Mustang Owners Club Australia Forum
Generation 6 - S550 Discussion Area => Wheels & Tyres => Topic started by: Salthorse on June 04, 2016, 10:38:06 am
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Three months old, nail in the side wall of the rear tyre, $450 later. :thud:
At least it was a very slow leak so no need to use the tyre filler gunk and I think the price of the tyre was pretty good all things considered as I have seen them advertised for over $600 a pop.
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Three months old, nail in the side wall of the rear tyre, $450 later. :thud:
At least it was a very slow leak so no need to use the tyre filler gunk and I think the price of the tyre was pretty good all things considered as I have seen them advertised for over $600 a pop.
Is that for the P Zero? Wow, they aren't cheap!
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A nail hole and it couldn't be repaired..?
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Not in the side wall . How did you get a nail in the side wall ?
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used to be legal did sidewalls all the time..
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I don't know if it legal or not but its not a good place to have a repair .
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Yes, it's the Pzero. Not sure how the nail found the side wall but I saw it firmly stuck in there angled up towards the centre of the rim. And it was a bloody long nail.
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:cry:
Bugger!!!!
Pity that spare you sold me didnt fit. As you said. Hope I never need it.
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I don't know if it legal or not but its not a good place to have a repair .
Ok, why..?
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Ok, why..?
This is a completely uneducated guess, but I reckon that because the tyre walls are thinner then the tread, and the walls are subject to forces operating at different angles to the repair, therefore making it less stable or less strong?
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Yes, the sidewall is thinner. Also does not have the reinforcing that the tread part has. Sidewalls are designed to flex under load and during cornering. The distortion could cause any patch/plug to come loose. I have seen a tubeless tyre with sidewall damage where the owner decided to install a tube and the hole split under pressure and the tube ballooned out through the tear. Ever watch a drag race car's rear tyre in a hard start. A road tyre distorts but not nearly as much.