Punctures
and Repairs
Repairs to tyres and tubes must be carried out to
meet the British Standard AU 159 and should always
be entrusted to a specialist. Essentially, this
means plugging a hole, not patching over it.
All punctured or damaged tyres should be removed
from the wheel for internal and external examination
to ensure that there is no hidden damage that could
cause a later failure.
Valuetyres.co.uk recommends that neither externally applied
patch repairs or liquid sealants are used to repair
a damaged tyre. Valuetyres.co.uk does not accept responsibility
for problems resulting from these types of repair.
For safety reasons, Valuetyres.co.uk does not recommend
more than two tread repairs for TR speed tyres and
one tread repair for higher speed rated cars. Repairs
should only ever be carried out in the safety zone
shown below.
Tyres should always be re-balanced after a puncture
repair.
|