Should I get my tyre looked at after pulling out screw

huwy123

I've pulled a screw out of rear tyre today and wondered if I should still get the tyre looked at as there has been no loss of pressure.
The screw is fairly small at 1.5cm you can see the screw hole below



Can anyone offer any advice?

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Since you are asking, you must be worried, so get it looked at. They will either re-assure you or sell you a new tyre.

I wouldn't bother if the tyre stays up.

System

Did you get the whole screw out or just the top? If its the whole screw, how long was it? A short one may not have gone all the way through.

Pressure loss may take quite a while, could be days depending on how much you drive and what position the tyre ends up being in at rest. I had a blowout on my truck tyre which ended up being a 4 inch slit in the sidewall. I'd heard a pop one night, nothing happened, no sudden pulling to one side or anything and assumed I'd run over a pop bottle or crisp packet. It was a further 20 miles before I started to notice anything amiss and that was just a sense of the cab leaning to the left. Opening the passenger window all you could hear was a phut phut phut sound as the tyre rotated and the occassional puff of air was let out. I pulled onto the hard shoulder and it was a couple of hours before the tyre fitter arrived and it still hadn't gone completely flat.

Almost all tyre places charge around £15 for a puncture repair. I'd let them do one, its cheaper than replacing a tyre and more convenient than ending up with a flat in the middle of nowhere.

d123

Tarambor wrote: »

Almost all tyre places charge around £15 for a puncture repair. I'd let them do one, its cheaper than replacing a tyre and more convenient than ending up with a flat in the middle of nowhere.

There must be some expensive parts of the country (or you're using a lot of rip-off merchants).

£5 around here to repair a simple puncture at an independent tyre shop...

AdrianC

d123 wrote: »

There must be some expensive parts of the country (or you're using a lot of rip-off merchants).

£5 around here to repair a simple puncture at an independent tyre shop...

That's too close to the shoulder to repair, unless the tyre's removed from the rim and given a proper vulcanised repair. Certainly not sticky-pluggable.

If it's not losing air, then I wouldn't bother doing anything.

d123

AdrianC wrote: »

That's too close to the shoulder to repair, unless the tyre's removed from the rim and given a proper vulcanised repair. Certainly not sticky-pluggable.

If it's not losing air, then I wouldn't bother doing anything.

My post is in answer to the post I quoted, not the OP.

Rubidium

huwy123 wrote: »

I've pulled a screw out of rear tyre today and wondered if I should still get the tyre looked at as there has been no loss of pressure.
The screw is fairly small at 1.5cm you can see the screw hole below

Can anyone offer any advice?

You have not pulled the screw out of the tyre, you have simply pulled the head of the screw off. When it is properly removed, it will deflate and the position of it means that it is not reparable to BS AU159.

Car_54

d123 wrote: »

There must be some expensive parts of the country (or you're using a lot of rip-off merchants).

£5 around here to repair a simple puncture at an independent tyre shop...

I have had punctures repaired three times free of charge, by KwikFit, in Surrey & SW London, one of the most expensive parts of the country.

huwy123

Thanks for all the replies pretty confident I've got the whole screw out.. here it is...

AdrianC

huwy123 wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies pretty confident I've got the whole screw out.. here it is...

Yeh, that's unbroken.

Gloomendoom

If you haven't punctured the inner liner, it should be fine. That's what keeps the air in.