On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:14:56 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:14:39 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

On 27/01/2021 20:19, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:29:44 +0000, R D S wrote:

I've a puncture on a front tyre, it's not in the legal repair area so
will need changing.

I can't decide whether to do both. that's the advice isn't it (from
tyre sellers )

What is a shame here is how many 'perfectly good' tyres end up getting
dumped when they needn't be.

Part worn tyres are worth money, they're rarely 'dumped'.

Not sure who'd buy them.

Quite, and the term 'dumped' wasn't literal (although I expected the
left brainer troll / stalker to try to take it so) as I'm aware that
tyres can be recycled into all sorts of other stuff (like play area
surfaces) but I was describing the action *we* do when we no longer
use what is essentially a perfectly good tyre ... if only people
understood what the options were for a perfectly functional repair,
saving a useable tyre from having to be converted into rubber and
steel / nylon fragments (for the left brainer stalker / troll). ;-(

One of the first post puncture instances I used Puntureseal for was
the Sierra estate. Mrs came to pick me up from the station, the kid
was in the front so I jumped in the back and quickly noticed the sound
of the antistatic strap rubbing on the road all the time, not just as
you stopped. I got the Mrs to pull over and noticed a rear tyre partly
deflated. I pumped it up, we were able to drive home on it (only
local) and I jacked it up, removed the valve core, applied the right
quantity of Puncturseal, span the tyre round a few times, cleaned the
valve out, replaced the core then pumped it up again. I took it for a
run around the block and that tyre was still on there and still
holding air, many years later when I finally scrapped the car. It's
been the same for many people and many tyres so far, inc on
motorbikes.

I wouldn't

And nor would I, other than when they have been bought new by us and
come off our own cars. ;-)

(When the Astra was written off by an artic when it was parked
overnight (outside the house, driver drove off ...), I spoke to the
disposal people who were going to collect it re the new battery and
new front tyres I'd just fitted. They said as long as their man could
start it and drive it on his transporter, he didn't care what was on
there. So I swapped stuff about and later daughter was able to use
them on her Corsa as they were the exact same size, make and model).
;-)

I guess if you don't understand how something works you can be
suckered into getting something that never will (snake oil) or be
inclined to ignore something as being 'too good to be true' when it
actually isn't.

I have way too many personal stories of where Puntureseal has done
*exactly* what I (and others) have hoped of / for it and more to
realise it's 'a good thing'.

I gave a mate half a bottle to do one of his bike tyres and it worked,
so he bought some more for himself and replaced mine with a new full
bottle. Except it wasn't the same stuff, it was made to look the same
but wasn't the same. I didn't realise that at the time.

Daughters b/f got a puncture in his rear motorcycle tyre and I used
this 'other' stuff to fix it for him. He wouldn't have been able to
ride it to a bike shop, the bike didn't have a main stand so he
couldn't take the wheel off and in himself and hence the 'treatment'.
Except it simply didn't work (fully), even after I had used more than
recommended. It worked just about well enough for him to ride it to
the bike shop and get a new tyre fitted (the old one was pretty low
anyway).

Cheers, T i m

p.s. I had a bit of a run in with a mate recently, mostly down to his
(false / unreasonable?) expectations.

He had a puncture in the spare tyre of his wife's car so I offered to
treat it with Punctureseal for him, as a favour and as a demonstration
to him how good the stuff was. Expensive and quite new (premium) tyre,
small nail hole (nail still in it) but too near the edge of the tread
for a 'conventional' repair. He brought the car round, we applied the
Punctureseal to the spare and I suggested he actually fit the spare
and give it a run round, 1) to get it to fully disperse around the
inside of the tyre and 2) to better fix the leak and cure properly. He
did and then drove the 20 miles home and after a few weeks of
checking, hadn't lost a single PSI of pressure.

Now the stuff isn't 'cheap' but I gave it to him for the reasons
above. Then he gets a puncture in one of his own car tyres and asks
when he can come down for me to treat that 'one'?

I asked, 'given you saw how well it worked and one new tyre would be
more than the cost to treat all 4 with Punctureseal, why hadn't he
already done so' (and no, I need what I have left for us). ;-(

I guess you just can't help some people ... ;-(