There are a few of those, always seem to do a good job with patches. When we were in Vegas I had at least 200 tires patched with the mex tire shops especially in the middle of the night when staff needed.
That is the only shop we used to buy tires from in Vegas and Henderson due to the client services they provided, always free repair, always had the tire protection seems like a big waste of money but well worth it if you are dealing with dozens and dozens of big dollar tires getting damaged.
Rope style plugs do the same thing....you're shoving 2 pieces (folded in half) of a rope through a hole 1/2 the size of the rope...it's gonna "mushroom" once it get through the hole and act somewhat like a patch. Add a bit of vulcanizing cement and you have what I believe to be an excellent repair. It won't ever come out if installed correctly, and the rope will fill in the voids on the coarse sides of the puncture way better IMO than a straight rubber patch plug, because it's got texture to it and because it's a rope.
I doubt this applies but its a great Mexican tire story.... I had a nail in my truck tire for a week and I was thinking the noise was a rock thatd find its way out... came out from store to hear a hissing sound so flew home and ended up finding a remote tire fix guy. two guys on a flatbed with a compressor were at my place in 30 minutes. They yanked that wheel off and removed tire from wheel to patch the interior saying they dont do plugs ever. In Mexico we have such poor roads with pot holes so these guys do great biz. They were there for maybe 15 minutes and gone. Its been a year and smooth sailing.
How do you not have a useful son in law?
LOL, we were just talking about that.
That’s all I use. It’s in the flat of the tire, I would repair. They make more selling a tire than doing a repair.
I would buy her new car. Instead of patch tire. Just saying!
Did they find a shop to plug/patch it?
