Small nail in tire, plug or inside patch?
 

Since the temperature have been dropping and I don't drive the car daily the PSI of the tires has been dropping at around 5PSI.

However there is one rear tire that drops 10PSI. My first tought was that the tire caught a nail during a trip to W. Virgina but I could not located. Today after a close inspection I found that is a litte tiny nail in the rear tire in between (channel) the beefy grip part of the tire.

Now, I can do the plug myself.

However with a patch they have to disassemble the tire and not a lot of shops around here have the equipment for 19" tires, plus I don't want then to damage the OEM rim and go thru all the troubles.

So the question is by you guys experience, would you guys recommend a plug or an inside patch?

Thanks!

Patch it! $30 is worth your safety. When you go to the tire shop, just let them know that you don't have any scratches (have them visually confirm it), and you should be good to go.

As an additional precaution, look for shops with the 'touchless tire mount' machine.

Just replace the whole tire not worth if you use those as track tires also.



DAN

Thanks, but I don't track the Z.

Patch. You can only patch a performance tire 2x before replacing it, even for street driving.

inside patch

A plug is fine, a patch is better, and a new tire well thats just more $$

My tire shop doesn't even do plugs anymore. They do a "permanent" patch. I had two patches on the same tire within one week and have not has any problems with them.

patch on the inside, much safer.

Ahh..No bueno! I'd see if they could patch the tire from the inside.

I just replaced my rear tires with RE-11's thanks to a large chunk of metal in my tire. Instead of patching, I opted to replace both rear tires because they we're almost due to be replaced anyways.

I've put 3 vulcanizing plugs in my rear RE050As and tracked them at 125mph at Road America afterwards. Plugs are fine. If you want to buy into the hype that you need to replace or patch, be my guest. Worst that happens with a plug is that it comes out and you have a slow deflation...and that won't happen with a vulcanizing plug.

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It is a little tiny nail, however I don't have a problem with getting it patch inside, the problem is to find the right Tire Shop that IS NOT going to f*ck my OEM rims. :mad:

Thanks, by any chance to do have the Part Number?

Is not coming up as vulcanizing plug on the search.

Replied to your PM. For everyone else, all of the BlackJack plugs are vulcanized (or self-vulcanizing). Just look on their site under the 'passenger vehicle repair kits' after clicking 'tire repair kits' on the left-hand sidebar.

you could go on Tirerack.com and look for the list of their preferred installers in your area, call them up and see what it would cost for a patch if that's the way you still want to go.