Tire won't hold air...
10-05-2011, 05:51 PM
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Tire won't hold air...
Long story short I hit a stump or rock or something while offroading, and now my tire doesn't hold air. I can hear it escaping on a certain spot where the tire meets the rim. did I bend a bead or something? How much do you think it would cost to get fixed?
10-05-2011, 06:05 PM
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well i'm definately not spending 250 on a new tire haha, but i was thinking fixing it would be around the 20-50 range? or is that too low?
10-05-2011, 06:18 PM
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It could be that something wedged it self between the tire and rim. Happened to my wifes patriot on the turnpike when she hit a pot hole. I deflated the tire and cleaned out the area with a flat screw driver and reinflated. worked out great.
10-05-2011, 07:01 PM
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going to try that. righnow.
10-05-2011, 07:22 PM
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If its a small rim leak, u can put some tar on the inside bead and it will seal between the rim and tire. That's what we did for rim leaks when I worked at belle tire.
10-05-2011, 08:45 PM
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10-06-2011, 08:40 AM
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tire slime...works great
http://www.slime.com/
http://www.slime.com/
Don't use this. It sucks for people changing tires and hardly works.
10-06-2011, 08:46 AM
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thats why i pay some one to change the tire... if it were easy i would do it myself. i'm not worried about tire guy having a rough day if i have a flat on the trail and need to get home I'm slime ing away
10-06-2011, 08:38 PM
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steel rim poss bent ,hit it with a hammer where air is escaping if it bent if not most likely trash got shoved into bead dismount and clean ahd remount air it up and go
10-07-2011, 10:44 AM
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but honestly I've used the stuff in 2 different tires over the past couple years and it's worked perfectly for me