Puncture repairs

[Gershon]

Hi,

I discovered a nail had punctured my rear tyre last night, but thanks to Motomail having a late night I managed to buy a repair kit.

Got the offending nail removed and the repair all complete following instructions. It doesn't seem to have leaked today.

Does anyone have any experience with these sorts of repair kits and knows how reliable the repairs are?

I'm planning on getting the repair seen to by a shop but just wondered about experiences here as well.

Cheers.

[MSTRS:Me]

The externally applied repairs kits are like the Jap spare tyre...get you home only. Get the hole plugged from the inside ASAP

[Gershon]

Cheers,

Good way to think of it. I thought as much and have got it fixed properly now. Patch worked well for a day though!

[gijoe1313]

Yowsa! Someone actually used one of those kits? I got one sitting in me bike and it seems quite a few others too (the day you don't have it ... Murphy will turn up )

So how much did the repair job cost to do it properly?

[MSTRS:Me]

Mine was $34, but I did take the wheel off myself

[classic zed]

If someone brings me in a wheel I charge the same as a car i.e. $20 for a puncture repair, obviously more if I have to take the wheel out

[TonyB]

Call me stupid and lucky to be alive, but I've done a track day and a thousand or so k's with a properly installed, externaly applied, puncture repair on the rear tyre of my FZR1000. Desperate times....

[98tls]

Call me stupid and lucky to be alive, but I've done a track day and a thousand or so k's with a properly installed, externaly applied, puncture repair on the rear tyre of my FZR1000. Desperate times....

OK..........Tony your stupid.......................

[georgiepie]

Hi,
Does anyone have any experience with these sorts of repair kits and knows how reliable the repairs are?

What does the kit use as the plug? Is it a rubber gromett or sticky string?

[Buddha#81:Me]

Done properly using the correct "mushroom plug", glues, liner repairer and in the correct area there is no reason to not run a tyre out. Reputable tyre repair suppliers put alot of research into structural strength and most repairs done right will be good as gold.

[M1CRO:Me]

I used the repair kit and it did last around 50km, then it went flat again (had a pillion at the time).. Still a little while from home, so I used it again.. Again another 50km or so - but I was home by that stage..

Have heard some very reliable comments, but in my view, it is only a temporary measure until you can get the puncture repaired properly - I certainly wouldnt rely upon it nor keep it in there any longer than necessary

My 10c worth (subject to CPI)

[Gershon]

The proper repair cost $50.00 - that was me riding the bike into the shop, waiting while it was done and riding out again.

They used the mushroom plug and checked the tyre out as well.

The guy told me a story of a rider who brought his punctured rear tyre in that couldn't be fixed because the nail (or something) had gone sideways into the footprint of the tyre. They had to replace whole tyre because the whole was like a cut rather than a small hole. Bummer for the rider because he'd only just worn the tyre in!

[Pixie]

Call me stupid and lucky to be alive, but I've done a track day and a thousand or so k's with a properly installed, externaly applied, puncture repair on the rear tyre of my FZR1000. Desperate times....

Ditto.I never bothered to Get the puncture "properly fixed".
When you experience how much force is required to ram one of those dogturds into a tyre,you will realise it aint gonna fall out.
I have occassionally backed up the plug with slime if the plug was leaking a little.
But tyre changers hate discovering a tyre they are working on is full of slime.

[Pixie]

I used the repair kit and it did last around 50km, then it went flat again (had a pillion at the time).. Still a little while from home, so I used it again.. Again another 50km or so - but I was home by that stage..

Have heard some very reliable comments, but in my view, it is only a temporary measure until you can get the puncture repaired properly - I certainly wouldnt rely upon it nor keep it in there any longer than necessary

My 10c worth (subject to CPI)

If you did it correctly it wouldn't have gone down again.
I have used these things many times, and never had any more than a very slow leak,( 5lbs / week )

[classic zed]

The string type repair should only be treated as a temporary, it will not pass a Wof inspection.

Taken from the VIRM

Condition
Tyres (excluding spare tyres and space-saver tyres)
7. There are signs that a tyre is fouling on another part
of the vehicle.
8. A tyre shows any of the following damage:
a) a lump or bulge that is likely to be caused by
separation or partial failure of the tyre structure,
or
b) a cut in a sidewall or tread more than 25 mm
long that reaches the body cords, or
c) exposed or cut body cords, or
d) the tread of a retreaded tyre shows signs of
separation, or
e) nails or other sharp objects embedded in the tyre.
9. A tyre has a string type repair visible from the
outside.
10. A tyre does not have a tread pattern depth of at least
1.5 mm (excluding any tie-bar or tread depth
indicator strip) across at least three-quarters of the
tread width and around the whole circumference of
the tyre.

for safety sake get the tyre repaired as soon as possible