rfowler

Does it ever happen to you, i am always away with work and sometimes the car is parked outside my house for like 1-2 weeks not driven and i get one of my tyres which always go's very low and noticed it this morning that it look like it was tottaly flat and the nearest petrol pump is like 5 miles or so away and most of the time the damn machine is not working and i have new 17" alloys.... Is there like a small machine which i can buy and keep in the house and use it to get the air pressure back in tyres and not worry about about getting to the petrol station. had a look on ebay but no luck.... any help will very helpfull. Thanks

Vegescoob

Plenty of small 12volt compressors out there cheap. However sounds like you have a slow puncture or a leaky tyre valve. Best go to a tyre place and get it checked out.

rfowler

will a small 12volt compressors do the trick mate.

Vegescoob

Possibly not if the tyre is so flat that the tyre bead is not now sealing to the wheel rim.For that you need the garage line or preferably go to tyre place. Can you not put spare on to get to tyre place?

Just remembered, another possibility if the wheel is alloy is that the wheel is porous. This happened on early Scoobs. I thought most got sorted under warranty.
I'd deffo get a tyre fitter to check it all out. Safety concern here.