slobadoberbob
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Ok, it had to happen to me.... But I bet know one can beat this...
I came over to France on the Tunnel yesterday... being 45' long with the trailer is not easy to get the RV on the 'shuttle' but holding my breath I did it... loaded last as always with to euro vans ahead.. the whole carriage to myself..... time to get off come.
The doors open and I start up and roll forward I get half way through the doors and I hear a large hiss.. I roll a few more feet and it is hiss and nothing then hiss as the wheels rotate.
I though something wrong here then pop.. and a that is it. came to a halt. (I stopped dead - worried) then one big hiss.
I had blown my offside rear tyre ... but it is not on the outer wall of the tyre but a hole in the wall between the tyres (double back wheels). As I am hauling a 2,600 kgs loaded trailer I am now stuck... hazard lights on and a few flashed of the head lights .. got them running.
good job I am the last one in the train.. 20 minutes later we managed to get out on to the roadway.
Now what do I do? euro tunnel staff all done a bunk by now and I am sitting beside the cab of a very noisy loco. Question? do I call ADAC and can they get to the live side of the system? was I in France yet or the UK... (I passed the French sign on the way out? - afterwards)
I crawl very slowly.. hazard lights on from the tunnel to Euro Cite and head for the bus station where the motor homes park up. Boy that is some slow journey and long at 5 mph.
I turned the mobile on and called ADAC ... first time ever... Germany... hang on the phone number is for France.. anyway with a lady with some English I try to explain I need assistance to remove a tyre and put the spare on.
two calls and 1. 30 minutes and a breakdown truck arrives.. yes one of those little things... he stands there scratching his head... off he goes and 20 minutes late a much bigger truck... this one with an air compressor fitter.. he was trying to blow the tyre back on... (we only found the hole on the inside when we removed the wheel).. remember this is a breakdown truck not a tyre company. I wondered if I had caught the tyre on the curb in the train as there is not a lot of room for my yank.
Using my 10 ton bottle jack and my American stacking jacking pads we get the RV up off the ground... I had by now disconnected the trailer.. with my tools we managed between us to remove the true and put the spare on...
Now we hunt a new tyre in France.. shame as the tyre was only 10 months old and had done only 1,000 miles... The camp site this morning are trying to locate us a tyre.
Oh yes JIMS, light up tyre pressure units work.... I saw the light work as the tyre went down...
and yes ADAC worked and all it cost me was €20 drink to the chap that when that bit further to get me on the road... arrived at the site in rain and faced a set up late in to the evening.
Bob:Blush:
I came over to France on the Tunnel yesterday... being 45' long with the trailer is not easy to get the RV on the 'shuttle' but holding my breath I did it... loaded last as always with to euro vans ahead.. the whole carriage to myself..... time to get off come.
The doors open and I start up and roll forward I get half way through the doors and I hear a large hiss.. I roll a few more feet and it is hiss and nothing then hiss as the wheels rotate.
I though something wrong here then pop.. and a that is it. came to a halt. (I stopped dead - worried) then one big hiss.
I had blown my offside rear tyre ... but it is not on the outer wall of the tyre but a hole in the wall between the tyres (double back wheels). As I am hauling a 2,600 kgs loaded trailer I am now stuck... hazard lights on and a few flashed of the head lights .. got them running.
good job I am the last one in the train.. 20 minutes later we managed to get out on to the roadway.
Now what do I do? euro tunnel staff all done a bunk by now and I am sitting beside the cab of a very noisy loco. Question? do I call ADAC and can they get to the live side of the system? was I in France yet or the UK... (I passed the French sign on the way out? - afterwards)
I crawl very slowly.. hazard lights on from the tunnel to Euro Cite and head for the bus station where the motor homes park up. Boy that is some slow journey and long at 5 mph.
I turned the mobile on and called ADAC ... first time ever... Germany... hang on the phone number is for France.. anyway with a lady with some English I try to explain I need assistance to remove a tyre and put the spare on.
two calls and 1. 30 minutes and a breakdown truck arrives.. yes one of those little things... he stands there scratching his head... off he goes and 20 minutes late a much bigger truck... this one with an air compressor fitter.. he was trying to blow the tyre back on... (we only found the hole on the inside when we removed the wheel).. remember this is a breakdown truck not a tyre company. I wondered if I had caught the tyre on the curb in the train as there is not a lot of room for my yank.
Using my 10 ton bottle jack and my American stacking jacking pads we get the RV up off the ground... I had by now disconnected the trailer.. with my tools we managed between us to remove the true and put the spare on...
Now we hunt a new tyre in France.. shame as the tyre was only 10 months old and had done only 1,000 miles... The camp site this morning are trying to locate us a tyre.
Oh yes JIMS, light up tyre pressure units work.... I saw the light work as the tyre went down...
and yes ADAC worked and all it cost me was €20 drink to the chap that when that bit further to get me on the road... arrived at the site in rain and faced a set up late in to the evening.
Bob:Blush:
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