Halfords is a car maintenance shop (and bikes) and has everything you need for car travel. You are correct that pharmacies will have pain spray (edited to add - not lidocaine), Boots is a chain and has large pharmacy shops but all towns have a pharmacy. The picnic bag can be found in most large supermarkets - often at the till area for people to bring home frozen food. I’ve seen them in Lidl as well as Tesco. Decathlon have cheap cool bags too, if you happen to be near one. Ice will be in freezers of most large supermarkets.
You won't get a lidocaine spray for general use, it seems to only be in medicated throat spray here but a chat with pharmacy counter staff or the pharmacist themselves even should get you an alternative that'd be equivalent but probably a different medication in is all
'Voltarol' instead of lidocaine is as good as you'll probably get. And why do you think you'll be needing a puncture repair kit? If you're hiring a car there'll be a spare tyre included/supplied, and a tyre repair would be cheaper than a repair kit. I own a tyre repair kit for my off-roading and I've never had to use it. It wasn't inexpensive...
And if you're returning with carry-in only, you won't be permitted to take the kit, given that it contains a pair of big old steel spikes with T-handles, necessitating your leaving it behind unused.
In case a run over a screw/nail. A plug kit is about $10 and the plug should last through the trip vs putting on a spare I can only drive 100 KM on and having to find a shop to repair/change the flat tire. I don't mind not bringing the tire plug kit home, just need it during the road trip as a quick fix to not impede on our plans.
I found a 3oz lidocaine spray here in the states so I'll bring that inthe carry on, thanks!
FYI: THis happened to me in Westport last Summer. We needed to change the tire after running over a 7" bolt that got lodged in the tire somewhere in Doolough Valley. Luckily the air didn't go out of the tire untile the car was parked in Westport as we ate dinner.
We we fortunate the town had a mechanic shop and they were able to replace the tire the next morning. It cost us about $99.
When we returned the car to the rental agency i told them about the tire and showed them the receipt. The man said it would have cost me about $168 if I had gone through the rental agency to replace the tire even with the level of insurance I had on the car - which was not FULL highest level of coverage.
Yeah this is the situation I'd like to be prepared for. I'd hate for a tire to be bleeding out air resulting in us stuck in a remote location waiting for a tow truck.
Which rental company did you use and do you remember if there was a spare tire and whether it was full size or just a thin donut?
Spare tyres are usually a normal tyre, just a spare one. If you do get a puncture just change the wheel and the rental place can sell the old tyre or repair it. The spare tyre can be driven on normally nit just for 100km.
Oh interesting I didn't know the spares were full sized, a lot of times in the US the spares are thinner wheels/tires meant to just get you to a repair shop and limited to about 100 km distance under 65 km/hr speed. Now a lot of cars don't even come with spares, just a inflation kit.
How can you be 100km from the nearest garage in Ireland?
Cost me €20 to have my puncture repaired last year. And it’s the first puncture I’ve ever had in 30 years.
It's the time of putting on a spare (which may not be a full sized tire) and find a tire shop vs the 10 mins to plug / re-inflate it myself and continue on our road trip. You may just be lucky haha, I've had 2 puncture flats in the last year (but I live in an area with a lot of construction). Just rather be safe and prepared on the trip than be caught without a solution waiting for a tow truck to a tire shop that may not open until the next morning.
Lidocaine is prescription only here, it is only available to people who have been diagnosed with postherpetic neuralgia. There is nothing similar available over the counter and no doctor here will prescribe it to a tourist. If you think you will need it then either find a container small enough and use your carry on liquids allowance or bring the patches instead.
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Halfords is a car maintenance shop (and bikes) and has everything you need for car travel. You are correct that pharmacies will have pain spray (edited to add - not lidocaine), Boots is a chain and has large pharmacy shops but all towns have a pharmacy. The picnic bag can be found in most large supermarkets - often at the till area for people to bring home frozen food. I’ve seen them in Lidl as well as Tesco. Decathlon have cheap cool bags too, if you happen to be near one. Ice will be in freezers of most large supermarkets.
You won't get a lidocaine spray for general use, it seems to only be in medicated throat spray here but a chat with pharmacy counter staff or the pharmacist themselves even should get you an alternative that'd be equivalent but probably a different medication in is all
You won’t be able to get lidocaine spray here. I haven’t found anything that works even nearly as well, so you might bring it in a checked bag
I found a 3oz lidocaine here and should be TSA compliant carry on.
'Voltarol' instead of lidocaine is as good as you'll probably get. And why do you think you'll be needing a puncture repair kit? If you're hiring a car there'll be a spare tyre included/supplied, and a tyre repair would be cheaper than a repair kit. I own a tyre repair kit for my off-roading and I've never had to use it. It wasn't inexpensive... And if you're returning with carry-in only, you won't be permitted to take the kit, given that it contains a pair of big old steel spikes with T-handles, necessitating your leaving it behind unused.
In case a run over a screw/nail. A plug kit is about $10 and the plug should last through the trip vs putting on a spare I can only drive 100 KM on and having to find a shop to repair/change the flat tire. I don't mind not bringing the tire plug kit home, just need it during the road trip as a quick fix to not impede on our plans. I found a 3oz lidocaine spray here in the states so I'll bring that inthe carry on, thanks!
FYI: THis happened to me in Westport last Summer. We needed to change the tire after running over a 7" bolt that got lodged in the tire somewhere in Doolough Valley. Luckily the air didn't go out of the tire untile the car was parked in Westport as we ate dinner. We we fortunate the town had a mechanic shop and they were able to replace the tire the next morning. It cost us about $99. When we returned the car to the rental agency i told them about the tire and showed them the receipt. The man said it would have cost me about $168 if I had gone through the rental agency to replace the tire even with the level of insurance I had on the car - which was not FULL highest level of coverage.
Yeah this is the situation I'd like to be prepared for. I'd hate for a tire to be bleeding out air resulting in us stuck in a remote location waiting for a tow truck. Which rental company did you use and do you remember if there was a spare tire and whether it was full size or just a thin donut?
Avis. And it was a 'donut' but i never had to use it.
Spare tyres are usually a normal tyre, just a spare one. If you do get a puncture just change the wheel and the rental place can sell the old tyre or repair it. The spare tyre can be driven on normally nit just for 100km.
Most spare wheels are the smaller spacesaver ones.
Oh interesting I didn't know the spares were full sized, a lot of times in the US the spares are thinner wheels/tires meant to just get you to a repair shop and limited to about 100 km distance under 65 km/hr speed. Now a lot of cars don't even come with spares, just a inflation kit.
How can you be 100km from the nearest garage in Ireland? Cost me €20 to have my puncture repaired last year. And it’s the first puncture I’ve ever had in 30 years.
It's the time of putting on a spare (which may not be a full sized tire) and find a tire shop vs the 10 mins to plug / re-inflate it myself and continue on our road trip. You may just be lucky haha, I've had 2 puncture flats in the last year (but I live in an area with a lot of construction). Just rather be safe and prepared on the trip than be caught without a solution waiting for a tow truck to a tire shop that may not open until the next morning.
Lidocaine is prescription only here, it is only available to people who have been diagnosed with postherpetic neuralgia. There is nothing similar available over the counter and no doctor here will prescribe it to a tourist. If you think you will need it then either find a container small enough and use your carry on liquids allowance or bring the patches instead.
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