Tire Repair at our Haines City shop

Three things, and all of them get checked with the tire off the wheel: where the injury is, meaning inside the tread face rather than out on the shoulder or sidewall, how big it is, and what angle it went in at. A nail that traveled sideways under the tread does more damage than the hole suggests. Repair standards set those limits, not us, and we'll show you where yours falls.

The right repair uses both, as one piece. A plug alone fills the hole but doesn't seal the inner liner, so moisture can still work its way to the steel belts and rust them from the inside. A patch alone seals the liner but leaves the injury channel open. The combination unit does both jobs, which is why it's the standard.

Sometimes, as long as the injuries are separated from each other and each one is in the repairable area on its own. What we won't do is put a new repair on top of or overlapping an old one, because you can't reliably seal a patch to a patch. If a tire is collecting punctures, that's usually a road or a jobsite problem worth talking about.

It depends on the manufacturer, and they don't all agree. Some allow repair under specific conditions, and others say no once the tire has been driven on with low or no pressure. We check what the maker of your specific tire allows and inspect the inside for the heat damage that running flat causes. If it's outside what the manufacturer permits, we'll tell you that instead of guessing.

Yes, when the injury was in the repairable area and the repair was done from the inside with the tire dismounted. That's the entire reason the standards exist. The tires that come apart on the interstate are the ones repaired outside those limits, or the ones with an outside plug jammed into a sidewall.