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Puncture & No Spare Wheel??
wilkingj - 16/6/06 at 02:35 PM

hi ho..

What doe the team think of this. Its a pocket plugger for effecting a mushroom type repair on a tubeless tyre.
Linky thinggy

There are several good things on this site. The plugger is very compact and reuseable unlike the tins of squirty fix stuff.

Does anyone have experience of this product?.. if so whats it like.

iank - 16/6/06 at 02:50 PM

Not used a DIY version, but repairs using glued in bungs (for want of a better term) are common at tyre places in Canada and gave me no problems.

The cans of foam need to be cleaned out before a long term repair can be made, not sure if you could treat any of the on the road repair kits as permanent but it would be useful if you could.

Bryan Sears - 16/6/06 at 04:22 PM

If Cambridge is in another country have a go.
If Cambridge is still in the UK and you have an accident with a tyre with a plug in it some big boys will drag you off and remove your small bits.

iank - 16/6/06 at 06:15 PM

So it's perfectly safe in another country, but not in Cambridge. Strange...

You do know Lotus supply the cans of spray gloop with the Elise, much safer I'm sure.

muzchap - 16/6/06 at 06:38 PM

quote:

If Cambridge is still in the UK and you have an accident with a tyre with a plug in it some big boys will drag you off and remove your small bits.


So you're saying that any repaired tyre then involved in accident - is due to the tyres fault?

What happened if the driver was off his face on drugs - ooh it was definitely the tyre plug officer, no no, not E's... tyre plugs!

Call me cynical - but that's just scaremongering

I love being proved wrong though (and often am!!! )

And I like the look of it and will def consider it - the foam stuff IIRC ruins the wheel forever??? (can anyone clarify?). Therefore these plugs look just the job!

Nice find Geoff

[Edited on 16/6/06 by muzchap]

whitestu - 16/6/06 at 07:24 PM

I had a tyre fixed in France with one of these.

The tyre wasn't actually flat - just had a nail in it. The guy put the plug in without even letting the air out, and it lasted until the tyre wore out.

Stu

Chippy - 16/6/06 at 10:15 PM

I know that plugs used to be fitted by tyre repair garages in the past, but for some reason were considered unsafe by "the powers to be", and were stopped being used some years ago. If you want proof definate, go ask any tyre repair place. Definately a No No. atb Chippy.

BKLOCO - 16/6/06 at 10:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chippy
I know that plugs used to be fitted by tyre repair garages in the past, but for some reason were considered unsafe by "the powers to be", and were stopped being used some years ago. If you want proof definate, go ask any tyre repair place. Definately a No No. atb Chippy.


Perhaps you should tell "National Tyre" This is exactly how they repaired my tyre a couple of weeks ago.
With respect. I think you may have this wrong.

muzchap - 16/6/06 at 10:35 PM

Hmm so that's

2 pro plugs are banned

and a couple pro plugs are not banned!

I love the clarity of this forum

BKLOCO - 16/6/06 at 10:45 PM

LINK to Pirelli site

Chippy - 16/6/06 at 10:49 PM

BKLOCO, that is always a posability, may even be a probability. My post was only based on what I was told by our local tyre repair shop, cost me a new tyre, don't tell me the b*****d conned me. Hey ho, its only money, (MINE). atb Chippy

BKLOCO - 16/6/06 at 10:59 PM

My local tyre repair place told me that he could not repair my tyre at all for reasons that sounded ludicrous (spelling?) I didn't accept his logic so went to National tyre and was told the original bloke was talking Bo****ks.
As you say It's only money...Unfortunately it's allways ours...

owelly - 16/6/06 at 10:59 PM

IIRC there are certain areas of the tyre that cannot be plugged. If it's damaged in the sidewall or within 10mm of it, the tyre is scrap. It's also illegal to fit a tube to a tubeless tyre. Something to do with the surface of the inside of a tubeless tyre being different to tubed one and that heat gets generated and the tyre fails and it kills you, your family, all the neighbours and a school full of kids. Probably.
Or do tyre companies just want to sell more tyres??
I remember my Grandad fixing tyres with leather bootlace and rubber glue. Tyre still on the car!
As for the Tyreweld (and similar), that stuff makes a nasty mess of the wheel and tyre which can make fitting a new tyre a sticky business. Thats why sometyre emporiums don't like them!