Tire repair! please help!

Sidewall not good! If you drive on highways at highway speeds I would replace the tire. But if you predominately off road then you try doing a vulcanized repair and tube.

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If the sidewall is not to bad. you can patch the tire on the inside.Or you can put some plugs in the hole in the sidewall.Like my front tire on my toyota pickup 4X4. I drive sometimes I drive at 75 MPH and no problems. I have had it like that ever scents I bought it. Hope this is of any help Jamie

You have to be kidding. Patching a sidewall is not a long term solution. Only to get out of a place when there's no other option. Please let me know what your ride looks like. I don't want to be anywhere near you when that patch or plug fails at 75 mph

You can not have the sidewall repaired.

I suppose that for offroading -- slow speed driving -- a sidewall repair might be sufficient, but there is no way to ensure you keep your speed below

YOU might be able to make such a repair, but no tire store in the known universe will make such a repair. Indeed, a repair to the sidewall is dangerous ...

Please make sure you never drive in front of me, my wife, either of my kids, or any member of my extended family back to my third cousin twice removed, married to anybody, and that person's family. That tire _will_ fail and you will be toast, and everybody around will have to duck for cover. Thank God, you blew the head gasket and the truck does not run ...

PS It's since, not scents -- "I've had it like that ever I bought it." Scents is what you smell when you take your shoes off, since is how long you smell it. "I got those scents ever since I took my shoes off."

concensus says i gotta buy new tire... i'm sad. tho i did find an exact match for $178 at gateway. better than the close to matching at tire discounters for $208 wrote in message news:47560d44$0$15405$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com... just recently put a nice damn near new set of mudders on my 98 toy 4runner, and damned if i didn't have a freakish sidewall flat. i am interested in vulcanized repair and inserting a tube. comments? advice? where to take it? who will do it? i am in cincinnati, OH.

Well I did not make the repair. The owner that owned before I did. And the tear is at the very top of the sidewall in the tread. The tire shop told me about it. And said it will be ok. But said if it was any lower at all. They said it should be replaced asap. Are they wrong because if they I guess I need a new tire. By the way what type of tire is it that you are replacing?? Thanks Jamie

Yes they are wrong. You cannot safely repair a sidewall puncture even if it is at or near the top of the sidewall. Most reputable shops won't repair it even if in from the tread/sidewall corner (by about a quarter inch). Too much flexing for a repair to hold.

Oh yeah. Buy the road hazard warranty and save yourself a sh*tload of trouble and $

Ok then I will put the spare on before I drive it again. I guess it is time to go look at some new tires for my truck. It is about time for a new set anyways. I am sorry you could not fix your tire.I would say I am very lucky that the tire did not blow out. Thank you guys. That tire shop doe's not know shit.Saying the tire was fine. Thanks Jamie

If these tires are to be used on the highway you are going to have a real hard time finding a tire shop that will do it for you, they are all scared to death of the inevitable liability lawsuits.

If the tire store patches a tire that all the Tire Manufacturer Industry Associations say is "not repairable" (and they set the bar really low, since they are in the business of selling new tires...) and it comes apart at speed causing a fatal crash, your heirs can and will take them to the cleaners.

If the repair is very small, there are ways to fix sidewall damage to off-road tractor and implement tires that don't get driven at highway speeds. They make hot patches with bias-ply repair cords on the back that are about 4 inches square or a 4X6 rectangle, filler rubber to pack in the injury hole, and smaller reinforced patches for the outside wall.

If you want to assume the liability for the repairs you do, any NAPA Auto Parts dealer can order all the tools and supplies for you, it's all in the PSA Catalog.

They sell special hot-patching curing clamps with 500W electric heating plates to vulcanize all the repair layers in place. (These patches are way too big for the "light the fuel-pad on the back of the patch" style they used to sell for bicycle tubes.)

Oh, you'll also need a tire mounting machine like a Coats 20-20 and a spin balancer, so you can break down and remount the tires yourself. If the tire store sees the sidewall has been patched they won't even mount them back on your rim for you, let alone put them on the car.

And a work-stand and bead spreader to hold the tire in a working position, and a tire patch buffer (low speed air die grinder with a half-round carbide buffing wheel), a bubble testing tire trough, and a good sized air compressor - 5 HP should do. And a nice impact wrench and a floor jack... If you search for good used tools you can get a decent deal, but you'll still drop a grand minimum.

By the time you buy all the gear and supplies you need, you could throw out several $100 tires and buy new - it only pays if you do them a lot, like you're a large farm operating a fleet of tractors and they regularly snag $800 - $1,500 large tractor and combine tires on stumps and chunks of steel...

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Its only good for mud drags or a kids swing, all else throw it away, shit happens, get over it, buy a new tyre.

Or some decent tyres with tripple layers at least on the side walls.

discount tire is getting so paranoid they won't even repair a tire twice if both tread punctures fall within a certain distance of each other

OR

if your tire (tread) is punctured; you plug it (like offroad to get home) then take it to Discount for a patch repair; if they see the plug then they will not even touch it.