Thread: I can't work out why my tyre is going flat - help?

Originally Posted by CraigE

Have you checked for a nail??
Upset any neighbours that might be letting the air out??

Who sir, me sir?
All clean at my place, got a couple of old stereo speakers nailed to a plank, set on a pram axle. The boys job is to make sure there are no nasties in the yard. The landlord drives B-Doubles interstate, no nails, screws, bits of wire allowed.

Neighbors? Not within shooting distance. Anymore
The local bloke told me not to any more. Apparently it scares people.

This relates back to some trouble we all had locally with city shooters, and holes in sheds and house walls. Shoot too close to me, I shoot back. Don't blame me, blame the military training I received in order to protect this country. Now the law says I'm not allowed to play with bang sticks. Me.

Shorty.

While working at a tyre joint a bloke drove in in a series 2 shorty with a bald trojen tyre on a split rim and asked if I could repair it.

Not only was it bald, it had a similar whole in it of which he had rivited and siliconed a tin patch over and then put a tube in.

I sold him 5 s/h tyres and spent the next 4 hours trying to change them.

He said he only used it on their flower farm but as it was still rego'd I thought he may have been crapping me.

We kept that tyre and put it on the wall of shame.

Originally Posted by mcrover

While working at a tyre joint a bloke drove in in a series 2 shorty with a bald trojen tyre on a split rim and asked if I could repair it.

Not only was it bald, it had a similar whole in it of which he had rivited and siliconed a tin patch over and then put a tube in.

I sold him 5 s/h tyres and spent the next 4 hours trying to change them.

He said he only used it on their flower farm but as it was still rego'd I thought he may have been crapping me.

We kept that tyre and put it on the wall of shame.

Seen some of the same thing, working for Banglop in the Alice.
I can cope, just, with gaitors and gutter bolts in the old farm tractors tyres, but, that one takes the cake, stand and all.

Shorty.

Does anyone know a good place in Brisbane to get a new General Grabber?

Anyone got one lying around they want to get rid of?

I have tyres on my trailer and also on my boat trailer that have slow leaks , on NEW tyres, I took the boat whel in to be repaired and wasn't charged for the repair, the tyre place admitted they had not cleaned the alloy properly before fitting hence the seal was no good on the bead.
Maybe you have a sloppy tyre fitter too

I saw a Landie tyre like that when I wore a green uniform and saluted dimmer people. This was off a SWB that an officer had on loan. The transport W.O. tore up this guys provisional licence for "thrashing a vehicle" and wouldnt even provide a lift back to the barracks for him .
I then got the job of replacing it. I found a tomahawk head right inside the tyre and it was pretty sharp too.
The boss did'nt give him his licence back though.

I found Grabbers today from dogtyred at strathpine. I think they were about $260. However they were grabber at2, which is different to the at that is fitted.

He recommended some Maxxis tyres that he thought were pretty good. Apparently about $230 each. He said they were 3ply sidewalls instead of 2ply that the grabbers are.

Originally Posted by lowbox

Have a look through the viewing port on the side - you can sometimes see where the hole is....

ROFLMAO !!!!