My wife picked up a nail coming home from the dealer the same day we
picked up the brand new 2003 Durango.
After I did a bunch of swearing I put a plug in it and we have 97,000
miles on the original Goodyear Wrangler RT/S tires and should get about
105 to 110,000 out of them (good thing I rotate them regularly). She
drives 130 miles round trip to work each day when she drives the carpool.
So the answer is YES you can get over 50,000 miles out of a plugged
tire. Why wouldn't you?.
As long as it is in the tread and not the sidewall, go for it.
I would suggest that if you plug it yourself that you not only use the
plug, but you get a tube of rubber cement and coat the plug before
inserting it. I've always done it that way and have never had a problem.
I wish I had pictures of a old BFG tire that a friend cut on a trail and
didn't have a spare. It had a 2" sidewall gash and we had to do something.
It was a toyota pickup, no other trucks had the 6 on 5.5 bolt pattern.
He was an upholsterer by trade and he had needles and cord with him. He
'stiched' the gash up, I filled it with tire plugs and rubber cement waited
about 2 hours for the whole mess to cure better, added air and made the 150+
miles back home. He lost about 8 lbs of pressure during the ride so it
wasn't perfect, but it was driveable.
Plug away!!
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Rick Barnes wrote:
>
> Plug it yourself, you can do as good a job as a tire place. They last and
> last and even if they don't, plug it again.
>
> Rascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Don Rey
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:58 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net; Multiple recipients of MoPar
> Subject: DML: Plugging tires
>
>
> I picked up a nail this morning in my BRAND NEW @#$%*&$ tires. So I'm
> a little frustrated. I don't even have 300 miles on these. Damn dirty
> construction site.
>
> Anyway, now that my frustration has been expressed... since they're
> such new tires and I want them to last many thousands of miles...
> should I plug the hole myself or have a tire shop do it? Will a tire
> shop do anything I can't do? I've plugged several holes before (always
> in well-used tires) and have never had a plug fail. I got 10,000 miles
> out of my last plug before the tire was bald and needed replacement.
> Never even had a leaky plug.
>
> I guess I really want to plug it myself (especially considering the
> truck is in the parking lot here at work and I JUST took the spare out
> of the bed so it wouldn't smash a gift I brought in yesterday for a
> new dad co-worker of mine).
>
> So have you ever had a DIY-plugged tire fail? Horror stories? Had a
> plug last 50,000 miles?
>
> Thanks
> Don in CT
> 89 Dakota Convertible 318 NV3500 4x4
> 74 Dart Sport 340
> pbase.com/radon220/mopars
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