tyre weld stuff

[jonathant]

Does anyone know if Tyre Weld (or Flat Mate) has a shelf life? It's occurred to me that my two cans are now a goodly six years old.

[grahamw48]

Use it at your next office party

[Tegriffic]

Or stick it in the boot and it should explode after 12 months... unless that was a special edition can I bought.

[Mad Mitch]

If in doubt, throw it out. Better spending a few quid on new cans than finding it DOES have a shelf life.

[zippee]

On a secondary note how good is it? I'm thinking about taking out the space saver in the Chim and replacing it with a couple of cans of this stuff. Don't think I'd feel too confident driving the Chim on a space saver anyway.

[macdeb]

First used it on a motorbike quite a few years ago. Had no problems with it then and no issues with using it again.

>> Edited by macdeb on Saturday 27th May 09:27

[steve11]

Used it on the T350 - Inflates the tyre and seals the hole - only problem is most places will not repair the tyre if you've used Tyre Weld.

[kevin63]

zippee said:

On a secondary note how good is it? I'm thinking about taking out the space saver in the Chim and replacing it with a couple of cans of this stuff. Don't think I'd feel too confident driving the Chim on a space saver anyway.

I used a space saver on my Chimp when i had it, NEVER again, those things are dangerous, both my cars now don't come with spare tyres so both have a couple of tyre weld cans in them.
I have used the stuff and it worked a treat, and it is better than jacking up and changing the tyre.

[FUBAR]

Didnt like the look of the can in the boot of the Cerb so I bought a twin pack off eBay for about £9 in readiness for Le Mans. Better to be safe than sorry and all that

[grahamw48]

The spacesaver is in the garage.

I have a can and an AA card.

[Daftlad]

steve11 said:

Used it on the T350 - Inflates the tyre and seals the hole - only problem is most places will not repair the tyre if you've used Tyre Weld.

Would you really want to be running a 170 mph car with a repaired tyre?

[IM]

I tore into the kerb outside the restaurant at the top of Devils Dyke at 1am tearing great holes out of my front tyre. The spare was in the shed back home and it was then that I realised that Tyre Weld don't cater for all eventualities!

I needed towing home! I spent the first part of the journey back trying to guess how stupid the breakdown guy thought I was on a scale of 1 to 10 before opening my mouth to say "So then...how was your day?"

He turned around and said "I doubt any of "my days" are ever as eventful as one of yours!

Spare is still in the shed and tyre weld in the boot but I duck everytime I pass a green flag pick-up truck.

[steve11]

Daftlad said:

steve11 said: Used it on the T350 - Inflates the tyre and seals the hole - only problem is most places will not repair the tyre if you've used Tyre Weld. Would you really want to be running a 170 mph car with a repaired tyre?

Good point.

[StuntJezza]

Anyone any thoughts on getting tyreweld injected into your tyres as a way to pre-empt a puncture? http://www.tyreseal.co.uk/Domesticvehicles.html

I'm not that confident (but never used) in the two cans of tyreweld i keep in the boot, but happy to hear experiences of anyone that has.

Thoughts?

[bomb]

good thread bump ! from 2006. Phew.

[seeby]

I used the 7 year old stuff in my Fiat van a few weeks ago. My electric pump would only pump to 22psi so I pumped up fully and have had no probs. Fingers crossed.

[KevinCamaroSS]

StuntJezza said:

Anyone any thoughts on getting tyreweld injected into your tyres as a way to pre-empt a puncture? http://www.tyreseal.co.uk/Domesticvehicles.html

I'm not that confident (but never used) in the two cans of tyreweld i keep in the boot, but happy to hear experiences of anyone that has.

Thoughts?

Why would you want to do that? As it goes off it seals the hole. Therefore it would do nothing for a new puncture. It also appears to make a tyre irrepairable.

[Milky400]

It seals the puncture but remains to seal future punctures too from what I understood of the video, it showed the lorry repeatedly driving over the nails. Seems a good idea to me.

[plug]

Think i better check mine, the cans were new when i brought the car....

in June 2004.

[glenrobbo]

Milky400 said:

...the video showed the lorry repeatedly driving over the nails. Seems a good idea to me.

Really?
I try to avoid driving over nails whenever possible. But I always have the spacesaver in the boot. A can of tyreweld is useless when one of your tyres suffers a burst sidewall. Just sayin'.