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/consumer/tyres/tyre-services/puncture-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!

 

[Mr Tidy]

From what you have said it was flat before you "gunked" it so I suspect it is probably beyond salvation.

But you could try Martins Tyres in West End near Bisley (not far from the M3 at J3).

I have used them for years, and they repaired a Pirelli run-flat on my 1 Series for £10 - I got another 11K miles out of it!

Most places just want to sell new tyres.

 

[ronk]

If it was run flat - scrap it!

 

[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.

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/consumer/tyres/tyre-services/puncture-repair

I contacted ATS (thanks for the suggestion btw). They said if it was water based they could repair it, but if it was oil based they wouldn’t, and they couldn’t tell until they took the tyre off.

I really can’t be arsed with this faff, so it’s going in for a new Michelin Crossclimate today at £160. Yes, I know, blackcircles will do one for £128, but not until Thursday.

Although the subject of this post is not a Z4, I hope it will be a salutary lesson for anyone who has ditched runflats in favour of a bottle of gunk in the boot. The one upside is that the gunk/pump was really easy to use, effective, and got my wife home without any drama (except for calling me out to operate the damn thing!)

 

[buzyg]

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.

Agree, I have rats tails in the boot of the MR and have repaired two punctures. They work just fine and are quite easy to use. You just need to be aware of the rules regarding what you can fix.

 

[mr.tourette]

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

mate Ive had 2 tyres repaired that have had tyre weld in.. its not expanding foam just a liquid sealant that makes its way into the hole.. tyre guys said it just takes a few minutes longer to clean up the tyre.. never an issue at my local tyre place