RFT - Puncture Repaired

[ric19]

Only last week was I thinking "I havent had a punture for ages" of course yesterday the pressure light came on and I found a lovely nail right in the centre of the tyre.. rang Stratstone who of course said I needed a new tyre, so rang a few local tyre places that were a bit put off when I mentioned 19" 30 profile tyres and stated that they couldnt guarantee not to damage the alloys, anyway I took it to one of them, who fixed it, put a new valve in and balanced it for........£15............... so result and the alloy has not a mark on it.. so double result

[firebobby]

Only last week was I thinking "I havent had a punture for ages" of course yesterday the pressure light came on and I found a lovely nail right in the centre of the tyre.. rang Stratstone who of course said I needed a new tyre, so rang a few local tyre places that were a bit put off when I mentioned 19" 30 profile tyres and stated that they couldnt guarantee not to damage the alloys, anyway I took it to one of them, who fixed it, put a new valve in and balanced it for........£15............... so result and the alloy has not a mark on it.. so double result

I was told that if you drive RFT when punctured, this weakens the walls of the tyre and makes them dangerous. This was from a mate who deals with tyres, so he wasn't doing the hard sell, not that I had a puncture at the time.

[cj10jeeper]

Only last week was I thinking "I havent had a punture for ages" of course yesterday the pressure light came on and I found a lovely nail right in the centre of the tyre.. rang Stratstone who of course said I needed a new tyre, so rang a few local tyre places that were a bit put off when I mentioned 19" 30 profile tyres and stated that they couldnt guarantee not to damage the alloys, anyway I took it to one of them, who fixed it, put a new valve in and balanced it for........£15............... so result and the alloy has not a mark on it.. so double result

I was told that if you drive RFT when punctured, this weakens the walls of the tyre and makes them dangerous. This was from a mate who deals with tyres, so he wasn't doing the hard sell, not that I had a puncture at the time.

I totally agree with this. If you drive on it for any distance the sidewall carries the cars weight and destroys itself. Clearly visible when you remove the tyre with lots of rubber debris in the tyre
If it's partially deflated or you spot it on the drive and take it in for immediate repair, then not an issue.
Judgement call really and separately the location of the puncture

[ric19]

Mine was never totally flat, only lost 5 pounds and as I carry a pump was abe to pump up so not an issue..

[cj10jeeper]

Mine was never totally flat, only lost 5 pounds and as I carry a pump was abe to pump up so not an issue..

That's the sort of circumstance where I agree a repair is safe and sensible

[ric19]

From what I have read, the only difference is that a tyre fitter can't assertain from looking at the inside of the side walls if they have been damaged by driving on them, as a non run flat would show marks that a run flat would not exhibit, and Bridgestone state that tyres CAN be repaired within certain criteria

[jonrx7uk]

Mine was never totally flat, only lost 5 pounds and as I carry a pump was abe to pump up so not an issue..

That's the sort of circumstance where I agree a repair is safe and sensible

Similar thing happened to me, did another 2000 miles on the repaired tyre. As long as you don't run on a fully deflated runflat they're fine

[Mr Tidy]

I had a repair on a Pirelli P Zero RFT on my 123d that lasted another 11,000 miles with no issues.

But it had only gone 6 miles after the TPWS light came on, and was still only a few PSI down when I got home.

I think the reluctance to repair at many places is because they don't know how the tyre has been treated since the puncture (and maybe their need to drive sales targets)!

[ric19]

Well mine is nigh on 2 months old and still appears ok, obviously it now going to fail having raised the ire of the Gods