"Bewildered" wrote in message
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I was reading a Popular Mechanics in a waiting room, and they had an
article on how to fix a flat.

They said that tire repairs involved putting a patch on the inside of the
tire. That is how mine were fixed in the past, but the last few have had
plugs put in. The plugs seemed to work fine. What is the proper method.

They also recommended a can of air and material to plug the hole for
temporary repairs, and then getting a real patch. I was told that those
cans ruin the inside surface so a patch can't be used. What is the story
there?


You suppose to use both patch and plug but I've been using just plugs for
about 20 years on seven different cars without a single problem. YMMV