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    Dawico

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    HKShooter65 said:
    Something cheap and easy I've done for years even in my vehicles with a real spare:
    Buy a small but quality cigarette-lighter tire pump.
    Buy a pack of the old low-tech tire plugs.
    Buy a tube of old fashioned rubber cement. It eases the force needed to insert the plug.
    Buy (easy to forget) some needle-nose pliers for extrication of the offensive nail or whatever.

    My Yamaha 4-wheeler, my Deere lawn tractor and my old CJ Jeep all have plugged tires.

    I once had an old sport car that was a nail-magnet for some reason. When I sold it I think 3 of the 4 tires had plugs that had lasted for thousands of miles.
    "Experts" will tell you don't use the cheap lazy-man plugs but my experience has shown, quite anecdotally, otherwise.

    Heck, I'll take "lucky" over "good" any day of the year!!!
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    I plug my tires whenever needed, even my 80 psi truck tires. Works well.

    I always keep a 12v air pump handy too.

    Used rubber cement one time and that plug didn't hold. My uncle swears by it but not me.

    I can usually plug them without taking them off.
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    HKShooter65 said:
    Something cheap and easy I've done for years even in my vehicles with a real spare:
    Buy a small but quality cigarette-lighter tire pump.
    Buy a pack of the old low-tech tire plugs.
    Buy a tube of old fashioned rubber cement. It eases the force needed to insert the plug.
    Buy (easy to forget) some needle-nose pliers for extrication of the offensive nail
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    All of this right here. No runflats for me.
     
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    Dawico said:
    So your wife will change her own tire but you won't change yours?
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    She'll change mine too, if I ask nicely.

    HKShooter65 said:
    "Experts" will tell you don't use the cheap lazy-man plugs but my experience has shown, quite anecdotally, otherwise.
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    Plugs aren't recommended in performance applications because there's often enough damage where the increased heat and stress of hard driving will cause the tire to come apart at the puncture point. If driven casually, they're problem at all.
     
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    Hate run flats. Finding a tire I like for handling, ride and hydro-planing is hard enough then throw in the compounds used in run flats tend to remove some of these factors. I carry an extended lug wrench and a 12 volt compressor. I probably haven't used a spare more than 6 times in 40 years of driving but I also buy cars that have spares too.
     
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    I'm not a fan of run flats. They are heavy and very expensive. The Potenzas actually feel great handling wise, but hell no to their $400 each price...

    For road trips it depends on the nature of the trip. If I'm going west of the Mississippi, I'll likely see some offroad action and take a vehicle that has a spare. If going east of the Mississippi, a tow truck is never more than 45min away.

    I do have one positive run flat story... I hit a huge pot hole leaving downtown one time, and halfway home the TPMS light came on. When I got home I noticed the pot hole had split the sidewall of the tire. It was nice not having to stop in the middle of rush hour traffic with a flat, but not nice enough to actually replace the run flats :laughing:
     
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