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Tue 17 Apr 2007 21:20

Shocking Hire Car Tyre Pressures - RoyWolfey

My wife was given a Fiesta as a courtesy car while her own car is being repaired. It was supplied by a well known hire car company. I noticed that one of the tyres looked low on pressure. According the manual, when the car is not fully loaded, the tyre pressures should be 26PSI for the rears and 29PSI for the fronts. After checking, both fronts were at 37PSI, one of the rears was at 41PSI and the other rear at 6PSI. That's shocking in my opinion.

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Tue 17 Apr 2007 21:44

Shocking Hire Car Tyre Pressures - Imagos

I think you maybe a bit hasty in your judgement.

Rental car tyre pressures are generally set to 'fully laden'. Which means 4 passengers and/or luggage, which would explain the high readings.

6psi on one tyre obviously means a puncture so check the tyre for damage or nails etc and contact your rental office. At 6psi it must have looked completely flat so unlikely to be driven any distance on this without driver noticing? Whether it be your wife or rental company delivery driver.

A puncture/nail in tyre can happen anywhere.

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Tue 17 Apr 2007 22:13

Shocking Hire Car Tyre Pressures - pmh

Dont get too upset with them. A puncture may well be your responsibility once you have accepted the car, if the tyre comes off and is beyond repair it will cost you!

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pmh (was peter)

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Tue 17 Apr 2007 22:52

Shocking Hire Car Tyre Pressures - Hamsafar

I doubt anyone woul 'set' the pressure to 6psi, so somebody let it down ot it has popped.
Unfortunately, you are usually liable for tyres that popped during your hire period, when this happened to me, I just had to keep topping it up and again on the way to drop it off, (which is probably what previous hirers had done.

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