flat!

[Rocky Mullin]

	wow, cool, thanks for the advice!  i'd like to try the fixing
route.  i'll stop by various places and see if someone will do it.  any
pointers from listers in the SF area to shops that will would be appreciated.

	i would do just another tire under warranty but because of the
diffs i need to do all four corners, yikes!

	is the patching difficult?  maybe i could do it myself.  plugging
is actually pretty easy, i bet patching is too.

	thanks again!


At 4:27 PM -0500 1/20/04, Steve Sears wrote:
>Rocky,
>I've had similar experience with punctures in both my summer (Dunlop D60A2)
>and winter tires (Blizzak WS15).  Three punctures - all just outside the
>tread blocks (I work in construction - many trips through construction sites
>will find many sheetrock screws and roofing nails) were deemed "unfixable"
>by a number of places who will remain nameless, but their initials are
>Canadian Tire and Beverly Tire.  Bob, the guy at Frank's Tire here in
>Hamilton, informed me that small punctures in tires can be fixed right from
>one bead to the other - not just in the tread blocks alone.  All three
>punctures have been repaired (the first about 3 years ago) and the tires
>hold air just fine - as a matter of fact, I took the rest of my snows to
>Franks last winter after the unrepaired ones developed bead leaks over the
>summer.  You can guess where I send all my family and friends to get tire
>work done.
>If they can get you a new tire under warranty, then go that route.  If they
>can't, find a shop that will attempt to patch (not plug) the hole before you
>get new shoes on all 4 corners.
>[OK, now I'm ready to have my wrist slapped for advocating fixing the
>tires....]


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