<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wayne</b> <<a href="mailto:wc701lists@bellsouth.net">wc701lists@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
George Roffe wrote:<br>> Anybody here ever plug their own tire?<br>> I've got a screw in a tire and while I could have a shop plug it easily<br>> enough, I imagine it's not that hard to do and I've seen DIY kits at
<br>> parts stores. So, I was wondering about this....<br><br>Yeah, I've done it lots of times with those goo-covered cord plugs.<br>Just get the kit with the rasp and insertion tool. On really tiny<br>punctures, you may need to enlarge the hole to patch it. I picked up a
<br>little finishing size brad in a tire and had to take a drill to the hole<br>before patching.<br><br>This supposedly invalidates the tire's speed rating; but I was doing<br>this on all-season highway kinda tires that were only driven for normal
<br>street use.<br><br> -Wayne</blockquote><div><br><br>Ive used them many times before. But on like daily driver type of tires. On my Azines I went and got it patched from behind. On truck tires or like my Altima I have and will still use plugs. They work decently. If its like some performance tire Id probably go get it patched, but on just regular tires...plugs are fine
<br><br>-Kevin<br>East TN Redneck and proud of it<br><br></div><br></div>