advice on tires...
03-28-2004, 02:43 PM
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for those who have low profile tires: 205/40/16, 205/40/17, 215/35/18, etc...(or pretty much any tire in general)... do NOT use Fix-a-Flat if you have a flat tire. at work today i got stuck tryin to find a leak on someones Celica w/ 215/35/18's. with fix a flat in it, you can't find a leak because, well, fix a flat makes it NOT leak. so i had to demount it (which is a PITA at that size), clean out the crap, remount it (which, again, is a PITA) and then look for the leak.....
and in the end, there wasn't even a leak. the kids mom thought the tire was flat. stupid woman doesn't realize that a 215/35 has no sidewall and you can't really tell if it's flat by lookin at it
GRRR. Fix a Flat isn't even good for a tire, and i think that it should be BANNED
(maybe this deserves to be in Gripes? i dunno. it's goin under tires for now)
and in the end, there wasn't even a leak. the kids mom thought the tire was flat. stupid woman doesn't realize that a 215/35 has no sidewall and you can't really tell if it's flat by lookin at it
GRRR. Fix a Flat isn't even good for a tire, and i think that it should be BANNED
(maybe this deserves to be in Gripes? i dunno. it's goin under tires for now)
03-31-2004, 05:48 AM
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This guy I met at a tire repair shop in Phoenix told me, if you have a steel rim and use that, it will rust from the inside. I'm not sure about aluminum wheels, but I think it would have some corrosion as well.
03-31-2004, 01:23 PM
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it just makes it for a hard time for the person repairing the tire (Such is the case with me). it's a mess, the fumes are horrible, and it's just a pain in the ass. grrr
03-31-2004, 05:06 PM
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I know how you feel when I used to wrench for a living instead of just plain fun that would happen. what's cool is I got high trying to fix the flat so it kinda just worked out heh.better Than driving a customers car in and smell like bigfoot and the manual window don't wine down try that .
