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Old 12-16-2020, 02:02 AM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
A friend of mine used to own a small tyre shop, and I remember seeing him fixing used tyres with plugs, but he also applied some sort of glue to them in order to make the fix look more permanent.
All the cheap plug kits I've purchased come with cement that you coat the plugs with before inserting.

My double plug repair held the 1 day it needed to before I got new tires. I'd have driven it the full lifetime of the tire if I hadn't already scheduled to replace them. Perhaps it would fail, but it wouldn't be a big deal. I suspect it would have held up though.

I'd probably detect a 10 PSI drop in pressure just in normal driving.
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