We got home and I began taking the metal dust-caps off the tyres when I sighted the culprit: a nail in the front tyre and the pressure was 23.5 - down from 30.
Without undue delay - no procrastination - I headed for my pals at Gilnahirk Tyres in Belfast. There was a queue so I waited patiently. They charged £7.50 for the service. I noticed that the young chap had fitted a plastic dust-cap on the tyre instead of my metal one, so I pointed this out. They appear to have lost the original one; however I got a brand-new identical one which was even better.
HTF have you managed to keep the metal dustcaps? I've had 3 Beemers and Tara has a Mini - in all cases, all four sets of metal dustcaps were nicked within a week.
ReplyDeleteWill be taking delivery of the new motor shortly (if I can persuade them to release it). Lets see how long they last this time!
They were nicked from a 318i I had in the nineties.
ReplyDeleteI endeavour to keep a beady eye on the present ones! :-)
Tim
Ah, Maldives blue - a great colour for the Z4 ... don't know why they dropped it, when they have several shades of boring silver ... I chose Phoenix Yellow for my Z4 coupe, but if Maldives Blue had still been available, I'd probably gone for that instead.
ReplyDeleteBTW, £7.50 for a repair to a run-flat is very good - I was unlucky and got a nail in the side wall of one of mine ... £250ish for a new tyre :-( I'm seriously thinking of replacing the RFTs with traditional tyres when the tread has gone - pop a can of tyre sealant & a compressor in the boot, and that should do until I can get a new tyre. At half the price of RFTs, plus a smoother ride, there are a lot of people ditching their RFTs. A service guy at Bavarian even admitted as much, although he was quick to point out that they wouldn't swap them for me ...
Neil, many thanks for that; food for thought. I imagine you could get tyre sealant on Ebay or anywhere else?
ReplyDeleteWould that make the run-flat indicator redundant?
Tim