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Nail in Rear right tire, Two Shops said i need a new tire!?

Nail in Rear right tire, Two Shops said i need a new tire!?

Postby Dawgz » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:59 pm

These tires are fairly new, they were baught in October of last year, so lately the air in my rear passenger tire has been escaping so i went and looked at it and i found a nail, i drove over to pepboys and they said they will not plug it because the nail is in the "side wall"?, so i was like okay, i went to another shop RN&S Strauss or watever, and they said the same thing. So i ordered a new tire from TireTrack.com

My question is, is this tire that has the nail in it trash now? what should i do to it or with it? ill take pics so u guys get a better understanding of this.
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Postby Dawgz » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:07 pm

Its raining so i just took a quick snap shot, it doesnt have the nail in the pic but i put a Red Circle of where the nail would be, if i rolled the car back a bit.

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Postby Steve526 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:18 pm

I'd say get rid of it, punctures (even small ones) to the sidewall are bad because there is ALOT less rubber there than say in the tread of the tire. Hence you can blow a tire out fairly easily if there are imperfections in the sidewall. One of my tires has a small bump in the sidewall which I'm kinda worried about but so far it's been alright.

EDIT: Wait, from that picture, that isn't the sidewall... wtf? I think they tried to play you.
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Postby Jon11582 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:33 pm

Nail in the side wall -> Cant plug and need to replace tire = True
Red Circled part = Sidewall = False

This isnt something they would normally play you for, since they probably make just as much money plugging it up for 7 bucks as they do selling you another cheap tire. If they said its in the sidewall, it probably is. Maybe your circles off?
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Postby Turbosolara » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:42 pm

it is too close to the sidewall, no shop will take the risk to repair it. you should buy tire from american tires or discount tires and installed there, than you will have opportunites to buy road hazard warranty for the tires. i already claimed 3 tires, 2 got nails by the sidewall and 1 had broken sidewall wires
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Postby Sap Z » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:55 pm

wow

thats amazing - cuz i had the same problem not more than 3 weeks back. i took it to 2 shops and they said they wont fix it. my nail was in the exact same position as urs. but it wasnt a major punture..i think it barely peirced through.

discount tire fixed it for free since i got my tires from there. i even think i've got the same tires as u - falkens?

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Postby Dawgz » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:28 pm

^ i have yokhoma Avid H4s

I ordered a new tire from TireRack.com, the tire should be here by tomorrow, i just hope this new tire wouldnt be too much of a diffrence in tread (full tread as opposed to 3 tires on there for 11 months.
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Postby Dawgz » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:36 pm

Here are the pics,

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Postby HID04V6 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:02 pm

Its too close to the sidewall to fix the tire. That part of the tire flexes too much so a patch or plug wont stick to it, and if it does, its only a matter of time before it comes off or out. I had a nail in my tire in almost the same spot- they fixed it because I told them to, and 2 days later, the patch and plug came off, so I had to buy a new tire anyways.
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Postby TadS » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:11 pm

Yep... to close to the sidewall, if you came to my shop I would decline to fix it, and I actually get a higher commission rate to repair the tire vs. mounting and balancing a new one. Put the new tire on the rear, that should reduce any tire pull you might get from it.
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Postby bronzemaxell » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:50 pm

i repaired a nail punctured tire even outter than the one i seen on your picture, and it is perfectly fine for me, if it is on side wall, then no, but yours is not on sidewall yet. and if you ever get your new tire, feel around that area and you will notice it is thciker than any other area of the tire.
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Postby TMMK Toy » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:07 pm

I've repaired tires with punctures in a similiar area. It may be doable. Course it would prob. give you better piece of mind just replacing the tire. Even though if you're that meticulous, may as well do two tires, eh? At least you don't have a railroad spike in your tire. That was one thing I couldn't fix. lol
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Postby JMSinMaryland » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:06 pm

The places you went to followed procedure. There are places that will plug your tires which is really a temporary fix. Any decent repair, requiring unmounting the tire would not repair it a hole there. It sucks but it's for your safety. Jon.
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Postby Turbosolara » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:59 pm

^^^ that is correct, they will not take the libility.

the reason that they cannot fix a hole that is near the sidewall because it has less surface area allow them to put on the patch tightly
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Postby StockSolara » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:14 pm

The the nail is too close to the sidewall even though if they fixed it. . . It will compromise the integrity of the sidewall in which no respectable shop will ever take on something like that for a properly repaired tire. . . In order to make a proper tire repair you will need to beable to hit steel belt on all sides
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