Repair a Puncture - Some Do Some Don't

[Gabby]

Picked this swine up early this morning. Once I got to the tyre place they said they can't repair a Metzler but could repair a Mitchelin or Dunlop...as recommended by the manufacturers.

Any views on this and if you should repair or not....I had to buy a new one.

 

[Funners]

depends entriely on where it is and how clean the hole is...
My local tyre place is very good about repairs and have done a few for me over the years but when he says NO he means it and when he shows me the damage inside the tyre it's easy to see why.
essentially so long as its in the centre section of the tyre with little residula damage to the belts/cords then theres no reason not to repair..if however its near the shoulder then it's a no no..

 

[Slowdown]

I've had Tourance's repaired from similar screw damage.

but as Funners says, when I got a 4" piece of 15mm copper pipe in the rear the internal damage was aamazing and obviously un-repairable.

 

[LBL]

Punctured

My local tyre shop, who i deal with a lot, repaired my brand new Bridgstone rear ( only had done 60 miles ) it was in the centre of the tyre but because of the angle of entry he said to keep an eye on it for going out of shape. 2000 miles later and its still fine.

 

[Marks adventure]

do a search on steptoes puncture he got in Morocco, anything can be repaired. I know i was round the St Eptoe emporium the other week and he still has the tyre.

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

Can't repair a Metzler? I've plugged punctures in Tourances a few times with no problems

Pluck

 

[karnevil]

Gabby I have had a couple of repairs done to Tourance tyres via Buckley tyres,as long as the tyre bloke thinks the tyre is safe to have repaired and there is more than £25.00 worth of mileage in the tyre I get it done.Only problem is Buckley has to send em away so the first time i bought a new one had the old one repaired and keep it as a spare for when it happens again.This way I am never without the bike for more than a couple of hours.

 

[Jonnie Boy]

If thats in middle'ish of the tyre thats fixable. I usually do my own, with proper 'mushroom' patches as a tyre emporium would use, and have pluged similar in tourance's, thrashed 'em ragged n had no problem!

 

[Davy F]

Just picked up a bloody nail myself. So it's off to the tyre shop in the morning to get it repaired. At least there's about 6k on this one as the last puncture I had was a double one in a new tyre which couldn't be fixed.

 

[VAL. H.]

Picked this swine up early this morning. Once I got to the tyre place they said they can't repair a Metzler but could repair a Mitchelin or Dunlop...as recommended by the manufacturers.

Any views on this and if you should repair or not....I had to buy a new one.

I have before And I will again.

Looking at the pic your mate Philip is quite close to the centre and in the tread block.
I'd repair it and carry on useing it till it's worn out if it was mine. Did nearly 10'000miles on an Annakee I put two plugs in a couple of years ago.

I carry in my topbox a full repair kit for tubless tyres as well as a mini compressor.

Mind you, since I started using TKCs I haven't had to use it on my own bike. Got a couple of others out of the doodoo though.

Val.

 

[davedyer]

On one of my many Con & Use courses we had a speaker from Micheline who said that their tyres could be repaired any number of times as long as they were done to BS Standard - ie at a proper tyre shop.

 

[Mr K]

Had multiple plugs put in an Anakee in Romania by a backstreet garage, after I ran out of plugs and CO2 cannisters.......rode it 35km flat on a dirt road to get there.

Tyre took me another 3000 miles before I replaced it.

Manufacturer has no bearing on if a tyre is plug-able or not...

 

[Our Gee]

Think I,d be more concerned about the "crack or split like" effect which is visible at the bottom left in the Picture as it,s in the "thin" part of the Tyre.

 

[Gabby]

Think I,d be more concerned about the "crack or split like" effect which is visible at the bottom left in the Picture as it,s in the "thin" part of the Tyre.

With ones long gravel drive I have got used to my tyres looking well "cracked and split like" - Never been a problem only when a screw decides to do it's stuff.

Surley the Off Road types are used to this as well!

Take a real close look at your own tyres and I bet you will see some on yours......

 

[Steptoe]

do a search on steptoes puncture he got in Morocco, anything can be repaired. I know i was round the St Eptoe emporium the other week and he still has the tyre.

here's the puncture. Repaired with two plugs in the hole, and ridden back from morocco.
Then used on a Lejog, where it failed at honiton on the way down to lands end. Repeatedly plugged all the way to glasgow, it had 5 plugs in the one hole .

just keep plugging them. if it goes flat you can still ride for miles to a tyre/ repair shop without the tyre coming off the rim, i was going along at speeds up 80mph for a few miles and it stayed on

Your puncture looks like it's a self tapper - unscrew the screw, put some rubber solution on it and screw it back in place- and i bet that will last the life of the tyre.