Having spent a couple of years of my youth recapping tires, I can attest
to the notion that plug repairs are not a good idea. The plug forces the
internal cord to spread apart, whereas the internal patch method does
not. Any tire that had been plugged was rejected as a usable core for
capping... they were almost guaranteed to die a horrible death on the
road.
Given this society's current *need* to sue, I'm surprised the tire plug
products are still on the market.
-- lonestar
On 25 Mar 2003 at 19:03, Mike wrote:
> at work some friends and I were discussing tire repair. I had
> mentioned how I had used a plug kit to repair a nail hole in my truck
> tire. it worked great. I was told that this is not a good idea to use
> this method to repair a tire and that the tire should be removed and
> repaired from the inside. I don't know much about tire repair so I
> thought I would put it out on the forum for discussion.
>
> mike
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