I have a skinny-headless-nail in my 1000 mile old falken azenis rt-615. I've never had my tires repaired before, so how reliable are tire repairs? Do they have to dismount the tire to repair it or can they treat it from the outter part of the tire

 

I did a plug patch to my tire about 5K miles ago and it's great still. Only cost about 6 bucks to get the whole kit...and took about 20 mins to get the tire off, patched, refilled, and rotate the other tires, and reinstall.

A good hot vulcanized patch from a tire place will last you no problem. Not sure what it'll run you tho...and they will have to take the whole tire off the rim iirc.

 

slime does a really good job........

this is what used before

http://www.slime.com/product/122/Sma...S-PDQ/06).html

 

I wouldn't use slime... if you put too much it will throw off the balancing, plus if you hve a tpms sensor then it can mess up that sensor. If you get a simple plug patch from a tire shop it will run you about 19 -24 dollars. depends on your size of tire

 

yea i wouldnt use that stuff. the tire shop will hate you when it comes time for new tires, lol. Just get it patched up.

 

Proper tire flat repairs require in taking the tire off the rim , inserting a "plug patch " from the inside wich excess is trimmed off on the outside. should be like 20 bucks. don't go cheap and buy Walmart tire repair kits.

 

i used that slime stuff before,didnt ruin the sensor,and when i got new tires on i warned the shop about it,they didnt have have a problem with it all they was they perfered me using the spare tire rather then that stuff,but at the time i didnt have the spare in my car but i had the other stuff in the car for awhile so thats the only reason i used it

 

^^well if you have an 06 than you have no sensor to worry about messing up. the sensors attached to the wheel only came on 07-up

 

actually i do have a sensor,cause when i had a flat,the the air pressure went down below 20 psi a light came on and didnt know what that light meant at that time,so i did some research and found out that it was the tire sensor letting me know one of my tires were low on air

 

not on 06s, on the earlier models it goes by the abs system. The flat tire will spin slower than the other ones when it is low which signals that the tire is low. The TPMS sensors werent put in until 07

 

o,i see...............but hey at least it told me heheh

 

The tire plugging kit works great EXCEPT for a really skinny nail because you ahve to open up the hole to stuff a 1/4 " square doubled over plus the needle tool into the hole. Looks like an inside patch is going to have to be used. Or you could try some liquid vulcanizing rubber injected into the hole.

 

thanks for the responses. I'll probably end up going to the shop. For now, i put my stocks back on which had falken 912s