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never patched a performance tire but have plugged/patch tires in my other cars many times. never an issue.
Originally Posted by Bruce In Philly
Bummer. This has not been my experience. I have plugged these high performance tires a few times and never had an issue.
After your patch, did you have any vibration as this would indicate a cord was severed?
Peace
Bruce in Philly
Originally Posted by OKB
Ive plugged (string plug) dozens of tires and never had a problem , its possible they plugged a hole too big for a plug, or it was not put in correctly and came out some way, or there was another hole that opened up , but I have always trusted them
It will be interesting to know if the patch was done incorrectly. When I read BLOWOUT, I thought rubber everywhere, steel belt, rim ground down to the spokes.
To me this looks like another flat. I'm not suggesting it wasn't scary. The more miles you do, the more the chances. Looks as if there was no damage to your car.
My ski buddy had six flats last year. Bad luck for him. Six new tires purchased.
Also, are you certain it was the plug and patch that failed? You may have simply had another flat in a different area on the same tire. What evidence demonstrated that the flat came from the plugged/patched area?
Ive plugged (string plug) dozens of tires and never had a problem , its possible they plugged a hole too big for a plug, or it was not put in correctly and came out some way, or there was another hole that opened up , but I have always trusted them
Ugh- someone here called it and I would have never believed in two weeks the same tire would get hit twice, but it did. The patch was holding fine. After I got it home it occurred to me I should check all the tires and it looks like I have a metal fragment in the right front! There must have been metal debris on I95 I drove through. South Florida had it in for that tire :-(
Thanks for the update. I hesitated to post my scepticism that the plug blew out. Stuff can happen, I understand that but I've plugged dozens of tires - not even a plug-patch/mushroom patch and not had a problem.
I'm now addicted to the warm weather after living in NY state most of my life. I'm cold when it gets into the low 70's now
Thanks for the update. I have plugged my 911 tires myself and never had any problems. The worst that I knew would occur would be slow leaks. So it is good to know what happened in your case.
10-20-2015, 12:18 PM
