Return-Path: Received: from K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU; 13 Sep 88 20:25:46 EDT To: bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Punctured tires can be saved Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 20:25:43 EDT Message-ID: <1794.590199943@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Harry.Bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU 13-Sep-88 17:50 James.Anderson Punctured tires can be saved. With the recent postings by Cam Miller about getting a screw in her tire and spending almost $200 to get a new one, I thought I'd post a small piece of advice that could save several people some cash. Tire punctures, short of a total blow out, come in two categories. One is a puncture on the actual tread area. These punctures can be plugged for 5 or 6 dollars at a local gas station. The second type are those that are on the edge of the tread area or the actual sidewall of the tire. This type of puncture is a little harder to repair and a lot of shops will just say that you have to replace the tire. This is a totally untrue statement and I believe it to be a form of fraud. Be that as it may, such punctures are in fact repairable at any decent retreading or vulcanizing shop by the addition of a vulcanized patch on the inside of the tire. This is not a retread and is every bit as strong as the original tire. It costs about 5 to 10 dollars after you've actually removed the tire and taken it to them. If a tire has good tread on it still and hasn't had a major blow out, there is no reason to have to get a totally new tire. While I'm at it, let me recomend Tom's Tire on Butler street for general auto and tire work. He has reasonable prices and I guarantee that if Tom says it needs fixed, it needs fixed. I've lived here all my life and his is the only shop I'll take my cars to if I don't feel like doing the work myself. Jim