A tire repair expert explains why temporary plugs fail and recommends patch plug combos instead. Water seeps past plugs and rusts the steel belts inside, causing blowouts. Proper patching from the inside prevents this damage.
Do not use a tire plug to plug your tire. Let me tell you why. Now you see right there inside that hole, you can see those steel belts. There's an issue when water gets into those steel belts. So when you use the tire plug. Now, these things are made of yarn. Now let me ask you, what does yarn do? It absorbs water. Correct. So as you as that tire plug sits in there, it's going to absorb that water and it's going to rust out them steel belts. Now, I'm not saying don't use one to get you off the road in a mercy. What I'm saying is a lot of people use these and they just leave them in that tire until the tire is just flat out bald. You do not want to do that. If you're going to use a tire plug, use it as temporary and then have it repaired the right way. Now let me show you what needs to be done. Now what we use is a patch plug combo. They come in either two pieces, which is just the plug itself that goes inside the tire and the patch is separate. Now we use it all together. So what this does, this fills the hole up in there so water cannot get in there and rust those steel belts and then the patch adheres it to it. So you definitely and everybody, every bit of that's rubber, so there's no water gonna get in there. And Russell steel belts out. So your tire is not going to separate on you. Do not use tire plugs. These are only temporary. Go in there and get it repaired the right way. People.
