Pull it and buy a tire repair kit from your local autoparts store. for less than $20.00 it'll be good to go. Unless you know a mechanic that will do it for cheap.
If it was any further out the tire would have been toast, but in that location its fine.
-Chris
easy fix, some places may tell you its to close to the sidewall cause your not technically surpossed to plug anythign in the last tread blocks by the sidewalls but its over enough where you should be fine. I would say call around to tire places, hell my dealership even does free tire plugs.
i took it to my local tire shop and oddly enough.... it didnt even go through the tire!. with the size of the head i had thought for sure it was through lol...., oh well, good deal, had them rotate the tires while they were at it =)
most places wont plug anymore, they patch it from the inside, which yeah requires taking the tire off but its safer than a plug they say. and dont use fix o flat. mechanics hate it because its such a pain in the butt to work with.
Vincent Morris wrote:most places wont plug anymore, they patch it from the inside, which yeah requires taking the tire off but its safer than a plug they say. and dont use fix o flat. mechanics hate it because its such a pain in the butt to work with.
Fix a flat also slowly eats away at the inner liner of the tire, I do not suggest using it.
Do not use one of the plug kits you can buy at Wal-Mart or something, they work to get you by.. but they do not fully seal the tire usually.
Most places [i[will plug a tire, but it's a different kind of plug.. you have to take the tire off to put it in. Plug it, and then patch it. That's how I always do it, best way in my opinion.
Also, that looks like a Superstar GT-SR tire I believe, I run those on my stock Camaro wheels... not impressed at all, both rears are separated... glad I don't run the stockers anymore.
1983 Camaro Z28
I'd say just keep tightening the danm thing till it doesn't leak.
I never liked repairing tires around that area, leaks seem to come back later on. Especially if you drive hard.
Those look like Douglas Performance GT-H and fairly good condition, did you not buy them? Usually flat repairs are fairly inexpensive, not more than $6 around here and
most will not touch it for liabilty issues.
I use a patch/plug combo and they work great.. I had one in my tire in about the same place and its held for a long while now.
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frank hernandez wrote:I'd say just keep tightening the danm thing till it doesn't leak. I never liked repairing tires around that area, leaks seem to come back later on. Especially if you drive hard.
Those look like Douglas Performance GT-H and fairly good condition, did you not buy them? Usually flat repairs are fairly inexpensive, not more than $6 around here and
most will not touch it for liabilty issues.
Is Douglas another version of the Superstar? That's the exact same tread as the Superstars that are on my Camaro's stock wheels. Probably Wal-Marts version of the Superstar.. guarantee it..
Douglas makes a tire exactly the same as Goodyear's Skytrack... only it's even junkier..
1983 Camaro Z28
Douglas Performance GT-H is correct =)
they were on the car when i bought it. all 4 were like 95% new.
there is a pretty bad vibration now after they rotated the tires..., but he had said that i had waited to long and that the tread was uneven and i would feel it for at least a few 1000 km's........ he cross rotated the tires saying he didnt think they were directional. but the grooves in the tires do curve a certain way, but i dont see any arrow indicating there directional at all, anyone know?
Brian Lindsay wrote:Douglas Performance GT-H is correct =)
they were on the car when i bought it. all 4 were like 95% new.
there is a pretty bad vibration now after they rotated the tires..., but he had said that i had waited to long and that the tread was uneven and i would feel it for at least a few 1000 km's........ he cross rotated the tires saying he didnt think they were directional. but the grooves in the tires do curve a certain way, but i dont see any arrow indicating there directional at all, anyone know?
You had a guy rotate your tires and he didn't know if they were directional or not? I wouldn't go back to him, plain to see that they are not.
So, no, they aren't.. but I don't know if I would trust that guy.
How uneven is your tread? If it's really bad then it will vibrate, but if it's not that bad it shouldn't be terrible.... get them balanced next rotation, which you should do every 6000 miles, or just do it every other oil change.
^^ That was me... I had no idea that my mom had an account here.. @!#$ I thought it was me signed in. O_o Daaammmmnnnnn....
So yeah, anyway...
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1983 Camaro Z28
ya the vibration is more noticable at slower speeds. its not terrible or anything, just noticable. u can hear it also. but i guess the tread will even itself out with time........
Brian Lindsay wrote:ya the vibration is more noticable at slower speeds. its not terrible or anything, just noticable. u can hear it also. but i guess the tread will even itself out with time........
Yeah, it should eventually get better. But, there is a reason it got like that also, you probably need an alignment.
1983 Camaro Z28
Well it is a close call on what most people would do. Remember that Discount Tire does flat repairs for free. I would know since I do it all day long. We use a plug and patch for the best protection of a leak. A rope plug is stupid to put in that close to the side wall also. The plug can move around on the inside of the tire and rub on the sidewall. Also they don't seem like the tires are directional to me. The rotation that we do is we bring the front tires straight back and cross the backs to the front. I hope this helps you out.
TRD Cav Fire wrote:Well it is a close call on what most people would do. Remember that Discount Tire does flat repairs for free. I would know since I do it all day long. We use a plug and patch for the best protection of a leak. A rope plug is stupid to put in that close to the side wall also. The plug can move around on the inside of the tire and rub on the sidewall. Also they don't seem like the tires are directional to me. The rotation that we do is we bring the front tires straight back and cross the backs to the front. I hope this helps you out.
You only rotate like that for a FWD right?
We cross them to the drive wheels, so if it's RWD we cross to the back, FWD, cross to the front, and AWD we cross all of them.
I honestly am not sure why we do it like that, but that's just how they have done it where I am at for a long time.
1983 Camaro Z28
well yes those are douglas gt-h's and they are sold by wal-mart locations. they are goodyears cheapest brands and they are junk. that is patchable with the patch plug combo where a hole would be drilled then pulled through and then sealed. i would say replace these tires you got before too long because they will cause you problems
Not repairable, can't put a patch plug over a curve, if someone tells u otherwise it won't last for long and is not safe.
As for this directional tire, some tires and fully directional, semi and asymmetrical.
Point in case this, this is a firestone pv41 cop tire doesnt look like it matters which way u mount it BUT it does matter. clearly says OUTSIDE and INSIDE on the sidewall. doesnt matter which side its on, all four will be mounted like this.
That's not "directional" per say. They just have to be mounted like that because of how they handle weight, my BFGoodrich G-Force T/A KDWS tires are like that, as are my Nitto Neo Gens that I just bought.
1983 Camaro Z28
you can patch that but i wouldnt recomend a plug since there are no steel belts on that part of the tire, and that is what holds the plug in. but a patch will work great but only if done correctly. i have put patches on tires where the nail was right at the end of the treads and worked out great. but that is only if someone is cheap and doesnt want to buy a new tire. ive even seen people come in with plugs in the sidewall and said its held for years....i wouldnt do it but obviously people dont care if they kill a school of children. ive seen lot of messed up things at work.
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the plugs you do from the outside have a tendancy of breaking the belts in the tire. also when you rotate on a fwd the back tires come straight forward and cross the front to the back. On rwd you cross the backs to the front. that tire is patchable and you wouldnt need a plug patch for a hole that small just a regular patch.
