🚀 go-pugleaf

"- HAL9000" <gumpy@mail.org> wrote in message 
news:t4o672p14002tom2a6n8fro0j2qk14kkco@4ax.com...
> Yea, I think you're 100% right - it is bull shit.
>
> I couldn't care, in a safety sense, whether a patch will hold for 40k
> miles or not.  I've had a sidewall blow out before and it took about
> 3-4 seconds to have zero pressure.  In that case the cause was pure
> and simple a road hazard.  A patch (and this one is small) coming off
> couldn't decompress in less than a minute and would probably take two
> or more.
>
> Last I heard there are still road hazards out there that can give you
> a sidewall blow out.  So replacing the tire doesn't eliminate the ever
> existing danger(s).
>
> Tomorrow I could run over a nail with a brand new tire, the nail not
> stay in, and it could decompress in just a few minutes.  Or, tomorrow
> I could run over some accident debris with a brand new tire and still
> have a side wall blow out.
>
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 20:54:16 -0500, Jon A <jona@ev1.net> wrote:
>
>>All according to who you take it to for repair...
>
>
Just the other day, I noticed that my LR tire was low.  It didn't take 
Sherlock to see the sheet metal screw about 1" up the sidewall.  I didn't 
want to risk driving it all the way home (I live in the country) so I went 
about 5 miles to the (pop. 2500) nearest Podunk town.  The tire repair guy 
told me that they couldn't PATCH up that high, but since it was a simple 
puncture, a PLUG should be OK.  It was, and Is.  I will not replace it until 
it fails catastrophically.
geotek
BTW, I don't routinely drive my POS over 85.