A puncture repair on a Tesla car
A new customer called into Hometyre to ask us to attend to his Tesla Model 3 as he had a flat tyre. He needed the car doing immediately as he was going out on a business trip that afternoon.
Normally we would always bring a tyre with us in-case the tyre was damaged internally or the object in the tyre was in an un-repairable area. We were not able to get a Tesla tyre at such short notice, so we decided to go and see if we could repair the tyre.
I arrived at the customers home and had him unlock the car, I then jacked it up and removed the wheel. After a check I found a screw in the center of the tread, I removed the tyre from the wheel rim and checked the tyre for damage. It all looked OK, so I proceeded and did a High performance puncture repair to the tyre.
Once completed the tyre was put back on the rim, inflated to the correct pressure and the wheel was then balanced before fitting it back on the car. The wheel nuts were torqued to the correct setting for this car (175Nm) it was then lowered and the jack removed.
I then checked the tyre pressures in all of the tyres, adjusted them to the correct pressures, then checked the TPMS sensors in all of the wheels to ensure they were working correctly. Finally I completed then tyre inspection report and invoice before taking a payment from the customer using our on board card payment machine.
For anyone owning a fully electric car, you need to buy tyres that are designed for use on electric cars. These tyres can cope with the high torques that electric vehicles produce, if you were to fit ordinary tyres to an electric vehicle they would not last long.
For further information check out the Hometyre website about Electric cars by clicking here or give us a call on 03334445454.
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