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Originally Posted by thetruth
Personal experience. I've driven for about 50 years and used to drive far more. Due to all the construction and modifications around the villages, I've had more flats in the past five years than in the previous 50. Two in golf cart. Two in car and like 3 on my bike.
The proper way to patch a tire is with a patch on the inside.
It is more expensive to do it that way because the tubeless tire needs to be taken off the rim. But if you think about it
when done form the inside the air pushes the patch on rather than trying to go around a plug.
MY OPINION-for my bike, I patch it myself but take the time to do it right. On the road it is far easier to carry a spare tube. For the golf cart-low speed we had the hole plugged. For the car, we had it patched from the inside by WILDWOOD TIRE. The price was reasonable, the service was polite and fast.
As to products such as SLIME. Before you put that in READ. The life of the product is two years. You end up with balls of stuff running around inside your tire.
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I use to mow 2 acres 20 plus years. the lawnmower rear tires were constantly getting small holes from the blackjack oak twigs. I put fix a flat (before green slim come out) in the rear tires, I would see the stuff oozing out then it would seal up.
after years of use I changed all the tires, the tires with the fix a flat in them the rims looked like new on the inside, the tires without fix a Flat were rusty, I he to sand blast them and re-paint. I put tubes in the tire with slime sealent, never had leaky tires after that.