Slow puncture... fixable?

Yes, a Bowes sealfast plug will do the job.

'fraid not. The puncture falls outside the safely repairable zone. Would you like a new tyre?

Gorilla glue will work, if you believe the adverts.

I think it?s probably too close to the edge of the tread for repair alas. ;-)

Tim

I have total faith in your abilities.

Where have you planted the rubber tree?

The question is, did your wheel-arch liner survive the flying rubber?

Is the rim reusable?

fix it with a new tyre.....

And a trip to Boots hearing aid centres ?. How could you miss that ?

It probably deflated in 10 to 15 secs - started with a intermittent rubbing sound and a bit of minor vibration. But it was not immediately obvious what was going on. It did not pull to the side or tweak the steering despite being on the offside front wheel. However it got progressively worse, so it was obvious something was up.

I was doing about 50 in a roadworks section of a dual carriageway between concrete barriers so there was no place to pull off the road immediately. However there was a slip road coming up, so I could slow and get onto that. The last 10 yards or so, felt pretty harsh! Fortunately the left lane was coned off with enough gap between the cones to get through, so I had a relatively protected space to change the wheel. I was not expecting it to be in a good state by then, but I must admit the amount of damage was surprising!

The amazing thing was there was no damage to the rim at all, although it took the tyre place some time to get the remains off the rim.

(the irony being I had ordered 4 new tyres for it the day before, so the tyre place said they would phone when they came in. However I got called out to an emergency at a clients in the morning, and so got the call to say the tyres were ready while on the way about 15 mins before that happened!)

Run flat tyres have their uses, but *not* as my BMW-owning neighbour did when the dashboard warning light came on, he just cancelled it and carried on driving, on the mistaken belief that he had 'run flat tyres' !

How long before he worked out otherwise?

When I told him that I could hear the noise the tyre was making as his wife drove off every day. Could hear the car heading 200 yards up the road, then 2 right turns and travelling parallel to the road where we live.

The whole family had just come back from a sunday trip and the tyre was so hot it almost burnt my hand. This is after driving on a 'flat' run-flat tyre for over a week !. It was at that point that he said he had cancelled the dashboard warning light. It was a recent new set of tyres too, so that was £200+ down the drain.

I think they were Continental tyres. Must be pretty tough to survive abuse like that.

A roll or two of duct tape will fix that

Hopefully not to the tyre place that did the 4th year apprentices new tyres on his Scirocco.

They put the wrong sized tyres on and ripped off the front wings.

Stupid children.

Bill

If you get a puncture in a run flat I believe it is usually deemed unrepairable anyway. Horse's mouth: Continental: Do not recommend the repair of any SSR (Self Supporting Run flat) this is because the hard inserts within the tyres sidewall can be damaged if the tyre has been ran on in an under inflated condition. This damage is not noticeable or visible and if a tyre is put back into service this could potentially be extremely dangerous. Although the tyre may have lost little pressure there will be no visible signs if this underinflation has caused the secondary damage mentioned and for that reason we cannot recommend them for repair.

:)

Had similar incompetence with the Lexus I owned, but no damage. The fitter swapped nearside wheels, with the rear being larger.

Tim will be along and claim that gunge stuff will fix it and prevent it happening again.