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Originally Posted by spearfish25
Ridiculous. Do you own an oil field? If I bought 4 new tires for every time I got a nail in a tire, I'd need a second mortgage on my home. I just did a track day with nails in both of my rear tires. I found the nails when I swapped to my winter tires later that week. Guess what...everything was fine.
If you get a nail, get it patched and stop worrying unless you're Michael Schumacher and planning a 24hr Le Mans with your Z.
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The tire stores have become masters of quoting "we can't patch that, it will reduce the speed rating", as well as "the nail is too close to the sidewall, we are not allowed to patch it" ................ translation....... "now fork out $350 for a new high performance tire, we're happy to sell you one at our price, forget Tirerack, you have a flat here and now". I had that game played on me about a month ago..... too close to the sidewall? Damn nail was almost 2 inches in from the side of the tire. It's a racket to sell more tires. Then, if the tire is leaking air fast enough and they have you over a barrel, they will suggest "and you might want to spend another $75 for the "road hazzard insurance", so next time this happens you'll get a new tire. But guess what, if down the road the new tire happens to pick up a nail, suddenly you hear: "oh, it's ok, this is one we can safely patch"
