This is what leads me to believe the 215/55 is to blame here and I seriously need to adapt my driving style when on the XUV300. My Ecosport with 205/60 R16 steel wheels has taken pretty major hits from potholes, and seen the worst of roads at some good speeds and never did I have a single incident such as this. As it is, in Maharashtra there is a great abundance of potholes and no matter how I drive the car is bound to hit some. I'm very skeptical replacing the tyre with a 55 aspect ratio one and waiting for this to happen again. Although the tyre is no longer losing air and I cannot even make out where it was patched, I'm still worried running with a patched tyre.
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The tyre repair guy however assured a patch will fix it permanently and they do this regularly with buses and a car should not be a problem. The hole size was big enough not to accommodate a plug. Replaced with spare and faced the same problems as you not being able to fit the original tyre in the boot As soon as we stopped, the tyre was flat within a minute. TPMS was useful as it almost instantly threw up warning all over the dash and infotainment.
Lots and lots of potholes, and finally a rear tyre gave up. The exact same thing happened to me on Nashik - Pune just yesterday. Absolutely do not understand why this tyre size was selected. I looked up and confirmed a 205/60 tyre would provide a higher contact patch and a slightly higher ground clearance. The W8(O) with 17 inch and 6.5J alloy size is weirdly accommodating 215/55 tyres. I was already worried because I'm not a fan of lower sidewall heights.
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