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Hi,
what I want to know is, how do you recognise if the back tyre in your car has a slow puncture during the week?
Case in point, and a little back story. I park on the road outside my building and take the car to work daily mostly. However on Friday I had an inspection, so my Baleno remained parked. Next day I had to leave at 5.30 am to go to Aamby Valley near Lonavala. I was running late and badly sleep deprived from the previous day but had planned for this- I was to pickup my driver a few km down from my place. On the way I nearly had an accident when overtaking a bus on the left turn- my car understeered mid corner, something I hadnt experienced in the Baleno before, and I got too close to the bus for comfort. I was carrying more speed in that corner but nothing out of the ordinary and I put this down to sleep deprivation Subsequent let my driver drive. I got back into the driver seat once we reached the ghats after having got a bit more rest and some coffee (I cant sleep once the sunlight hits the eyes). The road to Amby has a lot of sharp u turns, some that would rise the car height in a couple of car lengths and I kept feeling the car understeer all the way. Mostly on the right turns but sometimes on the left turns also. The car just wouldnt hold the lane and I finally resorted to the NFS Porshe method of driving- braking and turning in advance and the accelerating up the slope, often in the opposite lane. There wasnt any traffic and I was careful obviously not to try this on blind corners. On the way back the driver confirmed the same understeer and we thought it may be the way this car handles on the ghats- it was the 1st time we had driven them in any car.
The car didnt get driven on Sunday and driving in the city on Monday morning, I noticed the car was driving really soft, something I feel when the pressure has dropped even 1 or 2 psi. So we topped it off at a local garage. One tyre reported 15psi! We know that garage has a miscalibrated gauge but figured temporary overinflation would be better than underinflation, so we checked in the evening at our regular pump. All tyres were 37psi but that one tyre was 31psi. We set all to 29psi. We drove Tuesday without any issues though we didnt really check the tyres. Now Wednesday morning the washing guy tells that one tyre is flat. I checked, it still had air but was deflated. The local puncture shop informed of side wall issue that was causing a leak and also retrieved one nail from the channels in between the threads. We are still not sure if that was accidental or someone had done it intentionally
So my question is, did this leaking tyre cause the issue we had in the ghats? I mean, I have thrown the car around corners a bit when I am in a hurry or pissed at someone but its rolled a lot to one side and never understeered. I do have TPMS but we havent used it for some time now and I am wondering whether to install it (its bar unit, not psi so I keep getting nuisance alarm due to the least count issue)
Ameyam
what I want to know is, how do you recognise if the back tyre in your car has a slow puncture during the week?
Case in point, and a little back story. I park on the road outside my building and take the car to work daily mostly. However on Friday I had an inspection, so my Baleno remained parked. Next day I had to leave at 5.30 am to go to Aamby Valley near Lonavala. I was running late and badly sleep deprived from the previous day but had planned for this- I was to pickup my driver a few km down from my place. On the way I nearly had an accident when overtaking a bus on the left turn- my car understeered mid corner, something I hadnt experienced in the Baleno before, and I got too close to the bus for comfort. I was carrying more speed in that corner but nothing out of the ordinary and I put this down to sleep deprivation Subsequent let my driver drive. I got back into the driver seat once we reached the ghats after having got a bit more rest and some coffee (I cant sleep once the sunlight hits the eyes). The road to Amby has a lot of sharp u turns, some that would rise the car height in a couple of car lengths and I kept feeling the car understeer all the way. Mostly on the right turns but sometimes on the left turns also. The car just wouldnt hold the lane and I finally resorted to the NFS Porshe method of driving- braking and turning in advance and the accelerating up the slope, often in the opposite lane. There wasnt any traffic and I was careful obviously not to try this on blind corners. On the way back the driver confirmed the same understeer and we thought it may be the way this car handles on the ghats- it was the 1st time we had driven them in any car.
The car didnt get driven on Sunday and driving in the city on Monday morning, I noticed the car was driving really soft, something I feel when the pressure has dropped even 1 or 2 psi. So we topped it off at a local garage. One tyre reported 15psi! We know that garage has a miscalibrated gauge but figured temporary overinflation would be better than underinflation, so we checked in the evening at our regular pump. All tyres were 37psi but that one tyre was 31psi. We set all to 29psi. We drove Tuesday without any issues though we didnt really check the tyres. Now Wednesday morning the washing guy tells that one tyre is flat. I checked, it still had air but was deflated. The local puncture shop informed of side wall issue that was causing a leak and also retrieved one nail from the channels in between the threads. We are still not sure if that was accidental or someone had done it intentionally
So my question is, did this leaking tyre cause the issue we had in the ghats? I mean, I have thrown the car around corners a bit when I am in a hurry or pissed at someone but its rolled a lot to one side and never understeered. I do have TPMS but we havent used it for some time now and I am wondering whether to install it (its bar unit, not psi so I keep getting nuisance alarm due to the least count issue)
Ameyam