Tyron Bands abroad
This story happened on: 11/04/2012
Has anyone else had problems with small French garages in rural France with regard to Tyron Bands?
On recent holidays to France, we have had Tyron bands fitted on our tyres, which have "saved" us on 2 occasions that we have been unfortunate to have had blowouts. Despite the Tyron bands instructions being in French as well as English, we have found it hard to make the French understand that although it is good practice safety wise, it isn't compulsory to have the bands fitted. On both occasions my husband manually removed the Tyron band following the puncture as the garages didn't have a machine to do this. On both occasions we did have independent travel/breakdown assistance. Eventually, the garages reluctantly replaced the punctured tyre and we were able to continue on our journey/holiday.
Ardsboy11
Caravanner