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December 1, 2016

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‘Voetsek’ to no spare wheel Experience shows the European cost­cutting with no spare tyres puts families at risk in Msanzi ALWYN VILJOEN DRIVERS of cars without a prop­ er spare wheel are warned to go nowhere further than the out­ skirts of town this festive season. For potholes and bent rims are realities on our road, and this year have seen three of your regu­ lar motoring correspondents fuming at the censored Eurocen­ tric censored penny­pinching censored committee who thought it would be okay to send cars to South Africa without a spare tyre. The lack of this quick fix when (not if) a pothole bends the rim beyond the abilities of the run­ flat tyre to cope is downright dangerous and, dare we say, beg­ ging for class action litigation against the companies in ques­ tion. Sure, on paper, all the marques who currently send people out

without a spare tyre instead have insurance scams schemes in place for when flat tyres happen. The idea is you just call the emer­ gency number, and a wheel or flatbed truck will be sent. Readers tell us on tar, this al­ ways takes most of a dark and stormy night in dangerous pla­ ces, as both your hardworking Wheels car correspondents and radio hosts, Brian Bassett and Si­ bonelo Myeni, can also testify. In Bassett’s case the danger was posed by wildlife, as he had a flat tyre on a D road en route to a game lodge. In Myeni’s case, the danger came from potholes, trucks pass­ ing at speed on a dark, rural road with no emergency lane. “A pothole incident at 4.30 pm, which usually means 30 minutes of inconvenience, in my BMW meant I only got home 10 hours later.

If your car was sold to you without a full­size spare wheel, then get one and keep it in the boot, with wheel spanner and a lift. Yes, it will take a quarter of the boot space and costs a lot, but it will rescue you from spending the night next to a dangerous road in the middle of nowhere. PHOTO: ALWYN VILJOEN “First On Call took three hours to arrive — with the wrong tyre. Then the On Call woman took almost an hour to approve a flatbed tow truck, which took

two hours to travel 45 km. Then we went to Pietermaritzburg on­ ly to be told the tyre we could use was in Durban — where the On Call person was attending to an­

other call. When he arrived with a biscuit tyre at midnight, this needed to be pumped. “I finally completed the jour­ ney at 50 km/h. Voetsek to run­ flat tyres and cars with no spare wheel!” Which is why Wheels recom­ mends that anyone in a late mod­ el Beemer, Audi and Merc, as well as anyone in a car fitted with those useless inflater kits, spend the money and get themselves a spare rim and tyre, a jack and a wheel spanner. And then practise removing a tyre at home. In my case, this led to the discovery that my spare wheel’s bolts are so rusted that I would never have been able to remove them in the dark of night. But the best advice for SA’s roads is to get five tyres with sidewalls that measure at least 60% of the tyre’s width. These size tyres can handle potholes.

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SIBONELO MYENI Vuka radio host

‘A pothole incident at 4.30 pm, which usually means 30 minutes of inconvenience, in my BMW meant I only got home 10 hours later.’

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