My Volvo ES90 suffers a very traditional setback - then a brand new one

Your car can be as fancy-pants-new and technology-led as you like, but whatever you do, it’s bloody hard to get away from the oldest motoring tribulation in the book: a punctured tyre.

Now, on this particular occasion, I’d only driven five minutes down the road to a gong bath. At a guess, I’d say most of you reading this aren’t gong bath-goers, so in case you wondered it’s essentially lying down and listening to the sound of large metal percussion instruments intended to relax you.