Tyre help

[willt]

Hi guys

Sorry for the newbie question. Got brand new tyres on my zed and today got a puncture. Can tyres be repaired and would somewhere like kwikfit be a good place to go?

Thanks in advance

Will

 

[tertius]

Hi guys

Sorry for the newbie question. Got brand new tyres on my zed and today got a puncture. Can tyres be repaired and would somewhere like kwikfit be a good place to go?

Thanks in advance

Will

It depends where the puncture is. In the tread, almost certainly, in the shoulder/sidewall almost certainly not.

No idea re. Kwikfit, if possible I'd go for somewhere I knew and had confidence in. If you have used the Kwikfit and know they are competent, then I don't see why not.

 

[willt]

Thanks tertius!!

 

[willt]

One more question - if I put the 'get you home' foam in then that will mean I can't repair the tyre, right?

 

[tertius]

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One more question - if I put the 'get you home' foam in then that will mean I can't repair the tyre, right?

Do you actually have to put the foam in? Quite often a screw will hold air for a good while - I recently drove all the way from the Eurotunnel to the 'ring with a screw in a tyre and didn't need to inflate it once.

Re.the foam - I "believe" a tyre can be repaired after using it, but the tyre places don't like it. However, I certainly do not know the truth of it.