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Generation 6 - S550 Discussion Area => Wheels & Tyres => Topic started by: Salthorse on June 04, 2016, 10:38:06 am

Title: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Salthorse on June 04, 2016, 10:38:06 am
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.
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: JasonK on June 06, 2016, 07:52:48 am
Quote from: Salthorse on June 04, 2016, 10:38:06 am
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!
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Pinto Pete on June 06, 2016, 08:30:40 pm
A nail hole and it couldn't be repaired..?
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: GLENN 70 on June 06, 2016, 09:08:18 pm
Not in the side wall . How did you get a nail in the side wall ?
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Pinto Pete on June 06, 2016, 09:24:27 pm
used to be legal did sidewalls all the time..
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: GLENN 70 on June 06, 2016, 09:29:56 pm
I don't know if it legal or not but its not a good place to have a repair .
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Salthorse on June 06, 2016, 10:04:11 pm
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.
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Boet on June 07, 2016, 05:58:03 pm
 :cry:
Bugger!!!!
Pity that spare you sold me didnt fit. As you said. Hope I never need it.
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Pinto Pete on June 07, 2016, 07:59:21 pm
Quote from: GLENN 70 on June 06, 2016, 09:29:56 pm
I don't know if it legal or not but its not a good place to have a repair .

Ok, why..?
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: JasonK on June 08, 2016, 09:27:57 am
Quote from: Pinto Pete on June 07, 2016, 07:59:21 pm
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?
Title: Re: Punctured rear tyre
Post by: Boet on June 08, 2016, 05:52:49 pm
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.