Had the car serviced the other day, and they noted a nail in a rear tyre, but that there didn't seem to be any leakage. I see two obvious options: (1) Remove the nail myself and if there is no air leakage job done. If air leaks, take to tyre place to fix. (2) Take tyre to tyre place to fix - which may just result in paying for them to do the first part of (1). Going route (1) assumes that if the nail hasn't penetrated the inner casing (or not enough to cause a leak) then all is O.K. Does this seem a reasonable approach? Cheers Dave R

I wouldn't take the risk of the tyre remaining airtight if you remove the nail. If it's penetrated part way through the tread but not pierced right the way through, there could be a fairly thin layer of rubber left to contain the pressure, and it could start leaking. Get it repaired properly. We had a very slow puncture on our car - tyre lost about 0.5 bar (out of 2.5 bar correct pressure) over a couple of weeks. I couldn't see any sign of anything in the tread, so I was suspecting a leaking valve. When I eventually got round to taking the car in to a tyre garage they found a screw with its head buried in the tread which had closed over it and a very thin layer of rubber on the inside with a pinhole pierced by the tip of the screw. Easy repair - no need for new tyre which is a good thing when they are that expensive and only had about 10,000 miles wear.

Nail in car tyre - DIY?

Aug 12, 2016 21 Replies

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Mike Tomlinson 9 years ago

En el artículo , bm escribió:

Take it to a back street place and pay with folding stuff.

The run-flats on the Mini I had were not supposed to have punctures repaired - new tyre - but the back street shops will do it.

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David 9 years ago

Just an update:

I heeded the majority advice and took the car to our local tyre place.

They put the car up on a hoist, and pulled out a very short piece of metal.

No charge, no problem.

So option (1) would, it seems, have worked. However you can't really beat free.

Cheers

Dave R

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