Tyron bands - are they really there?
When we bought our caravan 5 years ago, one of the extras we specified was Tyron bands.
Now the tyres have reached have reached 5 years old, I decided it was time to renew them, so made arrangements for a mobile tyre fitter to come and change the tyres, and he arrived to do that last Friday. I had told his head office about Tyron bands being
fitted, and repeated that information to the tyre fitter as we carried the caravan wheels to his van. "No problem" he said.
I stayed and watched as he began to remove the tyre from the first wheel, not only to be sociable, but also out of interest to see what a Tyron band looked like, as I have never actually seen one.
I still haven't achieved that aim, because as the first tyre was removed, the fitter told me "sorry sir, but there's no band in here!". Needless to say, there wasn't one in the other wheel either.
The fitter told me mine was the second caravan that week whose owner had been told Tyrons had been fitted, and like me, the other owner had paid for the long allen key "toolkit" at the time of the bands' purchase, and this was the only piece of Tyron equipment
actually supplied.
It makes it an extremely expensive allen key, and I wonder how many other owners are travelling around believing their vans have these "runflat" devices inside their tyres, where in fact all that's there is fresh air!