances where a warning light is likely to come on in time to save you from a blowout. Ashley touches on this point, you should know when something is not right.

Yeah because that is realistic for people for example doing shorter journeys to work and back. My car tells me if they are getting low

I'd say every 2 weeks is enough, the issue is that most people don't ever check 🤣

@@piciu256 true enough, I do our car twice a month, something like that or before a particularly long or tricky trip. My mum's friend, I cleaned her car as it was here and I had the pressure washer out, I asked her when they were last checked and she goes "oh well the garage do it once a year at the MOT" 😰😳😱😅