I have just been reading fuzzybunnys thread and it reminded me of the screw in my rear winter tyre last week ( yes I know its Summer now ) anyway it was right on the edge of the tread and if you take it to most tyre repairers they will tell you it cannot be repaired

 

If the puncture is in the middle 2 thirds of the tread it is classed as a minor repair out side this it is still repairable but is classed as a major repair and the tyre needs to be vulcanized at a cost of approx £20 a big saving on a new tyre especially if it has plenty of tread left.

 

Regards

 

Mike

Thanks for that.

Mike, just noticed your signature pic. WFH happened to that?

Is it a yeti under all that damage?

A lot depends on EXCATLY where the screw has penetrated and the amount of damage it has caused internally. The tyre has to be removed and the inner carcass has to be inspected first.

To say otherwise can be misleading.

You will often get the best advice on tyre repairs from small independent tyre dealers than from the big "sheds", especially the so-called "Quick" one!!

In the old days, the repairer's just placed an inner tube inside of punctured tubeless tyre, now, it's illegal, so they tell me.

In the old days, the repairer's just placed an inner tube inside of punctured tubeless tyre, now, it's illegal, so they tell me.

I thought of that just before I read your post!  it saved me a few quid on occasions.

Such a major repair is fine for around town, but I wouldn't trust a repair near the sidewall when over 80% of my 45k/year is on roads over 50mph

I'm not keen on using repaired tyres for high load or high speed running so my preference is to replace. There are times that I regret it, like the screw in my bike's rear tyre when 300 miles old, but so far I've only had one tyre failure at speed and was able to manage it. I'll do what I can to avoid having to manage another.

I've watched the outcome of a Honda CX500 blowing a rear tyre sprinting away from a toll booth and helped with basic care while an ambulance was summonsed.

In the old days, the repairer's just placed an inner tube inside of punctured tubeless tyre, now, it's illegal, so they tell me.

 

 

A couple of years ago I had a front tyre go at 60mph on a car that I'd just collected, that had had a tube fitted.  I saw a funny repair in a tyre the other day, not the usual mushroom patch repair (like in another part of that tyre), but a repair that looked like some glue had been stuffed in the hole, not something that I would like on the back end of a XJ Jaguar.

It isn't actually illegal to fit a tube in a tubeless tyre, unless the tyre actually states "not suitable for tubes" but most tubeless tyres are actually unsuitable. A tubed tyre has to have a totally smooth interior, but most tubeless tyres are quite rough internally, often with ridges where the plies are. These ridges rub on the tubes and quickly puncture them.

It is a big problem in the Series LR world as the standard steel wheels are not air-tight, and therefore obviously not designed for tubeless tyres!

Thanks for that.

Mike, just noticed your signature pic. WFH happened to that?

Is it a yeti under all that damage?

It dates back to a post in Sept 2012 just after I got my car  ( post 13  14 and 15 in this thread  http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/250031-winter-tyres/#entry2934805  )

 

It was a joke Photoshop photo  http://www.briskoda.net/forums/gallery/image/2036-ye-lorean/

 

Regards

 

Mike