Tyre pressure warning

Getting a proper patch is either free from the tire shop where bought or $15 at a local used tire shop. The free shop includes inside tire inspection and balance. The v has a spare which has been used twice in 14 years for less than a day.

 

Here, tire repairs (with a combined patch and plug) and rebalancing are free at the American Tire Depot locations, even if you didn’t buy the tire from them.

 

I have had good success using plugs over many years. This Project Farm video gives me confidence that they are pretty good - especially for a vehicle that alarms if the tire pressure drops below an acceptable level. He repairs a tire with 100 plugs at 12:07 in the video:

 

So, only after six weeks, I got a nail in the same right rear tire. Since it had a two-year warranty, I took it to Downey Toyota again today and had it replaced with a brand-new one free of charge under warranty. (They don’t repair tires at Toyota dealers.) In hindsight, I was very lucky that Priority Tire had sent me the wrong tire and I had got it from the Toyota dealer instead. From now on, I will only get them from the Toyota dealer, considering the nail/screw issues and warranty.



@Mendel Leisk, why do I keep getting these nails/screws in my tire? This is the third one in six months in the same tire. Have you had a similar problem? During the first four years, I had no nails/screws.

 

Remember that chain-mail letter you shredded…

 

Why does the chicken cross the road? The answer is literal and straightforward. Same with nails. Generally construction areas have them on the road. Some garages have stuff lying around as well.

 

There's one corner of a nearby Rona parking lot (lumber/hardware place up here) I stay clear of: it's where they sometimes stack bundled lumber. The bundles are typically wrapped with thin-plastic tarp material, secured with long staples shot through little plastic disks. The workers there have a propensity to pull the covers off right there in the parking lot, and those staples-disk combos fly all over the place, and more-often-than-not end up with staple tips pointing skyward. Besides car tires, an unpleasant surprise if you're wearing thin-sole shoes...

 

OR you've pissed someone off and they're taking it out on your tires.

 

Hey there, same thing happened to me and after I realize these factory tires just get flats due to the nature of their low profile, I decided to just switch my entire wheel setup and use 235/45 for my tires, never had an issue since, cross my fingers. Cheers!