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Member Since: 28 Feb 2009
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Nail in Tyre

Well more of a small tack actually

Annoyingly its approx 10-12mm from the sidewall

Before I go through the lottery of visiting tyre guys is this liekly to be repairable or will I get the "unfixable" story?

Cheers

FWIW The tyre holds its pressure fine - I have no idea how long its been

Post #271738 Tue Jul 20 2010 12:54pm
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NickM



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I have the same issue, in fact one nail in each side - one is near the wall, and requires a new tyre and is losing pressure...the other is in the middle and is fixable. The only thing is - Toyo Proxes 285 32 22 are out of stock and not due in until end of August Big Cry

Post #271740 Tue Jul 20 2010 1:21pm
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Tim in Scotland



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If it's not in the sidewall then the tyre shop may be able to vulcanise a plug in the nail hole and put an inner-tube in the tyre as a temporary fix. My defender has been driving round on that for the last 3 years after I got a piece of flint in the tread between the blocks, then again the Defender doesn't drive quite a fast as the RRS so a vulcanised plug and inner tube more acceptable!! I've just drive from Scotland to the New Forest on my snow and ice tyres because of knackering one tyre and cutting a slice of sidewall out of the nearside rear at the weekend on a large pothole. Noticed no difference to the handling at all in the warm weather these tyres are not designed for and in the torrents of rain that fell on my way south from Stirling to the south Lakes last night they were probably a better tyre to be on because of their tread pattern than the 20's. I did notice that the spray plume behind the car was considerably denser that it would normally have been - I have never seen so much rain lying on the road surface as there was coming over Shap yesterday afternoon. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Post #271752 Tue Jul 20 2010 5:20pm
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dric0327



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hi
had the same thing last month. there is a plug they put in from the inside with a circular piece about the size of a 50pence piece. If the patch (50p piece size) cannot fit on the flat section of the tyre and goes up the tyre wall then it cannot be repaired.

i had this verified by an independent guy as well. It's so annoying but mine was right on the limit and the patch was just going up the side wall so it was a new tyre. The Hankooks are only £145 fitted though if you ring around the independents.

Good luck and hope it's fixable but get them to put the repair plug and patch on your tyre where the nail is so you can see if it goes up the tyre wall.

cheers
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After a service at the stealer that sounds like a fish once, I was told had a slow puncture in one, and a nail in another £400 for 2 new tyres. Took it to kwick Fit (other brands available) and it cost me £6.50 to repair, got 1,000's of miles more out of them Confused purple people eater

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Streaky



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Just got my third puncture in two weeks this morning! All in the same wheel too! I've been driving my BFG AT shod Discovery around for the past 10 years which probably gives me a false sense of confidence in the more rugged tread..... these RRS tires don't have much rubber on them to safeguard against silly little nails & half inch tacks.

Never even contemplate using the sticky string puncture repairs on these cars. Only fit the vulcanised internal patch or 'mushrooms' as they are also known.
I wouldn't even drive a car with a sidewall repaired tire....tubed or not. Once the sidewall is compremised it's shot.....sling it away and buy another one.

Regards.

S.

Post #272132 Sun Jul 25 2010 10:12am
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