Tyre plugs for repairing punctures now illegal?

[brad]

Ive gone to the local tyre retailer a couple of times and all ive ever paid was $16, ive even bought a repair kit myself and repaired a couple of punctures in my navara with out any drama and its not that difficult to do your self .

+1

The good thing about doing an internal repair is that you can inspect the insides for any other damage due to being run while flat or if a 4" nail has gone in through the tread area and looks OK but has started to gouge into the sidewall.

[Brendan_A]

For a proper internal mushroom plug - $25 is top dollar.

External (dog turd) repairs take <5mins & should be about $10. $15 tops. There's a guy near Liverpool my mate goes to & if you bought the tyres off him & the tyre/rim is already off the car, he does them for free & fits it back onto the hub for you.

The whole kit can be had on eBay, SCA or Bushranger products for $20 or less

Mine was a remove the tyre off the rim job and internal mushroom plug. About $22 from memory. Every tyre shop is going to charge different from one to another.

Who really cares how much the OP paid for the repair to his tyre. Better than paying $260 for a new tyre.

[LovemyGTI]

Mine was a remove the tyre off the rim job and internal mushroom plug. About $22 from memory. Every tyre shop is going to charge different from one to another.

Who really cares how much the OP paid for the repair to his tyre. Better than paying $260 for a new tyre.

Yep, I'm v. happy it's not a new tyre. Dunno about you guys but $25 is pretty reasonable for 20 minutes of work in Sydney (and I live on the rip-off North Shore). Bob Jane quoted me $31 over the phone.

Anyway, the moral of the story isn't so much "Don't pay $25 to repair a tyre and instead drive across town to pay just $16" but "Don't always trust a tyre shop when they say your tyre can't be repaired.". A bit like asking a real estate agent if you should renovate your current house or sell and move.

The other lesson I wanted to share is that GTI Mark 6 OEM Bridgestone tyres are tricky to order aftermarket so even if money isn't the issue, I don't really like driving on mismatched tyres.

[mikinoz]

For a proper internal mushroom plug - $25 is top dollar.

I think it is fair for the effort of splitting the rim and the insert. It is 15 minutes, so I call that a justified price.

[brad]

Who really cares how much the OP paid for the repair to his tyre.

Probably the same people that discuss how cheap they can get an MDI cable for, or how much they should pay for a wheel alignment.

It's a forum. One of the great things about forums is being able to find out whether you got a good deal & whether you should return to a service providor or not.

I guess this thread would have been a lot shorter if everyone had replied "tuff luck. you're up for a new tyre."