Car tyre protection - Ultraseal / Superseal / a.n.other

kfisher

Hi I was wondering whether anyone else has experience of using a pre puncture solution such as ultraseal / superseal. Have been driving 18 years with little or no tyre problems. Switched job and have had 4 tyres in under a year *all* due to nails and screws. The office is on an industrial estate.

I was wondering whether anyone could recommend / offer any thoughts on the pre-puncture tyre solutions out. Ive come across ultraseal and superseal. Has anyone tried these / other solutions?

Kinda need a better solution than keep replacing tyres and would rather not experience another blowout on the M25.

Have had shed loads of keep out of the gutter comments, but having driven *this* long without any problem, I can only conclude my new job location is the determining factor. As I cant stop the lazyness of whoever is discarding nails on the road I need to consider alternative options.

Appreciate any experience on tyre protection for cars.

K (down 4 x 17" tyres in 8 months)

forgotmyname

The issue is how often will you check the tyres for punctures, Because you may get one and not notice.

I dread to think what would happen of something stuck in the tyre caused it to shred because you didnt know it was punctured.

Paperbird

I believe bikers use them but just to stop the tyre deflating if they pick up a nail / screw. The tyre still needs repairing / replacing.
If you think you are picking them up on the industrial estate walk the route and see if there is a place where something is dropping them, it could be as a lorry pulls out from one of the units or a bumpy section.
If you do find anything is there a different route you could take to get to your office.
When you are on the industrial estate turn the radio off and open both front windows a couple of inches then if you pick anything up in a tyre you might hear it clicking as it hits the road on every revolution of the tyre and be able to remove it before it ruins the tyre.

GolfBravo

kfisher wrote: »

Switched job and have had 4 tyres in under a year *all* due to nails and screws. The office is on an industrial estate...Have had shed loads of keep out of the gutter comments, but having driven *this* long without any problem, I can only conclude my new job location is the determining factor. As I cant stop the lazyness of whoever is discarding nails on the road I need to consider alternative options.

Appreciate any experience on tyre protection for cars.

K (down 4 x 17" tyres in 8 months)

Is it always the rear tyres getting the nails in?

Had this problem about 10 years ago when my (then) office was temporarily relocated to an industrial estate, with a timber yard next door. Within the first month working there every single employee had at least one puncture.

Anyway, after my first puncture (6 nails in rear N/S tyre) I had a quick chat to a tyre/vehicle dynamics engineer (at General Motors, and he didn't care about nails since he had an endless supply of free tyres) - he said that probably 90% of tyre punctures caused by nails were in rear tyres. Apparently the front tyre would drive over a nail, flip it in the air, and the nail would end up hitting the rear tyre on an angle and would eventually puncture it. He said not to use any "magic" tyre seals - they don't prevent nails from puncturing a tyre, they may just temporarily seal it. But then would you want to drive with a nail (or more) stuck in your tyres and not know about it?

His advice was to change my normal commute route (which I did) and to slow down to 10mph to avoid nails hitting the rear tyres.

PS
In the end we just ended up ringing the police since it was a road safety issue - they turned up at the timber yard the next day to have a chat. The whole street was thoroughly cleaned within a couple of days.

Stooby2

Don't use it. It masks a hole in the tyre that would otherwise be repaired or the tyre replaced. It can allow water into the tyre carcass and cause rust and possible failure.

Tyre fitters hate it as it's so messy and it can get forced between the tyre and the bead where it dries out and causes no end of problems with seating a new tyre - a long messy job with a wire brush to get it off. I bought a motorbike with this crud already in and had major problems.