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Archive for November 16th, 2006
Mystery
Posted by Ashley on November 16, 2006
I was driving my car and thought I had run over some glass that was left on the highway from an accident. I pulled into a store and from the inside of the running car I could hear the hiss of air escaping. I went to check the tire and it was rapidly becomeing flat. I put the donut tire on and took the flat tire to a tire repair shop.
They could not find any hole… they filled it with air and checked everything they could. They kept it over night and it held all of the air.
Can this be explained? Is there a reason this could happen? I’m sure this is a dumb question but no one could explain it and I’m afraid to trust the tire.
I will answer this question and "plug" one of our products at the same time (pun intended). We offer a line of tires for on-off highway vehicles call DuraSeal. These tire feature a material that is built into the tire that plugs a hole (up to 1/4" in diameter) by filling the hole with a gummy, yellow material. In your case, it is possible that as the air rushed out of the hole in the tire, it pulled something into the hole that plugged it. This is exactly how DuraSeal works. If you have the tire dismounted, a tire expert might be able to find the hole in the liner of the tire and, if in a repairable area, fix the tire properly.