I guess you could always tell the tire shop that the tire is really
screwed!  - moooan  :P!

At 15:28 10/18/98 -0700, Bj�rn wrote:
>A couple of days ago our 95 Passat TD had a hole in one of the front tires.
>It needed new tires anyway so I did my usual shopping around: "Oh this tire,
>it costs less at the other place", until I had a good deal (I got Michelin
>X1 195/65 14).
>
>I tried to pump up the tire, but the leak was too big to reach the tire
>dealer with air. Admittedly I was too lazy too get the spare out for the
>20min journey. Since the leak was on the side of the tread I came up with an
>idea of something i had never thought I would do: I screwed a short
>woodscrew into the hole in the tire. I pumped the tire up and it worked. I
>got safely to the tire dealer.
>
>Now I have another item to take along on those outback journeys with the
>Syncro, because you never know...
>
>cheers,
>
> 
>Bj�rn Ratjen
>
>Mill Bay, B.C. 
>
>1987 Syncro Est Alia (self camperized)
>1995 Passat TD
>(1982 Vanagon Diesel)
>1979 VW Bus (self- camperized)
>
>

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