A tyre nicely collected part of a hinge causing a narrow cut some 20mm long in a tyre. The cut is a nominal 45 degrees diagonal to the tyre axis but close to the centre.
I'm presuming such a long cut would render it unrepairable?
This is a pretty new tyre for a 4x4 so does anyone know the criteria for when a puncture is repairable?
On or off road? It wouldn't be a problem to a local mechanic in a third world country.
Very much on-road. They try stayed up for quite a long time without any visible distortion around the hole/slit.
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Good old spell checkers!
There are a couple of approaches to this. The DIY hack/bodge would be to glue/wedge a few "bacon strips" into the cut and see how it lasts (we did this many years ago on a lawn tractor that had run over a paint scraper, it seemed to work OK. I repaired a puncture a few weeks ago with a single bacon strip, but that was caused by a staple and was so small I had difficulty getting the tool into the hole. The proper permanent approach is to pull the tyre off the rim, grind the repair surface and apply a hot vulcanised patch to the inside or possibly both sides. But I think it would probably have to be a fairly valuable tyre for this to be worthwhile - it's common for construction and agricultural tyres.
These are nominal £100 mark with very little wear. I have tyre place in mind and shall contact them on Tuesday.
stick in a tube
No longer legal in the UK I'm afraid.
worked for me
Is that because bacon is untouchable by an ever increasing population of aliens.
what?
Beware QuickFit when I had an unrepairable puncture the branch charged me £106 for a replacement tyre when the same tyre if ordered online was £159! It took a lot of emails before they agreed to refund the difference.
Mike
Correction the branch charge £206! Mike
Hmm! So they charged you £43 more after email negotiation?! :-)
I assumed that might be the case.
I'm having to scrap the tyre which after a year's inflation is now £160. I have a spare rim so can have maintain a pair of equally (un)worm tyres of the same make etc keeping the other as a very good spare.
See my correction post. Mike
This seems to be common practice with some of the chains - three prices i) Order and pay on-line ii) Telephone first for the price (remembering to ask if balancing, valve* etc. and VAT is included). iii) Just turn up.
The other con is the free safety check or free wheel alignment check. They will always find something wrong and the repair or adjustment charge will be high.
*Valves may not get routinely replaced these days as many have the TPMS sensors attached.
I'd love the local tyre place (big chain) to offer me a free wheel alignment check on my kit-car - as they have previously refused to adjust it, when I have requested them to, as "it is not in our book and we can only use the figures from our book". Another place nearby simply used the figures I supplied (recommended by the owners' club and within the range given by the kit manufacturer) and simply asked me to sign the invoice to say that it was set to figures supplied by me.
Since then I have made my own jig for checking it myself - basically a giant G-clamp that I can check the distance across the back and front edges of the pair of wheels and just look for the difference in fractions of a mm from the angle turned by the "clamping" screw.
I've used a string going around the car from the back wheels to the front. If the wheelbase front to back an adjustment in any measurement must be made.
I've also got one of these though I didn't pay the advertised price:
Just use a piece of string!
Mike
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