puncture repair advice please

[chester drawers]

Left the house to discover two screws in one of the tyres this morning. Nowhere near the side wall, but only around 10mm from each other. Revulcanising aside I presume a repair’s out of the question then?

[Espacetic]

I should imagine they can be plugged.

[garethj]

Do them up 1/4 turn and drive carefully to your local trusted tyre place, see what they say.You can tell them it can be repaired until you're blue in the face, but if they're not prepared to do it, you're stuffed. Not all tyre places have the same "sell him a new one" policy though....

[Albert Ross]

Technically, you aren't permitted to carry out more than one repair in each "quarter" of the tyre. I do bend the rules a little if they are close to 75/90 degrees, but that close would get a refusal from me, as the plies, and therefore the strength of the tyre has been compromised. Sorry and all that. You might find someone willing to do it, but don't expect a guarantee. I wouldn't like to see it blow out on you after it's got warm.

[Cavcraft]

If you're unsure, or your local tyre house won't repair, them drop me a pm. I used to work for a place that vulanises tyres and the repairs were actually the strongest bit of the tyre when done.

[chester drawers]

Thank you gentlemen, advice & offers appreciated!

[Lankytim]

I used to have a mega old puncture repair kit. All you had to do was pull the screw/nail out, use a thin rounded file to roughen up the hole and stick a rounded strip of glue- covered rubber through the hole with a big knitting needle thing. Leave it to set for a bit then trim the excess off. Always worked a treat!Ive done the same without the kit, its dead easy.

[Cavcraft]

D&M Tyres, Hooton Works, Hooton, Cheshire do vulcanising. Failing that D&D in Nantwich somewhere probably still do too.Mushroom patches were made illegal a few years back now but then became permitted again for some reason. They make sense because they actually plug the entire hole in the tyre as well as the inner bits. This, I would imagine, stops water getting in and rusting the braiding out.