Replacing my spare tyre with a can of tyre weld... advice pls.

Hate · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:05

Due to the stupid amount of space in the boot that the spare tyre takes in the celica (due to the 4wd and fuel tank it actually sits on the boot floor so theres a lump) I was wondering on the practicality of having 2x cans of Tyre Weld in the car toolbox instead and maybe using the little trench left over for a car pc or something

Am I mad?

Psycrow · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:07

Tyre weld makes an utter mess of the inside of your wheel and if you have a puncture the man from the AA might bottle you for making such an awful mess of his van. Your better just not taking anything.
Random note but I just have a spare tyre in my boot at the moment, it allows loads more space, not quite as usful as a spare wheel but better than nothing.

Matt82 · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:09

ive been spare less for months now. im not worried, my golf never lets me down

ste_bla · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:09

You can only repair certain type of punctures plus it can ruin the tyre which might of have be fixable

Conscript · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:09

Psycrow said:
Tyre weld makes an utter mess of the inside of your wheel and if you have a puncture the man from the AA might bottle you for making such an awful mess of his van. Your better just not taking anything.
Random note but I just have a spare tyre in my boot at the moment, it allows loads more space, not quite as usful as a spare wheel but better than nothing.

Surely that's just as useless as nothing, unless you can fit a whole new tyre at the roadside? :confused:

Hate · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:30

ste_bla said:
You can only repair certain type of punctures plus it can ruin the tyre which might of have be fixable

Tbh, I would buy another tyre rather than have one repaired.

Giddy · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:45

No spare on the Coupe, nor run-flats like on the Roadster. Just good old fashioned breakdown cover

Kitchster_uk · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:47

Works for me, never had to use it but I have taken the spare out of the MR2 so I can use the from boot as well.

eidolon · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:51

Never carried a spare wheel for about 10 years now, always just relied on tyre weld. It's great stuff, far easier than messing around with spare wheels.

Psycrow · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:05

Conscript said:
Surely that's just as useless as nothing, unless you can fit a whole new tyre at the roadside?

Girlfriends brother has a mobile tyre fitting van so if I dont stray too far he can come fit it. If that fails I can get towed to somewhere I could get it fitted

Jonny69 · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:11

I have had 3 punctures in the last 5 years, all from driving over something like a screw or a nail and tyre weld has fixed them every time. In 2 of the occasions the tyre weld lasted the rest of the life of the tyre and the last one last week the tyre was totally on its last legs at replacement time and it got me to the tyre shop

Lopéz · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:14

Hate said:
Tbh, I would buy another tyre rather than have one repaired.

That's just wast for wastes sake - puncture repairs are commonplace and perfectly safe, why throw away an otherwise servicable tyre?

Psycrow · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:15

Interesting, I am probably biased against it from being out fitting tyres with my GFs brother. Whenever someone has used that weld stuff it made such a mess and made the puncture very hard to repair. Might just take a can with me if it does actually do the trick though.

Conscript · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:23

Psycrow said:
Girlfriends brother has a mobile tyre fitting van so if I dont stray too far he can come fit it. If that fails I can get towed to somewhere I could get it fitted

Fair one, I guess, but it sounds like a lot of hassle. I'd prefer to just swap the wheel out and be on my way. Drive a Focus though so having a full size steel spare in the book is not a problem.

Hate · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:35

Lopéz said:
That's just wast for wastes sake - puncture repairs are commonplace and perfectly safe, why throw away an otherwise servicable tyre?

You're welcome to it if you want it

Burnsy2023 · 2 Dec 2007 at 22:46

Hate said:
You're welcome to it if you want it

Or we could send the tree hugging hippies in to 'educate' you on wasting precious resources

Burnsy

Hate · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:25

There is a place around here that (no kidding) recycles tyres into notebook covers...

Fr0dders · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:02

to all the naysayers saying its not a good idea

remember certain Renaults come like this, with no option of a spare.

[TW]Fox · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:16

MrLOL said:
remember certain Renaults come like this, with no option of a spare.

Yes, and it's a bloody stupid idea.

Gaijin · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:36

No, because all the tyre weld in the world wont fix something like this:

Replacing my spare tyre with a can of tyre weld... advice pls.

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