On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 03:47:08 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:48:46 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote:



The last time I repaired a tire ( punch thru of a screw which I yanked
out) I bought a kit with rubber plugs and rubber cement. Greased the
hole with cement, put the plug on the inserter tool, shoved it thru
form the outside and withdrew the tool. That repair and tire lasted
another 20K miles.

Same here. I've done 4 or 5 that way. Kits cost $3-10.
They didn't come with a rasp when I was buying them.

I think a lot of these "proper ways" are fine but are often simply
driven by lawsuits. Some gas station repaired a flat tire, the guy
then has an accident and blames the repair and gets paid "experts" to
testify it was all because of that improperly done repair. No
evidence that a "proper repair" would have changed anything of course.
The same reason some tire places insist the new tires HAVE to go on
the rear of the car leaving you with half worn out front tires on your
FWD car at the start of snow season.