Tyre seleant?

Yourmum90 · Post by **Yourmum90** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:33 pm

on the new GTi, you get a compressor and seleant, any ideas how to use it, i understand that you remove the valve on your broken tyre sqeeze the seleant in and then blow the tyre up but how do you remove the valve?

if anyone has a site or pictures on doing this please link.

andy947 · Post by **andy947** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:28 pm

Here's a completely random idea. . . .

Read the owners manual . . . .

Yourmum90 · Post by **Yourmum90** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:55 pm

yeah i have but it does not really tell you how to take the valve from your punctured tyre out

AndyGTi · Post by **AndyGTi** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:40 pm

In the instructions Book 3.2 Page 76 It talks about screwing the the valve insert into the tyre valve using the valve insert extractor.

I would suggest that you use the valve insert extractor (item 1 on Fig 28 ) to remove it in the first place

Hope that helps

I asked about spare tyre when I was ordering mine and Salesman thought it would be quite expensive to fit.... but when I picked it up. Under the carpet mat was a spare tyre. Result!! Salesman just looked blankly. So doubly bit of result

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:44 pm

A hate not havin a spare tyre! Was very suprised when there wasnt one there! Just a cheap alternative to save money i take it

Jeff GTi · Post by **Jeff GTi** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:01 am

thats right yeah, i believe a space saver is about Â£50 or a full size steel is about Â£75 quid

so im on the look out for one off a golf gti and get my mate to swap my a tyre that suits mine as he has a tyre place

Yourmum90 · Post by **Yourmum90** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:51 am

i think it is to save weight more than money tbh, becuase the compressor and tyre seleant costs about Â£130 from dealer