Warning

[Big Dog]

Ever had one of those days?

Talk the mrs into going for a night ride down to Pukekohe instead of taking the car. All good right?

Wrong

Exactly in the middle of nowhere 2 kms from the motor way (Drury), 4 kms from the next servo at Paerata, the flashing valve cap I bought to make the mrs feel better about me driving at night sucks the valve out of the rim .
I had previously been warned by superbike magazine that these do this at high speed eg 100mph as quoted by them.
Nope only need to do 100kmph for a prolonged period.
Which brings me to my I paid $40 for a "safety device" that could have killed us had i not been doing 60kmph at the time it chose to spit the dummy

Would certainly never recommend these to anyone I like!
I would like to warn against these sabatours though.
Does any one else have any tales of "saftey equipment goes bad?"

Perhaps we should start a list of products to black list if they are in fact dangerous?

[Motu]

Yeah - mobile phones!!!

I bought my mobile phone for emergency use only - so I could ring for help if things went wrong at the wrong time.

But I've found they are handy things and am using it more often.What has got me very annoyed is that whenever I ring my broker to check how my stock is doing - some bloody motorcycle pulls out and runs into me! I'm getting pissed off with this - my no claims bonus is out the window...and I really hate driving the panelbeaters loaners - they are out of date and so icky,like,everyone KNOWS my car is being fixed y'know,it's just SO embarrassing!

BAN THE BUGGERS!!!!

[Duke of Rogan]

flashing valve cap?

never seen one of these, but they sound more like a gimic than a saftey device, reminds me of those "spokey-dokies" you could get for your BMX when I was a kid...

[Nouseforaname]

haha spokey dokey's..... ive got them on my BMX bike right now, the are all bright and stuff and they kickass..... the only downside is the fact that i have to actually ride the BMX, instead of my road bike. Cant wait for Dec 23rd :-)

[wkid_one]

I see a chopper flag in Nouse's future

[NZred]

(Big Dog)

If they are sold as a safty device !! 

Then Road Transport , OSH and  the cunsumer law people will be interested in there produce.

Comes under the heading of,...  safty,.. and " fit for intended the purpose" kinda stuff.

[Coldkiwi]

thanks for the warning... I was thinking about getting some of those but I'll cross them off my list for sure.

[Big Dog]

Originally posted by NZred
(Big Dog)

If they are sold as a safty device !! 

Then Road Transport , OSH and  the cunsumer law people will be interested in there produce.

Comes under the heading of,...  safty,.. and " fit for intended the purpose" kinda stuff.

I will give them an earful when I go in to make my next payment.

[duckman]

O.k. I give in - What the hell is it ????

[bikerboy]

Its the must have accessory of 2003, the flashing valve cap.












It worked ! Thanks Aff-man

[Big Dog]

Just a wee update. Went back to supplier of said caps, they were somewhat apologetic and asure me they were removed from sale a couple of weeks ago due to a similar problems.

I'm happy with that, I had had them over a year after all.

[bikerboy]

The least they could have done was refund your money. They admitted the product was defective and it could have caused a serious accident.

[Big Dog]

Aye, however I was more interested in making sure they were withdrawn from sale.

As they were sold in good faith I say "caveat emptor" (buyer beware). these were not identified as a potential hazard until I had been happy with prfomance for 8 months ergo it was up to me to remove them. My main concern is that no-one else waste their money!

I did however feel more confident that I was visible from the side for over a year, as they were very effective.

Would you give a refund or expect one after a year?

ps they did give a discount on my next purchase (fog city visor) and some free ear plugs! As I said their response was as much if not more than I expected given the time frame. Good on Red Baron from my view point. They listened to my greivance and dealt with it to my satisfaction, this is more important to me than a refund.

[Dave]

The consumer guarantees act state that anything sold must be fit for the purpose for which it is sold. i.e. holding air in the tyre-which it did not.I'm not sure what the time frame on that would be but as the original valve would last for the life of the tyre, it is reasonable to expect the replacement to also.

[Coldkiwi]

i saw a civic with an orange valve cap last w/e and it did look really good (kinda like the brakes were on fire actually!). Shame they're not all they say they are