hesimeustic
09-13-2013, 10:33 AM
Hey all, I'm new to the forum here although I was out for an SPDA day at DDT on July 7th. I was out at Mosport long track on Tuesday and at some point got a screw in one of my tires: based on shape and size of the head I'm hoping it's a short one like one of these:
http://www.wikihow.com/images/8/8b/Type-of-screw-Step-1.jpg
It's in the meaty part of the tread, not in a groove, and fortunately not in the sidewall. I haven't pulled it out of the tire and haven't lost pressure either, drove home on it and it was fine. I would have had it fixed at Mosport but the tire guys weren't there on Tuesday. The reason I'm posting here is that a lot of the guys at the track were telling me that a good tire shop can remove the tire and patch it professionally from the inside. If anyone here has done this I'd like to hear about who did the work as I'm leery of putting a regular plug into a track tire.
http://www.wikihow.com/images/8/8b/Type-of-screw-Step-1.jpg
It's in the meaty part of the tread, not in a groove, and fortunately not in the sidewall. I haven't pulled it out of the tire and haven't lost pressure either, drove home on it and it was fine. I would have had it fixed at Mosport but the tire guys weren't there on Tuesday. The reason I'm posting here is that a lot of the guys at the track were telling me that a good tire shop can remove the tire and patch it professionally from the inside. If anyone here has done this I'd like to hear about who did the work as I'm leery of putting a regular plug into a track tire.