A couple of months back and just days after a puncture repair I was losing air on one of the rear tyres on my CLS. After a visit to the tyre shop it was found that the tyre wasn’t sealing against the wheel rim so a new tyre would be required. As they didn’t have one in stock I had no option but to get the tyre re fitted to allow me to drive home.
With the car at 15k and the tyres only half worn before fitting new tyres I tried that horrible stuff out of a can and to my surprise it worked. Just last week the same tyre began losing air again and today it was completely flat. This hadn’t happened before so I tried another can in the tyre to no avail.
On removing the wheel I’ve found that I have obviously hit a pothole (just my luck) as there is a bulge on the inner side of the tyre and the air was just going straight out.
Thinking i’m off the road ( no spare ) so unable to even drive to get two new tyres on Monday I thought why not try one off the SL just for the trip and it fits perfectly so having the SL helped out. It’s sitting on SORN at the moment so no problem there.
The CLS has now done 17k and the tyres still have 4.5mm left so I will hold onto the remaining good tyre just in case “lightning” strikes a third time. I’m keeping the car on the standard Pirelli P Zeros as I’ve never had any complaints with them.
With the car at 15k and the tyres only half worn before fitting new tyres I tried that horrible stuff out of a can and to my surprise it worked. Just last week the same tyre began losing air again and today it was completely flat. This hadn’t happened before so I tried another can in the tyre to no avail.
On removing the wheel I’ve found that I have obviously hit a pothole (just my luck) as there is a bulge on the inner side of the tyre and the air was just going straight out.
Thinking i’m off the road ( no spare ) so unable to even drive to get two new tyres on Monday I thought why not try one off the SL just for the trip and it fits perfectly so having the SL helped out. It’s sitting on SORN at the moment so no problem there.
The CLS has now done 17k and the tyres still have 4.5mm left so I will hold onto the remaining good tyre just in case “lightning” strikes a third time. I’m keeping the car on the standard Pirelli P Zeros as I’ve never had any complaints with them.