Thread: When your tire is screwed (literally)...

As long as its the tread and not the sidewall, tyre place will fix her up no worries, they use a mushroom plug from the inside.

You can buy tyre repair kits from supercheap and the like, or 4x4 shops, technically not legal for on road use but they work perfectly well too.

Tyre shop usually $20-30 as far as I recall, small DIY kit about $15-20, and has enough strips to plug half a dozen or so.

Main difference, tyre shop goes from the inside of the tyre, DIY you ram a strip through from the outside and bonded into place. As I said, I've used both, and would just DIY from now on. But cheap either way really.

I recently had the same in my 101 but as it has tubes I knew the screw was in the tread only as the tyre was still full of air.

I also had one in a tubeless tyre a while back and had the same dilemma. I ultimately decided that there was always a chance the tyre would deflate at high speed and possibly cause an accident.

I think that while the risk is low of a failure with the screw in, it is still a possibility and as such the risk is too great.

Take the tyre in to get the screw removed and the tyre properly repaired. Resist the urge to remove it yourself and repair as the repairs you can do yourself are meant to be temporary though I do have one in my spare tyre that has been there for a few years.

Garry

Originally Posted by seano87

As long as its the tread and not the sidewall, tyre place will fix her up no worries, they use a mushroom plug from the inside.

You can buy tyre repair kits from supercheap and the like, or 4x4 shops, technically not legal for on road use but they work perfectly well too.

Tyre shop usually $20-30 as far as I recall, small DIY kit about $15-20, and has enough strips to plug half a dozen or so.

Main difference, tyre shop goes from the inside of the tyre, DIY you ram a strip through from the outside and bonded into place. As I said, I've used both, and would just DIY from now on. But cheap either way really.

Awesome! Thanks for that!

I eventually managed to buy a professional "mushroom" kit to plug tread holes from the inside so I can do all my own screw damage repairs. They are permanent and safe. The portable kits are for fitting from the outside and are deemed to be for emergencies only. The main reason for doing the plug repair is to prevent water getting at the steel belts and causing separation later on. So just have it done soonish by a tyre shop and it will be fine.

Hey Wil,

As other's have said....I had one in a previous tyre ( note not tire ), took it to my tyre bloke and he fixed it in a jiffy ( well maybe about 20 or so minutes),

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

Hey Wil,

I had one in a previous tyre ( note not tire ),

Regards

Stevo

Not wanting to hyjack the thread, but

The [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary"]Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image"><img alt="Question book-new.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png[/ame] suggests that the word derives from "attire",[1] while other sources suggest a connection with the verb "to tie".[2] From the 15th to the 17th centuries the spellings tire and tyre were used without distinction;[1] but by 1700 tyre had become obsolete and tire remained as the settled spelling.[1] In the UK, the spelling tyre was revived in the 19th century for pneumatic tires, though many continued to use tire for the iron variety. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times"]The Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:TheTimes.png" class="image"><img alt="TheTimes.png" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/TheTimes.png/245px-TheTimes.png"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/f/fe/TheTimes.png/245px-TheTimes.png[/ame] newspaper in Britain was still using tire as late as 1905.[3] The [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition"]Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Encyclopaedia_Britannica_1911.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Encyclopaedia_Britannica_1911.svg/300px-Encyclopaedia_Britannica_1911.svg.png"@@AMEPARAM@@ commons/thumb/0/02/Encyclopaedia_Britannica_1911.svg/300px-Encyclopaedia_Britannica_1911.svg.png[/ame] states that "[t]he spelling 'tyre' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US",[2] while [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_English_Usage"]A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] of 1926 says that "there is nothing to be said for 'tyre', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own [sc. British] older & the present American usage".[1] However, over the course of the 20th century tyre became established as the standard British spelling.

So tire is technically correct and tyre is the ring in.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Not wanting to hyjack the thread, but

The Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia of 1926 says that "there is nothing to be said for 'tyre', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own [sc. British] older & the present American usage".[1] However, over the course of the 20th century tyre became established as the standard British spelling.

So tire is technically correct and tyre is the ring in.

Spoil sport , though Im pretty sure it's hijack...booyah...in ya face ,

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

I had one in a previous tyre ( note not tire ), took it to my tyre bloke and he fixed it in a jiffy ( well maybe about 20 or so minutes)

Just looked at my original post.. can't believe I spelt it differently in the subject to what I did in the post body ...

Anyway.. tyre/tire is fixed. $35 at local Bob Jane. They gave it back to me with the alloy rim filthy too! But they did hang it on the spare holder for me. :-) clean hands, yay!

w.