Today has been one of those days, I narrowly missed a cat and ploughed straight into the curb while driving.
“I was fine the cat was fine even the car seemed fine”
Until I drove about 30 meter’s around the corner outside of Kwiksave and the steering then began to feel strange. I jumped out of the car to notice my front tyre (the side I had hit the curb on) was severely deflated. Well I didn’t know what to do, should I drive or get out and fix the bleeding thing. What to do it situations like these, well phone your Dad, Dads always know what to do. He informed me that being so close to my Nanna’s house just take it really slow and fix it once I get there. Once I was there she was out typical, I really should of taken more noticed I was told that very morning by my mam was taking her to Sunderland.
There was only one thing for it, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work. I have never really replaced a tire before but here are some helpful tips I found out along the way. The first thing is to loosen the bolts while the tire is on the floor, not completely off btw (they should be slack). The reason you do it on the floor is that the tire just keeps spinning if you do it while its on the jack (common sense i know). The second thing you need to be strong to undo the bolts, really strong for me that lasted the longest in terms of time. My back is a little sore, it seemed like the stinking things were glued on. I never thought about WD40 but it might of helped if I had it.
Another thing if I hadn’t made it clearly already, the cat ran out, I swerved away hitting the curb, these weren’t two separate instances.Stinking cat I hope your happy your still alive. If there was another car behind, you would have been cat chow mein. Its not the cats fault its the councils who places the road island things in them places anyway, especially on Harton lane there’s 2, 10 foot away from each other.
Thats about it, brand spanking new front wheel on the thing now.
-Kyle