Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Just have a quick question. When My wheel cam off the Bundy on the way home on the weekend it appears that it hit the body and staked it so it will no longer pump up. My question is can you repair the damamged sidewall (its only the size of a 10c peice) or can you run a tube in it? Its really annoying as they are like new and to just chuck it after less than 5000km will really p!ss me off!

legally no, welcome to the world of owning a 4wd

Take it to a tyre shop. They can send it to have a "Vulcanised" repair if it is within limits. Costs about $70. Worked on my BF's.

me3@neuralfibre.com wrote:Take it to a tyre shop. They can send it to have a "Vulcanised" repair if it is within limits. Costs about $70. Worked on my BF's.

Remember in the above situation Tiny's answer still applies.

Get it fixed up, either repaired or tubed, and use it as a spare. Go buy another tyre for everyday use though.
The best thing is, due to the low distance you've done on them, the new one won't be heaps chunkier than the rest

It's woo-ted, Mate. 10cent piece size hole in the sidewall is really a bin job. Even if you find someone to do a major repair it's still not going to be happy and the likelihood of it letting go later on down the track is pretty high, especially with reduced pressures offroad.
I'd save the money on the repair and put it towards a new tyre.
Maybe you could sweet talk a tyre guy into helping a fella out.

Talk soon,
Ryano

I used to work at a tyre service and do repairs in side walls all the time.
the biggest I ever done in a 4x4 tyre was about 3 1/2 inchs long.
one your size is nothing.
you would be better to get it fixed and run it out on the back just to get rid of it.
something that small you shouldn't have any problems with.
I staked one of my 33's after one trip and i fixed it and put it on the back and i am still running it now. that hole was about 2 1/2 inchs big.

cruiserkid wrote: you would be better to get it fixed and run it out on the back just to get rid of it.

That's a lot of kilometres for a repaired tyre ... he's only done under 5000kms on the set

i tore a 2" hole in the side of my 33" wrangler, my mate at the local beaurepaires volcanised it, i ran it for ages it now on my mates lux, gets the pressure dropped alll the time and still sweet as!!!

yeh get it vulcanised & put it back on , we do em on our work vehicles & prime mover all the time, everyone I've had repaired we've worn out
just be aware , all the repairs I've had done the area where it has been repaired , seem to perish prematurely. so i wouldn't be tempted to use as a spare as I think if you didn't wear the tyre out in a couple of years the repair would be starting to crack.

When i got my troopy EVERY tyre on it had side wall damage, all repaired with the vulcanising method.. One thing was my old girl can hardly crack
100 kmh so i had no probs, I only found out when i got newies that the PO had done so many repairs to them Imagine driving from sydney to SE queensland with them on I would repair it and use it as a spare

A couple of my old 33" MTRs had sidewall repairs (vulcanised) and all was sweet.
One of them I had to use 2 x tyre plugs in the hole to get home (was a worrying slow drive home ) Sent it away for a propper repair and good as new.