HELP: Is my tyre OK?

[Zedebee]

This may seem a stupid question, don’t shoot me down.

I have reinflated a flat tyre with one of those “get me home” kits that pumps in a bottle of latex. Pressure was fine for the 10 miles home. I have inspected the tyre and there are no signs of latex leak or anything stuck in the tyre which might have caused a puncture.

Is my tyre OK now, i.e. repaired, or should I take it to the tyre shop and get it repaired/replaced?

Note, it is a good quality Michelin tyre on the family Qashqai.

[srhutch]

You need to get it looked at, what you have done is to get you home only as the name and you have said.

[Pondrew]

Get a new tyre. Tyres are supposed to have air in them (or nitrogen if you want to be a ponce), not expanding foam.

[Scubaregs]

Tyre sealant is only good for a certain speed and is intended to get you home or to a repair outlet.

Get it checked by a tyre repair place, they will tell you if a repair is possible.

Is there a possibility someone has let the air out of it, did you try to inflate it before using the sealant?

[Pondrew]

Get it checked by a tyre repair place, they will tell you if a repair is possible.

Have you seen the mess the expanding foam makes? It will NOT be repairable. It is touch-and-go whether the wheel is salvageable

[Zedebee]

Get it checked by a tyre repair place, they will tell you if a repair is possible.

Have you seen the mess the expanding foam makes? It will NOT be repairable. It is touch-and-go whether the wheel is salvageable

I bl**dy hope the wheel is salvageable, it would be a really tragic system otherwise. Are you sure it’s expanding foam? It seems like the same stuff you put in tubeless bicycle tyres, which just seals the hole where it makes contact with air. Most of it stays liquid and just rinses off if you take the tyre off.

[Zedebee]

Thanks everyone, I better get it looked at in the morning.

[Scubaregs]

Get it checked by a tyre repair place, they will tell you if a repair is possible.

Have you seen the mess the expanding foam makes? It will NOT be repairable. It is touch-and-go whether the wheel is salvageable

If it's sealant, it can be washed out.

[BeeEmm]

Get a new tyre. Tyres are supposed to have air in them (or nitrogen if you want to be a ponce), not expanding foam.

Of course he needs to get it cleaned out but did you know that the BMW iX has a special noise-absorbing foam inside the tyres which makes the quiet electric car run even quieter.

[Pondrew]

Ok I may have been a tad over-dramatic and maybe this stuff has got better recently. The only time I ever used puncture sealant it made a right mess and the tyre place had to junk the tyre and scrape the inside of the wheel. It was a good few years ago.

Hope you get it sorted relatively painlessly

[Zedebee]

Well, the upshot is two garages have told us they won’t repair tyres with gunk in, so it’s a new tyre. What a very stupid system.

[clarker63]

Well, the upshot is two garages have told us they won’t repair tyres with gunk in, so it’s a new tyre. What a very stupid system.

hence something like rats tails are a useful addition to your arsenal when a puncture strikes.. if you can get to it of course with no jack... I have a couple of different solutions before resorting to the gunk.

[kis]

Well, the upshot is two garages have told us they won’t repair tyres with gunk in, so it’s a new tyre. What a very stupid system.

That's really interesting. I didn't know that, not that I carry the stuff. I've got a spacesaver in mine.

I suppose it works on the same principle as a runflat? If you've used the tyre in a way that it's not intended then it may have become compromised?

[M1k3yC]

Well, the upshot is two garages have told us they won’t repair tyres with gunk in, so it’s a new tyre. What a very stupid system.

Have you tried ATS? ATS states that it will repair runflat tyres and I don't see "having used a repair/get-you-home kit" as a listed reason why a repair would be impossible. See: https://www.atseuromaster.co.uk/consume ... ure-repair

[ronk]

The fella I use is an honest to goodness old school tyre man - he will happily mend a punctured run flat if the puncture is in an appropriate place on the carcass - He said if its got gunk in it then its scrap!