Black Jack tire repair

svtfocus2cobra said:

You don't need all that shit. You just need two small tools and the patches. Costs like $9 at Oreillys or Autozone.

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jeffh81 said:

Plugs are meant for a temporary fix and the best fix is the plug/patch combo that most shops do now. Walmart sells the kits for a couple dollars

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jeffh81 said:

Unfortunately yes.

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xsellr8 said:

I tried this out today, and it worked really well. Didn’t even have to let all the air out of the tire. Of course, I would not recommend this for a drag radial, slick, or high-performance situation



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xsellr8 said:

Here is the kit

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svtfocus2cobra said:

I was gonna to try and plug a tire on my FiST today but unfortunately it was a razor blade that cut an inch and half gash right into the sidewall. My brother was borrowing the car and he has the worst luck with cars or anything mechanical for that matter, like running over a dead dear in the road with his Mustang or launching our jet ski off the only large exposed rock on the lake we lived on. Everyone knew it was there, he knew it was there... still hit it and cracked the hull as he launched it like he was Evel Knievel or something. Anyways he managed to get a very small and still flat piece of a blade stuck in the tire and it destroyed it. Even if it wasn't in the sidewall it wouldn't have likely been pach-worthy.

I called our tire company for a quote on a single Bridgestone Potenza RE050A in 205/40R17 expecting it to be $80 or $90, but no, my cost is still $192 mounted and balanced! I already told him I would handle it because I know it was an accident and he has a family to feed, but still. Thanks bro.

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jeffh81 said:

https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=tire plug kit&cat_id=91083&typeahead=tire plug

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svtfocus2cobra said:

That kit at the top of the page is all we use at our shop. I did my first one yesterday and it took me maybe 3 minutes from start to finish. You can run on them for a while but you have to keep an eye on the tire the entire time it is in there.

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jeffh81 said:

I plugged plenty back in the day. One tire had 4 plugs in it at one time.

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svtfocus2cobra said:

Lol now that is just being either lazy or flat broke.

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jeffh81 said:

I was broke as **** and the tire was new

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svtfocus2cobra said:

Oh my bad! I thought you were saying you were plugging them at a shop for other people like as a job lol. Didnt mean to call you broke!

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