Quick puncture repair

sevenhills

CAR, VAN, MOTORCYCLE and TYRE TUBELESS PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT. EMERGENCY TYRE KIT.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAR-VAN-MOTORCYCLE-TYRE-TUBELESS-PUNCTURE-REPAIR-KIT-EMERGENCY-TIRE-KIT/322455961879?hash=item4b13df8117:g:VF4AAOSwuLZYzShO

A friend recomended the above repair kit, but I am not sure if he has ever used them. If you have a screw in your tyre, you need to remove it and insert one of these stricky repair strips. It does not sound easy, getting a sticky rubber sprip into a tyre.

wgl2014

The kit comes with an applicator that you thread the repair strip through before pushing it into the hole.

Personally for the sake of £10 for a tyre shop to mend the puncture properly I wouldn't bother unless you are considering keeping the kit for a temporary roadside repair.

forgotmyname

You use them when your in the middle of nowhere with no access to the real world, and ride very slowly as a get you to civilisation.

If there is a screw in the tyre its probably holding enough air to move to a safe position anyway.

I would expect the average driver to make matters worse with one of those kits.

davemorton

Ive got one of those kits in the car (no spare) and used it a few month ago with a large piece of metal stuck in the tyre. Pulled the metal out, then quickly put the tube in, has not leaked since, fantastic piece of kit and so easy to use.

EdGasketTheSecond

I've used those sticky strings on a nearly new tyre. Puncture was near the edge so no normal repair possible. The strip repair started leaking after a while so I double-plugged it with two strings and that lasted the life of the tyre. Very good. The beauty of it is that the tyre does not come off so there is no need to rebalance.


To the poster above that suggests £10 for a puncture repair; what century are you in? A puncture repair from most tyre places was £20 years ago.

knightstyle

I used one of these when the tyre people would not repair a screw hole as it was close to the edge of the tyre. Sold the car later after about another 20k miles and the tyre was now needing replacement. Never lost pressure and was fine even of some very rough roads.

wgl2014

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

To the poster above that suggests £10 for a puncture repair; what century are you in? A puncture repair from most tyre places was £20 years ago.

Last time I had a puncture repaired was about 18 months ago. I'm sure you can manage to pay more if you shop around!

Carrot007

See, that is the problem with these things.


They are emergency repair kits. Not life of the tyre kits. You still need to get a real repair or replace the tyre. and at £50 a tyre is that too much to ask for safety (YMMV but if you have silly tyres then you chose it (I am refering to Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance tyres BTW)).


I expect you did not keep under 50 either while the kit is on.


And no, your car should not have passed an MOT either if it was noticed.

EdGasketTheSecond

Lots of bikers use those type of repairs and the risk to a biker with a blowout is more than a car driver. So if its good enough for them...

Richard53

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Lots of bikers use those type of repairs and the risk to a biker with a blowout is more than a car driver. So if its good enough for them...

Just about to say the same thing. I carried one of these kits for years but never needed to use it. However, I knew a lot of riders who repaired a rear tyre like this and carried on riding as normal until the tyre wore out (admittedly this might be only 2000 miles). These guys were happy to use all the bike's performance - perhaps 130 bhp and 130 mph - with a repaired tyre, so I think you can be confident that it is a good method of repair. Me ... I'd use it to get me home, then I would have a new tyre. I'm like that.

Joe_Horner

The problem with these isn't that they don't work, its that you don't get to inspect the tyre properly before fitting one, or after it's fitted.

The chances are that won't matter but punctures can, and do, cause damage to the structure. That increases the risk of a structural failure (think full, sudden, blow-out) even if the repair has apparently sealed ok. That's also why repairs aren't allowed close to the shoulders - the structure around there is particularly complicated and the chance of damage to it (even with internal inspection) highest.

Punctures also damage the inner lining, so it's quite possible with these to get a good seal between the plug and the tread (which will keep the air in) but a bad seal between the plug and the carcass. That allows pressurised air between the carcass and the tread, which sooner or later leads to tread separation. Lumps of tread flying off at speed isn't much fun. That's why a standard tyre repair uses a plug AND patch - the plug fills the hole & the patch ensures the inside is sealed.

Neither of those are "guaranteed" to happen, and many people (as evidenced here) use them for the life of the tyre without problems. But they are real risks and they're why these things are sold as "not for road use".

It always amuses me how some people will insist on "the best tyres you can afford" then be happy to shove these in to fix a puncture!