[DeTomaso] Are time plugs temporary or permanent fixes?

[Julian Kift]

IMO take it and get it repaired, a tire shop fix is permanent, far more so than the roadside "get you out of a bind" tire plugs. The professional ones have a patch on the end of the plug that the shop vulcanizes onto the inner surface of the tire.
 
Julian
 

> From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:28:44 +0200
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Are time plugs temporary or permanent fixes?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> Went to the garage to pull the Pantera out to do some work on it and
> discovered that I have a flat front tire. 
> 
> 
> 
> I can see where I apparently ran over the pointy end of a nail or something,
> as I can see a rather clean hole. 
> 
> 
> 
> Supposing that that hole is the sole cause of the lack of air in said tire,
> if I bring the tire to a tire shop, how permanent is the fix?
> 
> 
> 
> On the one hand, the tire in question is a 285/40/15, something that doesn't
> grow on trees. On the other hand, I tend to take said tire thousands of
> kilometers from home, where Pirelli trees and Yokohama trees are even
> scarcer. 
> 
> 
> 
> I do have a set of spare 285/40/15's, but these are in really good shape, if
> you don't count the holes, and would probably last 3-4 more years before
> needing changing. 
> 
> 
> 
> Whaddayallthink?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Charles McCall
> 
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> 
> "Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe"
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