RichardW wrote: 10 Oct 2018, 21:36
The end of what looked like a 4" wire nail turned out to be something that looked like a medical instrument with a sort of spoon on one end (the one that entered the tyre!), with a handle best part of 1/2" wide and 1/8" thick, and measuring about 6" long overall - and all of which had gone through at an angle
Tyre scrap....no real loss as I was going to replace them anyway as they are 'Triangle' tyres which are rubbish, and there's not much point having trick traction control to help in the snow if you don't have the right tyres on! Taking it back on Fri to get the other rear replaced, then will do the fronts in a few weeks.
Sorry to hear about that!
My Ion is currently parked at home with an axle stand where a wheel should be thanks to a puncture Wednesday last week.
I park near work behind one of those fold down parking bollards, and on the way out on the way home I grazed the edge of the bollard - I've driven over it plenty of times without issue previously (it's hard to get out without driving over it if a car is parked opposite) but this time something sharp nicked the sidewall and introduced a small hole in the sidewall.
As soon as I got out to fold up the bollard I could hear it hissing like an angry snake... second sidewall puncture in this car since I've had it, both resulting in needing a new tyre.
Finally made it home with the help of the AA and a multi-fit wheel by about 8pm (then had to go pick up Joshua in the other car) and the car has been waiting for a new Vredestein since then - with that particular size out of stock in the UK and backordered from the factory until Friday this week!
The Xantia has been getting a good workout on the daily commute for the last week but the petrol bill is eye watering with a 35 mile a day commute which includes rush hour traffic on the M8.
The petrol cost of using the Xantia for a week is going to be considerably more than the new tyre, and about twice what I pay for an entire month of commuting in the Ion.
. Electrics all working, so they must already have been enabled, including cutting the rear park sensors when a trailer is plugged in. The electrics kit also have a party trick - switch on the hazards, and then plug the trailer in, and it runs a light check, putting each of the light functions on for a second or so in turn so you can check them easily - which is rather odd to see! It also apparently makes the brake / side light flash if it detects the indicator is not working. Traced a faulty side light on the bike rack to a loose wire in the plug. Then onto looking at the bikes - trued up the front wheel on my bike, but it still seemed to be running out of true - a closer look revealed that the tyre was breaking up and had a big lump on it, so off to Halfords for a new one. The one that was on there, I'm pretty sure was on it when I bought it nearly 20 years ago... d'oh really must get out on it more!!!
) and on the way back, BING! LH rear tyre punctured, accompanied by a big red picture of an exploding tyre and the red STOP sign! OK, better do something about it then - pump only showed 10psi, and after pumped up a bit it was obviously leaking - got a big nail in it at an angle 
Perhaps they will burn in a bit and get better after a short time, but I'm sure they didn't come from the factory like this! The OS lamp is very odd with a just a bright beam of light at the LH edge of the pattern, but little light on the road elsewhere. I may have to consider some driving lamps as they are verging on the dangerous on main beam on unlit roads 
PSA have a bit of a reputation for producing duff lights... XM, S1 Xantia to name but two...