Puncture repair kit - a couple of questions

[Cheesy Mike]

I just removed a nail from my front tyre and plugged the hole using the supplied repair kit.

Should I inflate the tyre straight away or leave it a while?

If they tyre stays inflated and survives a test ride, am I OK to leave it in or do I really need to get the tyre replaced (like the instructions say)?

Mike

 

[Commuter]

Pump

Pump it up.

Done it twice and never a problem. The glue sets dead quick.

 

[Commuter]

If they tyre stays inflated and survives a test ride, am I OK to leave it in or do I really need to get the tyre replaced (like the instructions say)?

Mike

I still have mine on, depends on mileage / age and position of pucture. Is it on one of the "tiles" of the grip and how old / much mileage has the tyre done?

N

 

[Cheesy Mike]

Re: Re: Puncture repair kit - a couple of questions

I still have mine on, depends on mileage / age and position of pucture. Is it on one of the "tiles" of the grip and how old / much mileage has the tyre done?

N

Tyre (Tourance) has done about 4000 miles. The puncture was in one of the grooves between the tiles.

Mike

 

[Commuter]

Replace

If I was you I would replace it mate. If on the tiles, never really a problem, the groves are the bit that takes all the movements. FOr 90 notes, I would prefer to know that the bike will not have tyre splitting moment.

4k, can't be that far off a change anyway? I get 7k out of mine.

Recently got a screw in the tile and repaired it, got it checked by my tyre guys and they said the above.

HTH, Nick

 

[BBB61]

Re: Replace

4k, can't be that far off a change anyway? I get 7k out of mine.

Is that out of a front or rear Nick?

Bob

 

[bmwrich58]

4k, can't be that far off a change anyway? I get 7k out of mine.

Are we talking Mezzi Tourances??? Last set gave me 13K miles,and currently I'm at 11K with this newer set.
What am I doing wrong..???...
Shouldn't I be wearing these skins out earlier...???.....

Should I inflate the tyre straight away or leave it a while?

Go ahead, why not..??..
Rema (found in BM's as a bike tire repair kit) makes a pretty good tire repair product (as long as it is installed properly),
it's just the dang plugs are too big for the averaged sized nail hole most of us experience.

 

[mpriestley]

it's just the dang plugs are too big for the averaged sized nail hole most of us experience

easier to make the hole bigger to fit the plug that to make the plug bigger to fit the hole he said stating the obvious

 

[MasterDabber]

easier to make the hole bigger to fit the plug that to make the plug bigger to fit the hole he said stating the obvious

You're supposed to push the metal plunger thingy all the way into the hole several times before you start putting the plug in anyway. I think this is to roughen up the hole with the abrasive bit near the handle and I guess this also opens up the size of the hole if it is too small.

 

[Cheesy Mike]

You're supposed to push the metal plunger thingy all the way into the hole several times before you start putting the plug in anyway. I think this is to roughen up the hole with the abrasive bit near the handle and I guess this also opens up the size of the hole if it is too small.

I am so glad to be reading your reply in the context of the rest of the thread. Otherwise I would have fainted.

As for Tourance wear I get 7.5K from a rear and 15k from the front. I did once change both at 7.5k but is seemed like and extravagance.

Mike

 

[Commuter]

Re: Re: Replace

Is that out of a front or rear Nick?

Bob

7 to 8k on a rear max bob

 

[bmwrich58]

easier to make the hole bigger to fit the plug that to make the plug bigger to fit the hole he said stating the obvious

Why would one want to create more damage to the tire by making the hole bigger???

I carry plugs that are small in size and perfect for nail hole repairs. And if "need be" more than one plug could be inserted in the same hole to make the proper repair.

These plugs are used commerically in the " trucktire retread industry" for filling nail holes in tire carcasses before they are retreaded.
They also are used as temporary repairs in all tires, until a proper repair can be made, like a patch or plug/patch repair.

Checkout my web site below, for a photo of a cross section of an installed patch/plug in a Metz Z-4 tire.

You're supposed to push the metal plunger thingy all the way into the hole several times before you start putting the plug in anyway. I think this is to roughen up the hole with the abrasive bit near the handle and I guess this also opens up the size of the hole if it is too small.

The whole idea of the "rasp area" abrasive bit on the tool (that's the rough looking part of the BM tire plug tool) is to help remove any sharp edges from the steel belts inside the tire if the "said tire" is steelbelted. So it won't rub and cut the plug in half. It also helps clean out the hole to allow easier penetration of the tire plug

 

[mpriestley]

doh

the point of my comment is that if the plug supplied as standard by BMW is, as you originally observed, too big for the nail hole, it is, in the absence of an alternative, easier to widen the hole to make a good fit than it would be to make a too small plug bigger to fit a large hole. Your solution of inserting multiple plugs in a hole bigger than the available plug is of course elegant and appropriate and I thank you for showing me, and others, the way.


Where do you get your very small plugs from anyway?