As you know, the back street bodgers that 'fixed' your puncture on the wheel don't actually know what is recommended under British Standards and simple 'best practice'.
Tyres with a very high speed rating are not rated as suitable for repair, so the places that would not fix them are correct, the back street place does not care, and will probably change hands often, big places are more careful about sticking to the recommended actions, they have much more to lose.
They work very well. Slightly surprised they are not more common, I had a couple of mini tractor tyres once from my local independent tyre place and they couldn't get them on even with the rope trick and their big compressor. They sent me round the corner to a normal garage to borrow their Cheetah.
In most cases, you will be correct, but in some it is quite possibly the other way around.
The brand-name, high-street tyre places all have a policy of not fixing tyres where the puncture is close to the sidewall - and they are not equipped to do so. However, the British Standard does not preclude that, it requires such repairs to be hot, vulcanised repairs, which none of the chains offer, but a small specialist might - even if they have to send it away.
SteveW
I'd be curious to know the cost of a 'hot vulcanised' repair.
Given the cost of a 'normal' repair in one of the 'big' tyre places is probably £25-30 (smaller places are cheaper of course), I suspect it could easily be £80+ (an inspired guess). Then there is the delay- an issue if you don't have a spare.
All in all, probably only worth it for more expensive, low mileage, tyres.
think it would be hard to find many places that do that now with tubeless tyres I bought one from my local garage years ago that they used for inner tube repairs for doing my motorcycle tube repairs works so much better then a sticky patch but you could always take it here ;(
That was my first thought too!
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