Flat in my driveway - HELP!

Use your 2nd car to get a tire inflator.

There's a pretty good chance you can buy a small electric inflator nearby, and a reasonable chance that it will let you put enough air in that tire to get the whole vehicle to a tire repair facility.

I'm in a very similar situation myself at the moment. Our Prius sprung a leak in one tire, about 10 minutes after I had ordered a complete replacement set of tires. It sits in my garage on its flat tire. I will pump it up on Saturday morning and drive it to its appointment at my preferred tire shop.

(I could deploy the spare, but this tire needs 20+ hours to get from safe pressure to unsafe pressure, and my tire shop is 0.5 hours away. Your timing might not be so good.)

 

The manual shows the jack points on a different page. Check the index for the page number. (I don't remember offhand)

Jack it up with the jack from your Elantra, stick a jack stand under it if you've got one, pop the tire off, and take it to a tire shop to see if it can be repaired.

The other option is what Leadfoot said: Use a tire inflator to see if it's a slow leak or a fast leak. If slow, try driving it to the tire shop and let them do all the work.

I've never used the Toyota stuff in the back, but maybe you can use the provided inflator without using the goop.

 

... or use a bicycle tire pump, if one is immediately at hand. The full-size floor-standing type, not the handle-held portable type that cyclists carry while riding.

Of course, this type of pump is good only for slow leaks like this:

 

Edit: never mind, see following post.

I thought the only restriction with that pump was that once it was used with sealant it couldn't be used again.

...in other words, fine to use it dry for your purposes to get the Prius to a tire shop.

 

I recently had same issue. But it was a fast leak. I bought a tire inflator at Ace and used it to fill the tire to get me to a place to patch the tire. Fast leak so had to stop every 10 minutes to re-fill the air.

The supplied repair kit will not inflate without the sealant. The supplied connectors force you to use the sealant.

Wish I thought of buying this thing years ago - I've inflated my tires many times at gas stations due to slow leaks, but this time the fast leak had me rethink the approach!

This is the one I bought: https://www.acehardware.com/departments/automotive-rv-and-marine/tire-maintenance/tire-pumps-and-accessories/8386286

 

Wide selection of inflators out there. Even slime ones that can used without the slime, and have cheaper slime refills.

 

Have you tried America’s Tire? I did a research for both 195/50R19 and 195/60R17 and they are available in 1-5 business days.
I have a floor jack and tire repair kit at home. I’ve plugged my tires ~20 times thru the years, many are in the shoulder area. Never a problem.

 

1. You can go old school - put a tube in there, re-balance and your on the road.
2. Put a equivalent doughnut spare in the rear. At least you'll be able to move the car around.

You've got options - guilt the dealership into giving you a doughnut spare or steely - hopefully it isn't an AWD. That will set-off your traction control on top of your tire pressure warning lamp.

Hope this helps.....

 

Tire Rack says they're going to get a shipment of Michelin Primacys on Tuesday, and they say they can get one to you by Thursday.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Michelin&tireModel=Primacy+A%2FS&partnum=95HR9PAS&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes&autoMake=Toyota&autoYear=2023&autoModel=Prius&autoModClar=Limited

BTW, the Civic doesn't use the same size tire.

 

Anoher reason why I'm getting rid of the 19's and getting new 17's w/tires from TireRack.
More options for tires, especially if needing a replacement on the road in tim-buc-too

 

I'd stay away from the sealant if you can. It makes a mess and could possibly make your tire hard to balance in the end.

For a car in the driveway, when you have another mode of transportation, I'd pull the wheel off and take it to the tire shop like you did.

Maybe instead of looking for a single tire of what came with the car, look for 4 new tires (and order the one, or two if you've driven more than a few miles) for later. At some point, you're going to need another 4 tires, so you can pull out the originals then.

 

Had the same happen to me yesterday. It was a slow leak, but the tire was dead flat this morning. I have a compressor in my garage, so pumped it up and drove to a local garage. I couldn't really go to work or it would have been flat by afternoon. In 15 minutes it went from 32 to 25 psi... They were able to patch it up.

With another car I would have just put on the spare in the morning and put the flat tire in the trunk. I would have gone about my day normally and stopped at a garage whenever it was convenient. I know many other have said it, but damn I miss having a spare.

Next step will be to get a set of winters so that I can make do if needed, as long as I'm close to home.