I had forgotten...
Sep. 11th, 2008 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyoor_excuse...how hard it is to get hold of 145R14 tyres. This obscure size happens to be that of the Morris Minor *AND* the DAF 44. Interestingly, it's also the size of the Lupo 3L, but that doesn't seem to have helped our cause a great deal, in so far as the 3L didn't sell that well, and thus the Bridgestone magic tyres that fit it are apparently on back order.
I've now rung every tyreplace in the Slough phonebook, of which one has come back claiming that Continental make a 145R14 tyre (I'm not convinced, I've never heard of these, and last time this 'oh, we can get such-and-such-a-brand' happened I got there and that garage'd ordered the wrong size); and most of which have gone "we can't get them". My best option, as it stands, is to order them from Bull Motif (a moggie specialist) and get them fitted locally, a painfully expensive process (well, in all honesty, compared to most modern cars, no, it's really cheap, but to me it seems painfully expensive), but marginally cheaper than the best local quote so far.
It's frustrating, the DAF persists in this state of 'so near, yet so far'. The tyres currently fitted I'll take around the town in the dry, gently, but the motorway is definately out as the newest dates from 1994. The oldest, I suspect, is late 70's (on the spare) and the two rear tyres are probably early 80's as they have lack date codes and are a size that doesn't exist at *all* anymore...
Still, it's been fun pootling around Slough in the newly taxed DAF. And it gives poor old Rebecca a break from being the only car in the family. Anyhow, I've astonishingly failed to get any work done this morning, so I'm going to craft a quick e-mail filled with questions to (a) My sister and (b) the hotel where we're getting civilised, and then I shall away with the fairies to lunch then work :)
(As a side point, Cory Doctorow just replied to my last post. How the hell did he *know* I'd written about Little Brother, behind a cut tag on my obscure journal?! The world is a strange strange place. I should have mentioned that I'd recommended it to Terry (via Sherry) for her to use as a resource in training teachers, but I forgot).
I've now rung every tyreplace in the Slough phonebook, of which one has come back claiming that Continental make a 145R14 tyre (I'm not convinced, I've never heard of these, and last time this 'oh, we can get such-and-such-a-brand' happened I got there and that garage'd ordered the wrong size); and most of which have gone "we can't get them". My best option, as it stands, is to order them from Bull Motif (a moggie specialist) and get them fitted locally, a painfully expensive process (well, in all honesty, compared to most modern cars, no, it's really cheap, but to me it seems painfully expensive), but marginally cheaper than the best local quote so far.
It's frustrating, the DAF persists in this state of 'so near, yet so far'. The tyres currently fitted I'll take around the town in the dry, gently, but the motorway is definately out as the newest dates from 1994. The oldest, I suspect, is late 70's (on the spare) and the two rear tyres are probably early 80's as they have lack date codes and are a size that doesn't exist at *all* anymore...
Still, it's been fun pootling around Slough in the newly taxed DAF. And it gives poor old Rebecca a break from being the only car in the family. Anyhow, I've astonishingly failed to get any work done this morning, so I'm going to craft a quick e-mail filled with questions to (a) My sister and (b) the hotel where we're getting civilised, and then I shall away with the fairies to lunch then work :)
(As a side point, Cory Doctorow just replied to my last post. How the hell did he *know* I'd written about Little Brother, behind a cut tag on my obscure journal?! The world is a strange strange place. I should have mentioned that I'd recommended it to Terry (via Sherry) for her to use as a resource in training teachers, but I forgot).
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Date: 2008-09-11 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 10:17 am (UTC)actually i thought i remembered someone on the forum saying that they don't actually make bridgestones any more... that all the ones now on shelves are old stock... ring any bells? perhaps I'm talking about another make.
I managed to get that brand aupickup recommends, via my local tyre fitters - cheapo but apparently ok - Nankang? something like that. Took off the wheels and took them in to the fitters, so that they couldn't screw up the torquing of the wheel nuts when replacing the wheels.
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Date: 2008-09-11 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 10:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 10:38 am (UTC)I used to have trouble with the Alfasud (high performance on 13" rims), but 13" seems to be back in fashion now with the superminis and they're everywhere again.
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Date: 2008-09-11 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 06:18 pm (UTC)O_O wow, that *is* interesting! I shall go look!
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Date: 2008-09-11 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 08:49 pm (UTC)The Bridgestones are alledgedly on back order, so I don't know if they're knocking out batches of 'em now and then or if they're gonna stop.
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Date: 2008-09-11 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-11 08:51 pm (UTC)I've never heard of 12" tyres, unless they're Mini ones... which is a bit odd...