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I broke one on a 51 Ford Convertible. No power steering but I nudged it to the curb in front of a railroad station. Got the part, went back and fixed it on the spot. One thing about old Fords is you can take the whole car apart with a half inch and a 9/16 inch wrench.
Five bucks and about ten minutes will get your puncture repaired at several local independent shops around here. Of course that's only if the foreign object is in the tread and not the sidewall. Screw in the sidewall = new tire.
I have used the Tire Plugger several times for a permanent repair despite the instructions saying it should be a temporary fix. You won't believe the mushroom shaped plug actually fits inside the hollow needle that slides into the hole but it does.
There are a few ways to fix a flat.
One is the old tire plug approach where you glue up a plug and jam it through the tire carcass from outside.
The proper way to repair the tire is to dismount it, rough up teh area surrounding the hole and apply a glue and rubber patch from inside the tire.
then remount and rebalance.
the free or near free is use the external plug.
The latter version runs 30-60 bucks.
I replaced the run flat tires on the little 2013 BMW early on, have a spare delete the 2016 Cayman, and a 2007 S2000. I don’t carry a spare in any of the cars (except the Jeep in CO) and have a patch plug repair kit in each car in case I get a puncture. I try to keep the tires relatively up to date, and so far, toi toi toi, I haven’t had a real flat in years. I don’t like run flat tires. But I keep my AAA membership active! LOL
There are a few ways to fix a flat.
One is the old tire plug approach where you glue up a plug and jam it through the tire carcass from outside.
The proper way to repair the tire is to dismount it, rough up teh area surrounding the hole and apply a glue and rubber patch from inside the tire.
then remount and rebalance.
the free or near free is use the external plug.
The latter version runs 30-60 bucks.
That is a good summary. If losing air is persistent, tire will have to be dismounted and repaired properly with patch from the inside.
It's been years since I had a puncture on a (car) tire. The last one I had to repair was 1am on Christmas Day, 2012, on the return leg of a 400 mile road trip. Unfortunately, the second-to-last one I had to repair was 11pm on Christmas Eve, 2012, on the return leg of a 400 mile road trip. That was...not a fun journey.
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