Pluged tire repair

[Infernal]

Well, I blew a tire on Friday (almost new Eagle GT II w/ less than 10k on it), and I took it to Pep Boys for a repair.

I've never had a tire repair done before, so I'm a little nervous about it.

My question is, should I be worried about the safety of the tire and treat this like a temporary fix?

[daWhoady]

Where is the Blow-out?

Are they going to plug it or patch it?

[Infernal]

It was plugged. The hole was near the edge of the tire, about 2/3ds of an inch from the corner where the tread meets the sidewall. :(

[MustangEater8251]

It blew out?

funy every blow out I had, tire ended up destroyed.

I have gotten nails in my tires plenty of times and I have had no problmes with plugs.

I would be kinda iffy about a patch on a tire that blew out. Did you hit something or did it jstu blow out?

[12secondv6]

I've had nails in the tread portion on my old merc topaz and I've put plugs in before.
If it is in the sidewall good god no it is not safe.
As for racing or high speeds I'd be careful

[hou-tex-six]

Did they just plug it or was it vulcanized (sp?) where they actually melt a peice of rubber in there? I have one of my tires with that and have had no problems..

Cp

[BillyCobin]

I used to sell tires, and the rule was that no matter what the speed rating of the tire, if it was patched you weren't supposed to take it over 89 mph. So you are restricted there.

As far as quality wise, it is going to depend on the type of plug/patch they used. Did they have to take the tire off the wheel to do the repair? If they did, then I wouldn't worry about it. If they repaired the flat with the tire still mounted, I would make sure to keep the spare in the trunk.

[97chevycamaro]

I work at Pep Boys and we are not allowed to use plugs what so ever, Maybe there is different.

[AZ3.8Camaro]

I do tire repairs for a living, so heres the deal. Make sure its a rubber plug, not a peice of rope. We use a rubber plug attached to a patch. It all goes in together with rubber cement and then covered with some black sealer. Never fails. I use them on my car and I go over 100mph all the time. You can have up to 2 plugs before the speed rating of your tire is void. I would say anything in the shoulder or below I wouldn't fix. Just make sure its not a rope plug with some crappy glue on it. You'll be fine.

[nikon]

hmm correct me if im wron gbut I thought putting a plug into a steel belted radial would cause the belts to eventually seperate...causing another blowout or tread seperating or whatnot...the dealer tried to put a plug in one of my tires the first day I got it..happened at dealership or something...I made em take it out and patch it....those tires have been long gone :cool:

[Infernal]

Screw it. I don't feel safe driving the car with it, so I guess I'll get a new tire. Of course, now I'll have one tire with more tread than the others. Maybe I'll get 2 new tires for the rear and save the other good one as a spare -- mount it on a cheap *** steel wheel or something.

Thanks for the answers. I can't tell what kind of plug it is, but it is covered in black rubbery crap.