Nail in tire cases failed inspection?

[Silverado12]

Virginia Code It's in Section 9.

 

[Silverado12]

To get the nail removed from the tire, stick a small flat blade next to the nail/screw, pry it out as much as you can and grab it with a pair of dykes.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

How true it is my friend. I feel bad for the people who can't afford an outdated used tire, and have to settle for a sidewall patch. I read some of those used tire date stamps. Some were 10 yrs old !!!!!

Yes indeed. I been dirt poor early in life as I hopped from one job to another, one industry to another all in attempts to get better pay and security. Even spent time crawling and trekking thru deep woods and swamps running pipelines at one point. I then got blessed and did something hardly no one can do these days. I hooked on with a company and stayed there for 30 years. I recall being poor and plugged tires and made all sorts of simple repairs to things because I could only afford that. Now that I can, I spend lot of my money to maintain (go overboard too at times) our vehicles for safety's sake. Being poor is not all the reasons some plug tires. Some feel it is sufficient and that is their privilege. As said, I did it many times and for many miles at times.

 

[jadmt]

costco recently plugged this...I was hoping they would say it was too close to the sidewall and replace the tire but they said no issues plugging it...

 

[AutoMechanic]

I am a Virginia State Inspector and can confirm yes this does fail state inspection and no we legally cannot patch that tire being that close to the sidewall. If it was my car I’d pull that nail out and stuff a plug in there.

 

[97prizm]

Just had my car inspection done and it failed because i have a nail in my tire that they say is to close to the sidewall to fix and that i need to buy another tire.

The tire has 10k miles on it. I have tired to pull out the nail myself with no luck as it is very far into the tread.

I wanted to just plug it.

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Honestly I'd fill the spot with black rtv and see if a new shop notices.

 

[50yr Street Mech]

Again, remind me never to move to Virginia. That tire would have passed with the nail/ broken screw in New York no problem. If it was flat, that's a different story. But they do check the tread depth.,which is more important than a stupid nail/ screw inside a tread. That's called a leak. No reason to fail a car over that. Overkill on Virginia's DOT is my opinion. If it was a FRONT tire on an 18 wheeler, then I would call it a failure.

 

[CKN]

costco recently plugged this...I was hoping they would say it was too close to the sidewall and replace the tire but they said no issues plugging it...View attachment 299329

1/8"more towards the edge and they would not have plugged it.