Got a screw on tire, will Toyo cover it?

No spare tire cars have been on the roads for over 10 years.

I'm pretty happy with goo and plug kits in my car. If I was driving far from home in the middle of no-where at night I would probably buy a spare.

 

Ha, I think soon tires won’t get flats and we prii drivers are suffering, no room for a spare.

Right, other brands have been stuffing drivers with no spare, but other brands have room for one, prii are in an ugly position.

You get a flat, you jack it up, good luck.

You get the wheel off, you are of course dressed in an auto mechanics clothing, not a wool suit, or skirt..

You find a screw, you have the tool to remove it.....

You insert the plug, my prii didn’t come with a plug kit.....

You insert the liquid, oops, the hole is to big.

The oem tires are terrible, so we are alpha testing, the sooner we class action the better.

I would be silent on the issue if the prii came with Michelin defenders oem, but the prii comes with tires made as inexpensively as possible, we are alpha testing.

 

Neither did mine, but $8 solved the problem.

 

Ah, so you weren’t dressed in a wool suit or skirt and you knew you didn’t have a plug kit, so you bought one, or did you have to procure one after you found the flat?

And how dirty did you get getting the wheel off, finding the flat and removing the nail or screw or stone, and what tool did you happen to have to remove it.

I imagine 90% of prii drivers don’t carry plug kits, 50% don’t know where the jack and air pump are and 25% are not dressed in a manner to crawl around.

OK, 90% of prii drivers are close to large population centers, a phone call away.

Alpha testers unite.

 

Play the victim if that floats your boat, or be prepared. I choose the latter since it is simple, easy and cheap.

 

Wait: what?

Even one of these will do:



Just practice beforehand: getting the connector onto the connector valve correctly takes a little practice. It takes a while to bring a flat back up to pressure, but you get there: you are MOTIVATED. A pressure gauge is another must have.

 

Hard sentence to parse ? ;-)

I was saying that it has been over 10 years that new cars have been sold in the US that do not come with a spare tyre.

 

It might be an interesting thread to ask people what emergency stuff they put in their cars. My kit for each car includes:

• Tyre repair kit with goo
• Tyre repair kit with a plug
• Pliars
• Retractable knife
• Battery for recharging electronics or a dead 12v
• Disposable gloves
• Cleaning wipes
• Warm blanket
• Flashlight
• Box of Granola bars
• Bottle of water

My email reminds me once a year to give the kit a refresh. In answer to Lucifer, each of our cars has a mat in the hatch that works well for outside work on the ground.

 

I carry a premium plug kit from Amazon..

 

Gotcha, that at least the last decade there's been some vehicles sold without spares. Reading too fast.

 

Yep.
Somewhere around 1/3 for the past 5 years.
The trend is actually receding most recently, perhaps due to the increase in SUVs that have more space to waste and less concern about fuel economy.

 

they do that by law here. Had a slow leak on the model X. The local tire joint fixes stuff for free - knowing that you will feel beholden to them. What a hassle that was for them, because the Continental Tires on the X have a 1-inch foam lining (sound dampener) that the tire company has to saw out of the inside of tire to patch it from the inside - then they glue that piece foam that they cut out - back in before they remount & balance & put the wheel back on.
Meanwhile, the Tesla Service Center will rape you for the small fee of $50 to do the same thing. Jeeez! $50? .... that's 100 beers!

So yeah man, I know where we are going when it's time for new tread;
https://www.americastire.com/store/ca/lake-forest/s/1086
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Get your old-school plug repair kit before they're pulled off the shelves??

 

As someone who does roadside assistance out of my Prius for a living, I'll chime in on this one. Don't use the tire slime/goo stuff. It destroys your pressure sensor on the back side of your valve stem. Get a plug kit and read the directions. Tire manufacturers and shops say to only try to repair it if the puncture is a minimum of one inch from the edge of the tread. This is where the metal is inside the tire. I've done repairs on several tires including my own tires that didn't go through any metal at all. Even ones at the top of the sidewall. As long as there is no bubble, it should be good. All the tools you will need should be in the plug kit and the car itself. Don't buy a bicycle pump and pump up your tires. Just find a cheap electric one that plugs into a 12v outlet in your car. Sometimes you can even use it to keep putting air in a punctured tire so that you can get somewhere safely and not have to wait for a tow truck. I've done it a few times myself.

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Our recently decommissioned 2005 Sienna AWD had no spare but came with RunFlat tires. During the first 4 years of ownership, we had flat tires on those runflats twice, both times, they did not run after the flat, so the van had to be towed. Toyota was replacing prematurely wearing set of runflat tires free due to class action lawsuit. After second set of free OEM runflat tires were worn out, I changed them to regular tires and bought an extra set of used rims and put tires on for spares. We never had flat after that for 8 years straight. When you are prepared, flat does not happen. Go figure!

 

One of the tenets of cargo cult.

 

As mentioned above if it is a slow leak if you have a battery operated pump you can put some air in a slowly leaking tire then move to a better location to either repair it yourself or to a tire shop.

 

If purchasing a portable air compressor, I would recommend buying one that connects directly to 12V battery with clip, rather than one comes only with cigarette lighter adapter. I cheaped out for $10 and opted for one that came only with cigarette lighter adapter, and after repeatedly blowing fuse, I had to purchase direct battery connection cable.

 

I noticed on my receipt from Costco that they filled the tire with nitrogen and it looks like the price included doing the same to the other three. Is that worth the effort?

 

If it's free, maybe it's worth it. When I had my car filled with N2 for free at dealer, albeit non-scientific measures, I did not notice any difference in mpg or rate of tire pressure change over time with different temp. Atmospheric air is 78 percent nitrogen. I doubt 22% difference will make noticeable effect on tire pressure changes. Here is a good article summarizing the N2 vs. air Comparison of nitrogen versus air in your tires | TireBuyer.com