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If you’re far from your nearest Tiger Wheel & Tyre and choose to make a temporary repair to the tyre, bring it in for a proper and complete repair as soon as possible.Always repair a punctured tyre immediately or as soon as possible.

Note: It’s important to balance the wheel/tyre (every time) after it has been repaired, since any work done to the tyre as well as its new placement on the wheel will affect the balance of the complete assembly. Patch: Before patching the inside, the tyre’s inner liner must be cleaned, buffed and cemented, then patched and coated to ensure its ability to retain air. Plug: This involves using a mushroom plug to fill the puncture-path from inside to outside, which is much stronger and safer to repair.

Fit tyre to wheel, inflate, balance and fit to vehicle.

If it is possible to repair the tyre (and makes economic sense) the next step is to repair the puncture using the plug and patch method to ensure that the entire path taken by the puncturing object is fully and completely filled. This is important, since a puncture may look straightforward on the outside but the object that penetrated it may have caused more extensive internal damage.

Remove the tyre from the wheel and thoroughly inspect it, inside and out.

These are the steps we take to ensure a proper repair: In fact, unless these steps are followed, many manufacturers assert that the repaired tyre should be treated as a non-speed rated tyre, while others will void its speed rating regardless of the integrity of the repair. Following this procedure is moreover essential to retain the tyre’s original speed and load rating.

There are several steps Tiger Wheel & Tyre take to properly repair a tyre and each is necessary to ensure the integrity of the repair.