ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 21st September, 2025

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley's not exactly living up to her pristine Mazda-bassador title...  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDEM Podcast Network, it's Fletchfallen and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Guys, this is the second time. This has happened. I've got another flat tire on the Mazda. You sent a photo on the way to work this morning. And this is amazing. And the first time I ever knew that this was even a thing, I'd rented a car.

And it came up on the dashboard. It was like, bang. And it was like, your tyre pressure is low. And I was like, how does the front of the car not? that the back time, like, how is the computer in the tyre? I know, I don't know. How is it in the tyre? Where have you put in mini computers in my tyres?

That's crazy. I'm actually going to Google while you, yeah, yeah, dear listener in. Yeah, yeah, dear listener, listen up. How do cars know the tire pressure? Put, hyphen, is there a mini computer in the wheel? Is there a mini computer in the wheel? Yeah.

Okay. Because, yeah, mine, because, you know, I'm a Mazda Bacitor. so it's a modern car because not all cars would do this. Okay, they have a T-P-M-S, a tire pressure monitoring system that detects and alerts the driver when pressure is lower in balance,

prompting the driver to manually adjust the pressure so they can't lower the pressure themselves. No, no, no, no, you can't, because it's got the valves on it. It uses a small battery-powered sensor inside each wheel. A.k.a, a mini-computer! A mini-computer that sends data wirelessly

to the car's computer. So it's wireless from your... tire to the car's computer isn't that crazy that is nuts i know modern technology well i had this come up i was driving along and it came up ding and it was back right wheel and it had gone down just a little last time this happened remember when vaughan you know looked like the hero of the day it was like there is a screw in your tire right and it's going whereas this one was like a slow little leak and then so i went with my um friend and he pumped it up and then i was like great we're all good and then I went driving and it started going down again

so I was like okay she's got a leaky wiki took it to a tire place but not my usual oh okay not my usual and they did like oh yeah it's a small little thing and I patched it right so then I had my car and I've been driving my parents car because they're coming back soon and I need to charge their battery of that car you've heard the whole saga of that car apparently any petrol for cars

crazy it's wild I thought all cars were electric now yeah and so I've been driving that car and then I got into my Mazda as the Mazda this morning And I was already running late. Yeah. And got in and the tire pressure's gone down again. I was like, guys, I've got a flat tire.

You've got to go through your driveway and get rid of all the screws. I need the magnet. You need the magnet. I need Bourne's big fishing magnet. Yeah. Because this is what it is. I've had endless flat tires. Yeah.

Either that or someone's coming into your driveway at night and... Do you guys my neighbours being like, shut up? Your car every morning at 4.50 drives me insane. I just meant your constant presence at your house. because that would work against them if they keep you there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're there constantly making noise as opposed to when you drive away, the noise goes. Yeah, no, you're right.

It won't be my neighbour. But I don't know, yeah, my driveway has a vendetta for me and my wheels. Because when mine, the rental car that I had, I drove away and I realized, and so I put some air in at the servo. And I was like, and then it kept going down. Yeah. But it was actually the faulty valve was faulty, not the actual. Leaky valve. It was a leaky valve.

It was able to drive it around enough. that it was fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to fill mine up now and then I'll take it to a proper place and get it all sort of. It's going to be eating into

I'll have a toastie after the showtime. Not one. I'll prioritise that first. Good. Yeah, yeah.