1999may06. I’m planning a trip, so today I didn’t need to see a flat tire on my car. It’s been awhile since I’ve had one; I decided to check some stuff out “on the net” and found this page from the Tire Industry Safety Council that indicates a “plug by itself is an unacceptable repair” and sort of goes on to recommend a combination plug-and-patch solution, but it’s limp-wristed and unacceptable literature for a group that claims superior knowledge of such things. Of course, when I talked to six different mechanics about just such a thing, most of them did plugs, or patches, one or other depending on the puncture, but not the combination shot. One mechanic took me to task for being “too critical” and then finally explained that pushing a plug through would rip through the new patch inside – sort of what I figured.
