Tire Patched- any effect on performance?

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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antennahead

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"

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kannibul

IMO, I would think it safe for highway driving and below. I would take it easy and monitor your tire pressure.

Most blowouts occur due to underinflation...but in this case, now the tire itself is SLIGHTLY out of balance - to the point where you more than likely won't feel the vibration caused by it, but it's not completely balanced before.

I'd take it easy. I'd also replace the tire as soon as your able. If it's your DD, then with the colder temps coming around you'll probably be fine until spring.

370Zsteve

Is it an OEM tire or a replacement set? I ask becuase my local tire dealer always gives a prorated discount for replacements, depending on the mileage.

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davidyan

Its a replacement, but the same make and model of the OEM. I actually had a blowout in the sidewall about 2 mos ago and had to replace that tire. This time they were able to patch it.

Which dealer do you go to Steve? thanks.

370Zsteve

Town Fair Tire, but I dunno if they are in Cali..........

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NYBladeZ

as mentioned before, monitor tire pressure you will be fine. If you routinely travel at extreme speeds at that point the probability will have it where something else will play a larger factor in creating an incident than a patched tire.

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antennahead

I drove my 350 with 3 patches, they were actually plugs.... two in one rear tire and one in the other, never had any issues, but this was daily driving and NO track. As long as you are not tracking the car, I think you would be fine.

John

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Z1Performance

zero impact whatsoever, you will be fine

I've even done track days on a patched tire before, in my Z, and had no issues. So long as the procedure was done properly, you're good to go

kenchan

as an experiment ive plugged my own tire in the past using those off-the-shelf plugs
you push into the hole with a tool and pull out and cut.

even after a year or so and more than 10K miles through both summer and winter,
no issue. for street even those do fine. if you had it plugged from the inside out
at a tire store, im sure they will hold up even better. my previous car running
GSD3's had a 1/4" sized huge plug in there done professionally and was able
to run it the remaining life of the tire with no issue.

antennahead

After my incident mentioned above, I did a lot of internet research and came to your same conclusion, then went to Pep Boys and bought one of those kits...... it's now in the rear hatch of the Z.

John

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ezowner

for those who drove fast on patched tires and got no blowout, it simply means that has not happened yet. Not necessarily mean it is safe and you are risk-free.

Important. you run on the patched or you run on the new and get nailed... The result could be the same... it costs your life..it costs you a new tire or/and rim.

Drive safe.

spearfish25

How is water getting into the tread? If the nail goes in and there isn't a leak, then the seal (now including the nail) is water tight. If there IS a leak but the tire has not gone flat, any water would be expelled from the defect. The only way I could see water infiltrating is if the tire is allowed to go flat.

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speedworks

Doesn't take much, you assume you have a perfect seal while the nail is in there, which will never be the case, with the pressure build up and how much the treads/belts shift during every rotation into the contact patch. Again it is usually never noticeable until it fails later on. Usually when you get a nail, there is a slow leak, even if it is very slow (not noticeable over days), there is some leak, hence an opportunity to get water in. It could just be condensation over night, from a warm/cold/warm condition. Now if you never drive through the rain or in any puddles, etc, and your weather is stable, then you have a better chance. It is like car insurance, you gamble with something happening - with tires, it isn't worth it to me, I drive this car like it should be driven, and a failed tire on an on/off ramp/back road, would be not be a good situation (over $200) - and I have seen this happen to tires many, many times.

shumby

^^^^ best tire compaine? was it michelin. By the way I agree with every thing you said. Firestone learnd this lesson twice. I was a classpector for Michelin for meny years and Father was head of QA/QC at the Bridgewater plant.

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