When repairing your tire, a plug alone is not an acceptable repair. Your tire needs to be completely removed from the rim so that you can thoroughly see the damage.

Only then will you be able to plug and patch it correctly.

The correct repair of a punctured tire requires a plug for the hole and a patch for the area inside the tire that surrounds the puncture hole. The repair material used – for example, a “combination patch and plug” repair – must seal the inner liner and fill the injury in order to be considered a permanent repair.

Punctures through the tread (the part that has contact with the ground) can be repaired if they are not too big, but punctures to the sidewall (the part that does not have contact with the ground) should NOT be repaired.

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