Tyre Trouble...

Photo by me

Today was going to be a work filled day, a day to finally complete my law assignment but it wasn't meant to be. At 7am it was brought my attention that my little Fiat Punto (Perry) had suffered an injury...again.

In eight months of owning the car I've needed a new clutch and handbrake (down to the previous owner). I've had to jump start it God knows how many times (I refuse to buy a new battery until I'm stranded at the side of the M6) and my nearside front wheel makes a strange noise when I turn right. But then again, it's a 53 plate, only suffers in the cold and gets me where I want to be (most of the time) when I want to be there. And aside from those few minor problems, he hasn't let me down. I've never found myself in the middle of nowhere with no way of getting home...the battery only seems to pack in on my drive so I can't really complain.

No problems have arose since Christmas and I was beginning to think Perry had started to like me again...I suppose I can't really blame a flat tyre on him. If anything, it's Continental's fault.

I finally got to make use of my AA membership because in all honesty, changing a tyre is something I had no intention of doing at 7am. The guy (Paul) arrived, jacked Perry up and popped his space saver on - being limited to 50mph is my one of my worst nightmares. Now all I had to do was take a trip down to Kwik-Fit in St Helens and get some new rubber.

Paul (Mr AA man) said a repair would be good enough as there was no visible damage to the tyre but my tyre expert of a boyfriend suggested a new tyre would be better. Not wanting to spend £50 on something I knew I'd only puncture again I opted for a repair but that's not what I ended up with...

Fast forward to now and Perry is sat on the drive again smiling away (or at least he would be if you could) with the same tyre he had before...but no repair.

Turns out it wasn't a puncture after all...dodgy valve. Mr Kwik Fit (I forget his name) didn't even charge me for it - apparently I've bought tyres from there before. How when it's my first car I don't know but he insisted I had it on the house.

All in all, a good day so far. And I've even managed to get a little work done (:

This post was created by Emma Rigby. You can contact Emma on erigby@uclan.ac.uk