Tyre weld is it any good ?

[Vince70]

I'm working away from home for a couple of weeks so I dont really have time to look after the old Audi at the moment so before I went away I had a new tyre fitted and another one with a slow puncture fixed as I was told by the tyre fitter not to bother with a new tyre as the punctured tyre is nearly new.

 

But I came out this morning and found its flat again (I did wonder why it was handling a bit funny on roundabouts). Its generally ok for about 4 days and I was told it didn't have a puncture but the tyre wasn't beaded properly to the alloy.

 

Well the fitter did make quite a mess of my alloy as he's scratched off chunks of paint off what was an immaculate wheel and I still have a flat tyre so I was thinking about using some tyre weld and just wondered if anyone has used the stuff before.

 

At the moment Halfords are doing a two for one offer on it.

[skattrd]

We had this question a while ago, try doing a search or look in the stupid question thread

[Split_Pin]

Permanently repairs slow punctures in my experience, usually caused by old wheels. Utterly hopeless at fixing actual punctures.

 

Your tyre fitter is a total wazoc too for ploughing up your wheel. No excuse for that in this day and age.

[Partridge]

I used some to get the Polo to the tyre place when it got a puncture. It got me there OK.

[RayMK]

It works ok on slow punctures in the tread, but it struggles to get anywhere near the bead 'cos of the spinning forces.  Most tyre fitters have black gunge of some sort to slap on corroded alloys where the tyre seals.  That works.  It does require the tyre to be removed before application. 

[wuvvum]

I used some last night in an attempt to cure a reasonably rapid puncture in the osr tyre of the MG (could hear air hissing out, tyre went from 30psi to flat in about 2 hours).  It's slowed it down, but it hasn't stopped it - this evening the tyre was back down to 10psi.  It allowed me to get to Kings Lynn and back for the auction though, which I couldn't have done otherwise.