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Old 2005-07-12, 12:13 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by sperry
Usually if it's just a nail or something, they can just do a plug w/o even taking the tire off the wheel.
Plugs can be bad, because they often use a pointy rasp/file thing to "clear out" the hole for the plug. This often greatly increases the amount of damage to the steel and nylon belts/plys in the carcas of the tire.

On a 50K street tire where they use salt on the roads, I might get a plug to keep the salt water away from the steel, but on a 10K high performance tire in our climate, I'd just have it patched on the inside. If you can get them to put some of the black rubber cement type compound they use for the patch into the hole from the outside, all the better.
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