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Originally Posted by StapledShut  It's lost quite a bit of air. It isn't completely flat, mind you, but bad enough that I should refill it before going anywhere. Son of a bitch... I gotta see if I can find a jack somewhere in this house so I can get the thing off of there and try to find the leak. |
For that I usually keep some of those tar plugs and plugging tool that you can buy @ Discount Auto for about $ 5 in the event it's a nail. Service stations usually try to get you to patch them for $ 15 or more, they've even raised plugging them to $ 7-8 to discourage plugging. The do it yourselfer kit isn't bad for a nail if it isn't a huge railroad spike sized nail.
To be honest, I had a patch done once during the FL rainy season. You hit a puddle of water and water doesn't compress so the force actually hits the hole and forces it's way in and works the patch free. That patch lasted about 2-3 weeks. With that particular tire, I put a plug in that didn't last but about 2-3 weeks and finally I used an inner tube that got me down the road another month before it finally blew. I think I put another $ 30-40 into the tire, before eventually replacing the entire set. I drive about 300+ miles a week so 1,200 more miles on low tread tires before replacing the whole set.