Originally Posted by gfh77665
Originally Posted by andyd
4 pages of safety to an extreme.You guys are over reacting. I'm gonna be the contrarian. If the tire holds pressure and the car has TPSM . Put tire on RR mostly to appease the worry warts. A freaken 1 1/4" roofin nail barely penetrates the air seal on an other wise good tire. TPMS will alert you when it notices a 10% loss. In days of yore, I had plenty of tires with slow leaks. This will not fail in dramatic fashion. It is mostly an aggravation. Especially in round town use
I agree 100%. "Safety to the extreme" and overreacting is common in all the tire puncture discussions.
It really is ludicrous....but dang if it isn't entertaining. I have patched worse holes in worse places on worse tires, and driven them till the air is showing. Was it smart? No...but it worked. Spending a couple hundred bucks on a tire that will probably dry rot before it wears out just because someone said it won't work is ridiculous.
Thank God, in this day and age, there are still tire shops who will make repairs like this. There is the right way, the wrong way, and the good enough way...and sometimes, good enough is just that.