Anyone getting tyre punctures on Barry Road?

[kpjigsaw]

We have just had our second flat tyre on our car in a week. We live on Barry Road and have heard that other people round here have been getting regular punctures. Has anyone else been experiencing this? If we can find out who else is having this problem we might be able to figure out who or what is causing it.

[Penguin68]

It may not be being 'caused' intentionally - but builders are notorious about not being careful with building materials - allowing nails etc. to lie in the street, so if there has been building or repair work going on locally a number of vehicles could have picked up punctures, effectively accidently. It's when valves are tampered with, or tyres slashed that you can be immediately concerned about intent. Additionally, and perhaps particularly relevant recently, pot-holes can cause tyre bursts, and many of the roads locally have suffered from frost/ snow damage which has raised the incidence of this problem.

[computedshorty]

?

[Mellors]

Yes! I have had two punctures on my bike tyres outside your house in as many weeks (its Mel) - I wondered if its the building works alongside?

Very, very annoying.

[SteveT]

Puncture complaints in Barry rd seemed to increase around the time the tyre bay at Turners was opened,

only a cynic would.

Put them together in the same sentence.

Purely coincidental they must have done market research, realized there is a higher proportion of punctures in the vicinity, so we must open a tyre bay, how fortunate that business seems to be flattening out.

[Chase Dulwit]

Interstingly, I live very close to the tyre place and have noticed a few, very long (new) nails nearby. However, I used to get punctures regularly and haven't had any since they opened up (tempting fate now). Although. I did have by car broken into and completely cleared out in Tyrell Rd directly opposite a couple of months ago.

[Chase Dulwit]

Sorry , the car break-in rant has nothing at all to do with the tyre place; I'm still bitter about it.