Short YouTube video (creator: Mike Melton) giving practical safety advice about tire patching. The speaker warns that lighting patch glue on fire is incorrect, changes the chemistry of the adhesive, can cause patches to fail, and may create dangerous driving conditions; he advises consumers to leave any shop that uses that method.
So when you patch a tire, a lot of people like the glue on fire. You're not supposed to do that. So if you're doing that, you've definitely been trained wrong. All you got to do, read the directions on the back of it. Nowhere in those directions says light glue on fire. So when you light the glue on fire, you totally change the chemical in the. In the glue itself. And when you do that, the patch is liable to not hold. So this is one of the main issues in the tire industry. The people are just not trained right. They're doing everything wrong that they think is right. Like, you know, back in the day, when you was a kid, you used to light your patch on fire to get it to stick, right? Well, you don't do that with passenger car tires. You're gonna do that, and you're gonna cause somebody to have an accident. Please do not do that. And if you're a customer or consumer going to a place that does that, just leave. So if you're somewhere getting your tire repaired and they light that tire on fire to try to make the patch stick, leave immediately.
