neil.schneider

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neil.schneider

okbarnett

Did you say you lived in Philadelphia or Pocahontas Arkansas? I know they have trouble working on those sports cars in small towns

drcollie

You guys are CRAZY (and lucky) taking your Porsche wheels to Costco. They do not have 5-arm machines and the risk of damage to the wheel is high. Consider yourselves very lucky if you got a clean install.....Also be aware that any patched tire should be replaced, you no longer have a speed rating on it.

captainkirk

What boggles my mind, Porsche spends so much money on R&D and can not find a proper solution for Tires. The roads in North east are quite bad (US), and we always have to worry about tire damage, I know it is not common, but this year alone, I had rim damage and just few years ago...My Pirelli's got ripped by those stupid metal boards they stick on the road sometimes, and I was going like 5 mph avoiding them...and still got hit.

Don't get me started on Centerlock wheels....(see all my previous threads on this)

ClassJ

Plug kits are the way to go. They work and hold extremely well for street use if install correctly.

If I can’t get to the hole I pull the tire and do it myself.

Worst case I bring the entire wheel and tire to a shop.

I am sick of dealers pushing new tires instead of patches or plugs. A well done repair for a hole not too close to th sidewall is perfectly ok.

Bud Taylor

show up dont tell them you own a porsche just say 20 inch tires and almost any tire shop can do it. Put a plug in it from walmart before you leave, a million utube vids on this.

drcollie

I have had extensive discussions with tire engineers from Michelin and BF Goodrich and this simply is not true. I say this not to take issue with your opinion, but to point out the facts that any time a tire is punctured the steel bands in the tread are broken. This does two things, first no matter how good the patch or plug, water will eventually work its way into the repair area and rust the belts in the vicinity of the repair, which can lead to a catastrophic tire failure at speed (i.e., blowout). This is why any tire that is repaired automatically loses its speed rating and is not considered safe for high speed, performance driving. While this may be just fine for an old F150 lumbering down to Home Depot at 35 mph on a Sunday, you need to be aware that on a Porsche you have a compromised tire that can fail in high stress situations.

Porsche dealers do not repair tires - at least I have never found one that does. BMW dealers don't either. They're not "pushing" new tires, they have a huge liability factor in the repair were they to do it, and its known to be a temporary repair at best until you get a new tire on the car. Ask a tire engineer.

MHarris

I picked up a screw in a rear tire on my 991.1-GTS a couple weeks ago. Yes I have center locks. I removed the wheel/tire and called my Porsche dealer. Yep they do not repair tires. I asked who they would recommend and they gave me the name of a local independent. Took the wheel down and while the place looked a bit humble the owner was an SCCA racer and assured me he could patch correctly & safely without scratching the black GTS wheel. They used a patch/plug that frankly was a neat technology. Think inside patch that has a solid rubber tube attached at it's center that is pulled through the "prepared" hole. He did as advertised without even the smallest scratch on the wheel. The curious thing for me was that he made a mark on the wheel & tire before dismounting and re-aligned for the re-mount so he did not need to rebalance. He said the patch weighs 3grams and I would not need the rebalance BUT if I felt any vibration come back and he would take me to a different shop for a road force balance on him. Good as his word, smooth as silk.

mrhebert

Within a week of purchasing my new Michelin PS2s, I had two small nail punctures in one of my rear 305s on my 997. Discount tire pulled the rim, patched the tire twice, and in two years, it hasn't lost any pressure to matter. So, try Discount Tire, they will patch it.

Jim137a

aCayenneFan

BMWs use runflats. By the time the tire has made its way back to the dealer after a flat, it is beyond repair.

MHarris

Jim137a... I too cary a stop&go + nitrogen bottle in my car as well for emergencies. The stop&go is a good design but not nearly the technology of a good patch-plug device. However the stop&go can be utilized without dismounting the tire from wheel that is needed to utilize the patch-plug.

neil.schneider