>> You carry a temporary tyre plugging kit around with you? didn't even know they existed,
>> how do you find the leaking spot at the road side?
Just musing really, and wondering if there's a way of avoiding a guaranteed tyre write off if you have a puncture on a run-flat.
Not bothered at home, but on a road trip the more options the better. Not much you can do if you wreck a tyre of course. But with a jack (small scissor jack fits on top of the wheel arch behind the boot lining, the bracket's there) it's possible to have somebody take a wheel elsewhere without recovering the car, or remove the wheel to plug a puncture if you have the kit. I'm 99% certain pulling a nail or screw out and putting a plug in will work, not so sure about the gloppite.
If you have a jack and a pump but no spare, stick one of these in for another option. Also saves replacing the gloppite kit (about £50 at the dealer on the Mazda) and any hassle over getting a gloopy tyre repaired.
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The hardest part was shoving the rasp through the hole - tough old things, tyres. Rasp for a minute or two, coat the tyre string in rubber solution and thread it through the needle, shove it in, half a turn, yank it out and cut the protruding bits off. It's not supposed to be a permanent repair (nor is the gloppite) and I wouldn't treat it as such but in practice once it's in properly it's going to be fine in most cases. The issue is that if you haven't had the tyre off you can't check for foreign bodies in there or internal damage, but how often does that happen? Especially if you've just pulled out the nail that caused the problem.
EDIT: I have one in the caravan as well!
Last edited by: Manatee on Sun 2 Aug 20 at 11:23
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