Tire/wheel change on the road

time2roll wrote:
Back in the day when turning wrenches paid the rent I plugged at least 10 a week. Yes you need to enter the plug at the same angle as the hazard. Never had one come back. Patch on request was good too but cost 3x and took more time. Those all held fine also.

Well, if I had took off with that tire it would likely made a big bang. Would of been no reason to take it back to the repair guy. I would of never knew it was a bad repair that caused the issue.

Grit dog wrote:

JRscooby wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Good mention by Gjac. While flats are not super common, a lot of them can be rectified with a tire plug.
I’d almost hedge my bet on a plug kit and a compressor for roadside repairs. Aside from (old Goodyear Matathin) trailer tire blow outs and 1 truck blowout, in town, must have hit some debris on the freeway, most tire issues are picking up a nail, screw, bolt and could be plugged.
I carry plugs in the truck tool kits. Need to get air for the new truck.

Flats are not common. And not common, but I have seen happen with plug kits is ruin a tire.
The tire is flat. Put in enough air to find the hole. Run the tool thru to clean. Shove the plug in, air it up, on your way. Have done many times on construction equipment. But 1 time I killed a good tire on my trailer. Found the soft tire when inspecting before spending the night. Plugged/aired, went to bed. Next AM, a bulge bigger than fist on sidewall. Have the tire man break it down to replace the tire. What happened was the hazard had come in at a angle. When I cleaned the hole, I came straight in. Then I sealed the hole I made with the plug. Over night air under pressure, sealed by plug from escaping thru tread, had worked between the layers of the tire. If I had took off, got the tire hot and spinning, it would of blown. On a RGN, very little damage. But a TT or MH?
It's yours, you can do what you want. But on my snot, if a tire gets plugged that plug is coming from inside. And it will get a patch over the plug.

So you plugged a sidewall and not only that, but basically drilled straight through the tire rather than following the actual hole?
What could possibly go wrong?

Pro tip: That was NOT the tire plug's fault!

No, I did not plug a sidewall. The hole was a couple inches from center of a 11.0024.5 tire. The bulge showed on the sidewall because the softer sidewall stretched more than the tread. If it had been 1 of my tires, on my trailer, I would of pulled across the truckstop and payed the man to fix it. With that crane loaded on RGN, with stinger, getting to the shop would be a challenge. But if I was in charge, I would of had the shop send their road service guy to fix it. But the man that owned it was right there, in my truck. He went in and bought the plug kit.
Yes, I understand the plug should follow the road hazard hole. But my eyes are ducked up. Unless I can see the hole from in and outside, I can't guess the path of the hole. Maybe you can.
No, it was not the plug that caused the issue. But it was the idea of going cheap and easy that destroyed the tire carcass.
My truck tires, a nail hole would be plugged from inside, to keep water from getting to belts, then patched to keep air in it. Repaired that way I can have it capped.