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Slow puncture - to repair or not?

ellism

ellism

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Hi all

Noticed one of my front tyres looking a bit soft today and on checking pressure, it was around 10 psi. A quick grope around the surface of the tyre and I soon found a rusty nail embedded in the tread , i.e. not near the wall. So I feel the tyre is probably repairable. What's the advice on this both officially and not officially? The tyres have only done about 4,000 miles.
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I had the same problem twice on different tyres just after low mileage replacements and have sofar always had them repaired as long as the holes are not anywhere close to the wall. They have lasted well and produced no issue at high speeds so I would always go back and repeat the exercise. I have always watched over the process at the tyre fitter as well just to ensure that the process of pulling through the tyre hole stopper is done properly with the glue and all.

Max
997.1TT
 
Porsche will say replace it, which means a set of two really but I have had a repair done by a reputable company and you are fine all depends on the damage done, it needs a good patch on the inside to fix the puncture. My last repair was done by the tyre shop that Porsche use near the dealership anyway in Hatfield

 
Had a rear puncture on my Spyder several months back but had it repaired on the wheel so no balancing, valve or worries about marking the mint alloys

£10.00 and literally 2 minutes to fix never lost pressure since repair was done. There are lots of pros & cons to this way of fixing a puncture but I have used this method since 2005 on about 6 puntures to date and never had one single problem with the repaired tyres 2 of which were even on run flats that dealers always insist on junking



 
I thought you were asking "repair" vs "leave the nail blocking the hole" - I say that because a few weeks ago I noticed on my TPMS that one rear tyres was 3 or 4 lbs down but it stayed there and I kept meaning to pump it up. After a few days and a 400 mile journey I was walking up a steep hill behind the car and noticed something bright and metal looking on the surface of the tyre.

So I got down and checked. A nail, the top of which had been worn away by my driving. Near centre of tread.

It was Sunday, I was 400 miles from home and needed to be back at work next morning. So I made a judgement and (relatively gently) drove all the 400 miles home with the nail blocking the hole on the grounds that it had very probably been there for the previous 400 miles without causing much harm. I watched the TPMS more than the road on the way home!

I got it repaired on the Monday. I used a small tyre firm where the owner makes a point of doing the work personally on my 993 (I've noticed he just orders his lads around when I take my RAV4 in there!). I was fully prepared to replace the tyre and even asked him if he would advise it (expecting him to want the up-sell) but he said "no way, that's an easy repair".

Anyway - another vote for repair rather than replace if it's near the centre of the tread. Although these days I'm very rarely up at the sorts of speeds our manufacturer expects us to use.
 
I had a proper repair done with a plug and it saw out the life of the tyre quite happily.
Official line is no repairs but as pointed out, thats 2 new tyres required!! [&:]
Also really depends if it's central in the tread or not.. mine was I'm pleased to say

garyw
 
Thanks Gary et al. Very helpful advice. The hole is well away fromn the walls so I'm going to try and get it repaired.

E
 
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