Can I Use Prius Tire Repair Kit Multiple Times

plug repair a motorcycle tire — Sacre bleu! The discovery we all dread, usually right earlier a ride. Don't attempt to repair a severe gash or cut, or a puncture in the sidewall of the tire. Once yous go the hole plugged, it's off to your dealer for a new tire.

Considering how bulletproof the rest of our motorcycles take go, it's ironic that it only takes a niggling 1 ½-inch box nail in a tire to bring the whole show to a halt. We're fortunate today that tubeless tire technology prevents intrusions by nails, screws and other foreign objects from condign catastrophic blowouts. The object usually stays in the hole, the only place from which the tire can lose air, so it deflates more slowly than a puncture in a tire with a tube on an unsealed spoked bicycle (which can lose air through all of the spoke nipples and even the tire bead). But even if that pointy affair does stay put and flush with the tread surface, as it flexes back and forth in the carcass the tire volition eventually deflate plenty to become a problem. Hopefully you will take noticed its presence or even received a depression tire-force per unit area warning earlier that happens.

Of course, if it doesn't stay put or is large enough to stick out of the tire (like a half dozen-inch gutter nail — don't ask), the tire will probably debunk rapidly enough to strand you by the roadside. Unless you're lucky enough to exist next to a motorcycle shop at the time, you're going to need either a good roadside assistance plan or a tubeless tire repair kit. (We'll cover tube-type tire roadside repairs in another installment).

Hither at Rider we've fixed enough tubeless punctures to appreciate that the near undecayed tire repair kit yous can deport uses rubber strings or "worms" for the plug that gets inserted into the tire, preferably the big red ones like those in the T-Handle Tubeless Tire Repair Kit from Stop & Go. There are more user-friendly plug types, simply the strings rarely let us downwards. If you've had good luck with liquid sealers, installed either pre- or post-puncture, more power to you — we ofttimes carry Slime for tube-type tires on bikes that have tubes in the promise of avoiding a roadside tire dismount. But we change bikes too often to make using the pre-installed sealers practical, and prefer to avoid irritating the mechanic who has to change a tubeless tire on a wheel full of messy sealer.

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Repair kits that utilize string plugs often come up with rubber cement, which — depending on the cord blazon — may not be necessary to complete the repair, just at a minimum it acts equally a lubricant to ease inserting the plug, and seems to help vulcanize the plug to the tire. It's important to keep your glue supply fresh (preferably unopened), or you may find that it has dried out when you demand it.

No matter what sort you apply, whatever plug inserted from the outside should be considered a very temporary repair used to get you and your bicycle to the nearest replacement tire. Limit your speed per the plug kit instructions, and replace the tire as soon every bit possible. Special patch plugs inserted from the inside of a tubeless tire are certainly safer, but even if y'all can find someone who will install one for you lot, every tire manufacturer (and even those who sell patch plugs) recommend replacing the tire instead since it has to come up off anyway.

The photos in this article cover the basic plugging procedure with condom strings. Depending on the size of the hole, y'all may need more than one — I once used 3 in an ATV tire and it got me back to camp.