XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: max@max.is.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 19:53:05 -0400, Ed P wrote:   
      
   > In recent years I've only had two flats.  One was plugged and lasted 4   
   > years until it, like the others, was worn.  The last one was bout 6   
   > months ago. Patched inside, re-balanced.  Total was $28 and a half hour.   
      
   I don't normally get flats myself, but I was counting the whole family.   
   It average to something like one flat a year, which, at $28 would be fine   
   but it's more than four times that when they talk you into a new tire.   
      
   I don't think your half hour is even close to the time unless you were able   
   to drive on the flat tire, as I'd say it takes at least a half hour just to   
   remove all the crap in the trunk, remove the spare, figure out where the   
   jack is, put it together, remove the old tire, and throw it back in the   
   trunk.   
      
   Then there's the wait at the tire shop where just waiting on the line could   
   be half of that half hour. So unless you live across the street from the   
   GoodYear tire shop, it's almost impossible for it to be a half hour where I   
   live. The commute alone is an hour.   
      
   > I've heard they no longer plug tires as they don't always hold up as   
   > well as a patch inside.   
      
   The guy showed me a "t-shaped" round patch with a wire in the middle what   
   was blue on the inside end and black on the outside end. He called it a   
   patchplug as I recall and he definitely removed the tire because he showed   
   me the inside of the tire.   
      
   > Good luck with your choice but I cannot justify buying equipment,   
   > especially since the time the tire was plugged I was 600 miles from home.   
      
   If I can save a hundred dollars a year, maybe the "tire press" will be less   
   than something like five years or five hundred dollars I'm hoping.   
      
   Do they sell a "tire press" for around five or six hundred dollars?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)