Sunday, January 17, 2010

First puncture

The rear left tyre suffered a puncture after a stray hard spring pierced through the inner side wall. I was hearing a weird spring sound from the left side during night drive (very silent) Thought it was from the rear brake drum and wanted to check it myself and removed the rear tyre. Then i found this stuck to the tyre:


The nearby local tire repair guy fixed the puncture, but its loosing pressure rather quickly nowadays.

It was the first puncture for the Michelins after completing one year and 5k kms.

Rear seat rattle solved


Solved the loud rattle that was coming from the rear sire at very slow speeds (half clutch vibration). It was rather difficult to find the source of the noise. Thought it was the parcel tray, door handles, etc... Could reproduce it finally by thumping on the rear seat back side. Unlocked the seat flip down, and saw there was some insulation tape wound on the lock stud and it was torn. Looks like it came from the factory itself or the TVS guys did some decent PDI/fix. Took the old tape off and wound 8-10 turns on the stud.

The rattle noise disappeared from then on!