France in Focus

I have a problem with a nail or screw stuck in the tread of a tyre, so need to get a repair done as it deflates over a couple of days. Before I go to the local repairer is it still in order to repair tyres like this. Usually, from recollection, they remove the offending screw and put some sort of plug in the tyre, I ask because once before I had a slow leak and the garage said the wheel was deformed, but they were unable to put an inner tube in the wheel, not allowed. I don't want to get tucked up with the old, "we cant do that you need a new tyre, and we must fit another one on the other side as well"

Sorry to say it, but that's probably the way it will go. My daughter had a spate of nails in a tyre - she was beginning to think sabotage! Each time, new tyre needed -oh, and of course we have to replace both, as suddenly they can't match the opposite tyre with one. She's collecting perfectly good "spare" tyres now!

I might have known, bloody rip off again

Our local garage 'plugged' a nail hole a couple of years ago with no questions.
I took the wheel & tyre in to them & collected it the next day.
Maybe best not to take it to a tyre sales only place.
Been fine so far

I am wondering if that is a way around any legislation, if I take just the wheel and tyre in there and refit it myself, then the garage are not fitting it back on the car?

Evidently it appears that a repair is possible as it is nowhere near the sidewall.

It is proximity to sidewall that is normally the issue - and as you say a plug is one fix that can be done with the tyre on the rim.

I have also had fixes where a kind of patch is applied on the inside of the tyre - but obviously that requires more work for the tyre company.

It appears that any repair of anything is a real money spinner. Dust off your credit cards folks.

Hotrodder wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:08 am It appears that any repair of anything is a real money spinner. Dust off your credit cards folks.

Cost me just a few euros to get my tyre 'plugged'.
Can't remember exactly how much but certainly less than 20.

Fitting a plug to repair a small puncture in a tubeless tyre is a very straightforward DIY job these days. I carry a kit to do just that. Mine came from Amazon. YouTube has a lot of advice on the subject including about when it’s viable and when it’s not. The thing you must not do if you want a tyre shop to repair the tyre is to use a repair goo, either from a spray can or via an attachment to the tyre pump that came with your car.