Topic: Moments that make you feel inadequate

[Malc.]

I got a call from the M-I-L asking me to ring the wife as she's pulled over to the side of a road with a puncture. Why the wife didn't phone me I don't know but sure enough, I ring and the wife confirms this along with her location. Fortunately it was not to far, so off I gallop like a knight in shinning armour to rescue my fair maiden in distress.
 
 I arrive to find the flat tyre and the wife looking fed up. "Fear not" I say in a bold voice, "we'll have this sorted in no time".
 
 Well from that point onward, it all started turning into a fiasco. She'd been complaining previously about a wet floor in the rear passenger foot well. Didn't know why at the time but it soon becomes apparent that, rain was collecting in the spare wheel well, some how. So now picture this, a rusty spare wheel sitting in a pool of water and rusted fast the wheel securing pin! Eventually, I manage to get this loose and reveal the spare and the jack.
 
 I  then set about to loosen the wheel nuts and jack the car up. All of this done majestically in true hero fashion. Off come the wheel nuts and finally the ..... and finally the ......and finally the.... bugger, the wheel won't come off. Not wishing to cause any alarm to my fair maiden, I ponder quietly as to what to do before exclaiming, "I shall give it a kick"! Still nothing, so I kick some more.
 
 Starting to loose my cool exterior I suggest to the wife "perhaps if you knock on that chaps door, he might offer you a hammer". She returns with said tool and hands it too me. I set about in all manor of ways, trying to 'hammer' some sense into the situation, but only managing to annoy the neighbourhood with clanging.
 
 Eventually I concede that despite might bravest and best efforts, I shall not be her saviour presently. Knowing a tyre bay is just down the road, I set off to ask if a crisp

[peterandjen]

I know how you feel, a year ago my van got a punctured tyre, first thing in the morning i needed it for work and noticed it, " no problem ill change the wheel" jacked it up, undone the nuts and the wheel was rusted solid onto the hub, out comes the lump hammer and 2 hours of whacking and a can of wd40 the wheels still stuck.
Phoned the gaffer and he sends out the local tyre specialist who then helps me tag team the wheel with a heavier lump hammer and more wd40 for another half an hour, when it finally fell off.
Sometimes life sends us little tests lol.

[Malc.]

I had the same thing with my Volvo too, only that was only 6 months old at the time. what made it even worse was that I even struggled to loosen the wheel nuts. I have no idea who done them up, but they were far too tight.

With it being a popular problem, you'd think manufacturers would rectify it. I can under stand why some hubs are the way they are but the Ford Focus my wife drives, has studs not bolts.

[peterandjen]

Alloy wheels are the worst for it, they get like a verdigris around the nuts, also kwikfit and the like just love using morons who cant be arsed to use a torque wrench and instead just over tighten everything with an air gun.
Its like spark plugs 90% of people over tighten them too.

[Domi]

That gave me a chuckle, Axe ;D Now you know how I feel every time I have to ask my hubby to open a jar for me lol

[commis]

Hi

Once had a call from a guy who had a flat on his new 911 asking if I could take over a spider. Well the devil got the better of me, and I got two young women to go to his rescue. Yes his face was a picture when he finally arrived, his ego dented and of course every one else new about the joke.

Regards

[Vindaloo-crazy]

I recently called out a bloke to have a look at my electric oven, thinking the element to have blown. He looked at the dials and clicked the alarm button off, the oven worked.
Ahem, boy was my face red. Luckily he didn't charge me; he more than likely felt sorry for me. :

[Malc.]

Sometimes the most obvious solutions just can not be seen. Even if they are staring you in the face.

What frustrated me the most was spending 40 minutes trying to remove the wheel, gettign covered in all kinds of dirt, only to resort to 2 minutes of pumping the tyre up!

[Vindaloo-crazy]

It's all part of that baffling thing called life, if I'd been told before I signed up I would've asked for my money back!