F430CS

Please recommend a good tire shop (with location) for repairing a flat tire in Markham area. Flat tire is on a 19 inch wheel. How much should the repair cost? Thank you.

Dale Gribble

plugged from the inside out properly....no more than 80 bucks or 1 hr labour to dismount, plug and remount the wheel.

Mark Lue

Superior Tire on Laidlaw or Active Green and Ross on Hwy#7 just west of Markham Rd. ~$30 (taxes-in), they mark the tire on the wheel before removing it, then apply a patch from the inside of the tire.

F430CS

Thank you

MattAu

Any current/recent recommendation? I need to repair my front tire before putting it back on. The nail is right in the middle of the tread resulting in a very slow leak.

Zookie

id suggest Autowerks but they are jam packed right now... But Allen @ Simplytire.com would also be reccomended... Give him a call

Sultan

In Markham, Steelcase wheel's and mags (near Woodbine & Steeles). Haven't taken my p-car there, but my honda's/acura's have gone there. Not sure how much they charge for a plug. Give them a call, they can probably give you a quote over the phone.

F430CS

I originally asked this question. After visiting several shops, I got it fixed from Autowerks. Others were charging too much and pretending that they were doing a favour for me by fixing 19" tire. I highly recommend Autowerks.

Edit: Autowerks is NOT in Markham by the way. Try Mark Lue's suggestion if it needs to be done in Markham.

pongobaz

If you're in the west end, Kipling Tire is good too. Owner is a Porsche guy.

MattAu

Thanks to all. I tried calling Simply Tire and got no answer, I also remember I emailed them before when I was looking for snow tires and also received no response. My luck I suppose. They would have been closer to me.

I end up calling Steelcase and they answered the phone. I was given two options: $20 plug from outside, or $30 plug from inside. They told me there is no difference as long as I don't track the car. Well since I was there, I figure I will get it fixed properly and paid them $30 to have the tire plug from the inside. It took about 40 mins as there were quite a number of people waiting to get their winter setup swapped. Good thing my tire/wheel was off the car so I didn't have to line up for too long.

Christien

If you can see the nail and it's a slow leak, get the tire repair kit from Canadian Tire. $12, last time I bought one. Takes about 10 min, easy DIY. I have a bad habit of sweeping out the garage into the driveway, screws, nails and all, and I've repaired a slow leak from punctures on 2 of our cars. Both repairs were perfect the first time and lasted years with no recurrence of the leak. The only case where I wouldn't do this would be track tires that are subjected to significantly more heat and wear.

petee_c

I agree w christien. I've done the sticky pipe cleaner plug kit on a bunch of tires. Ok well maybe 5 times total. My wife is currently the screw magnet. I've got 2 plugs in one tire. I put on her summer all-seasons and had a screw in it within 24hrs

I believe some places have tire plugging as a free service when u buy the tires, however this might not be the case in the gta where u seem to have cheaper tire prices than us in KW.

For me it takes seriously less than ten minutes at home to fix it. Front tires are even less than 5 minutes as i've done them with the wheel still on the car. Just roll the tire so that the offending screw is at the 9 or 3 o'clock position and the turn the wheel out to full lock. The kit usually contains enough plugs to do 5 repairs.

Zookie

I guess your luck, they are super busy... you should have just dropped by if they were close to you

ronnie993tt

CAA will sometimes do it as part of their service with a simple outside plug........