Patching For Foam Pumped Punctured Tire

Mookie77 · 08-27-2009, 02:33 AM

Fellow friends,

Just curious, can a foam pumped punctred tires be patched. How does this foam thingy work anyway. Thanks in advance.

Mookie77 · 08-28-2009, 09:39 PM

No one out there have such experienced? Appreciate some sharing regarding pathcing of foam filled puntured tires. Can it be done? Help help

Borsig · 08-28-2009, 09:51 PM

be friendly to your tire guy and dont use foam. Use slime.

As to the patching thing... I dont know.. If its a RFT you arent suppsed to.

ceb · 08-29-2009, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Borsig

...As to the patching thing... I dont know.. If its a RFT you arent suppsed to.

RFT can be patched just like "normal" tires...

scheherazade · 08-31-2009, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ceb

RFT can be patched just like "normal" tires...

+1

I 'plugged' mine this weekend with a simple 5 dollar tyre plug kit.

All of a couple minutes work, and a few more minutes with a 12v pump to re-fill the tire. ~10 minute turn around time from flat to driving off.

IMHO the "don't patch RFT" talk is *mostly* trying to get people with more money than brains to spend some cash.

Granted that if you drive a bunch on a flat RFT you should throw it away... as the sidewalls will be mangled.
(You don't drive on a non-RFT... so it doesn't get damaged after the flat)

Furthermore, a hole in a sidewall while you drive on it and mangle it up a bunch, will only turn into a crack/tear.

If you're gonna patch it, pull over right away. Don't wreck the tyre and then expect it to be good to go after a simple patch/plug job.

I keep a fix-it kit in the trunk, and a 12v pump that works on the cigarette lighter plug.

-scheherazade

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