what would you do???

Plug-n-go!

 

Yes, a new can fail, but why increase the risk of having a failure when it can be avoided?

 

I've got over 60k on a patched steer tire. Yes it was a patch with the plug in it. I always ask a repair shop to use them when repairing a tire.

T/A and Petro almost always refuse to repair a tire. They gave me a song and dance once about the nail going through the steel cord on a trailer tire and refused to repair it. I had them put my spare on, found a truck service shop 20 mi down the road and they repaired it for $35.

I avoid T/A and Petro for tire repairs when ever I can. I look for any other shop. Even Loves will repair what T/A wont.

Hurst

 

Can you show a link to that law.

The only steer tire I ever blew had less than 10,000 miles on it.

 

Did u save the tire?

Find a small tire shop in an agriculture town, thell patch it. Speaking from real experience!

 

Patch it up, use as a spare.

 

Plugs are the answer. Used them dozens of times on motorcycle tires, which arguably have worse consequences in a blowout, without incident. At worst, it will develop a slow leak. A tire blowout (defined as a catastrophic carcass failure resulting in nearly immediate air loss), is quite unlikely to happen from a small puncture.

Edit: worse consequences for the individual, unless rider is very lucky

 

It is legal to patch a steer, i have had it done a couple times with no problems at all. but they don't use a stand patch, it is a new type of fiber patch designed for steers. My tire shop will do it all day long and they sell tires to Petro and other shops around Elizabethtown, Ky. Petro and T/a, Loves are not going to pass up on a $600 dollar sale when they have you by the BALLS. They will give you it is against the law crap all the time. I had loves try to tell me once that it was not legal to patch a trailer tire.

 

"The most widely debated issue is definitely centered on the subject of repairing steer tires. In the 1990s, the industry sought regulatory guidance from the Dept. of Transportation when it needed answers to some questions: Is a nail hole repair (stem or plug) of the tread area of a steering axle tire considered a “boot, blowout patch or other ply repair,” and is it prohibited by Section 10(a)(10) of Appendix G to Subchapter B? At the time, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was not in existence, so the Office of Motor Carrier Research and Standards within the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) provided the answer: No. A nail hole repaired by using self-curing compounds or procured rubber inserts or stems, with a repair unit on the inside of the tire, is not prohibited by Section 10(a)(10) of Appendix G."

Whole article http://fleetowner.com/equipment/debating-steer-tire-repair

 

Oh and a plug is the last thing i would use on any tire, this is only for to keep air in for a very short distance. To use a plug you have to make the hole bigger in most cases.