http://areitzblog.disqus.com/enThu, 19 Feb 2009 19:12:18 -0000http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2009/02/flat-tire-early-2009.html#comment-6418815<p>You love your car. Get new tires and get over it :D</p>RushabhThu, 19 Feb 2009 19:12:18 -0000http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2009/02/flat-tire-early-2009.html#comment-6353016<p>I had a screw puncture my tire a week or so ago. If it's a puncture from a nail, screw, icepick, etc, you can buy a tire repair kit from almost any gas station or car parts place. it's a metal rasp you use to clean the hole after you pull out the sharp thing. then it has one or more gooey black sticks of god knows what. You thread that through this other tool that comes with (hard to describe, imagine a super big needle but the eye part at the end of a handle), put some rubber cement (also included) on it, and force it into the hole.</p><p>It takes a lot of effort to push it in and even more effort to pull the tool back out. the needle eye is actually not a full loop so the gooey thread can slip out. What you're left with is a gob of the goo and cement filling in where the hole is. You'll have to cut away excess goo.</p><p>it cost about $4 and I haven't had to refill the tire. It's well worth it if you can delay the purchase of a new tire for at least a few more months.</p><p>If your puncture isn't a clean hole but rather a gash, then you're basically screwed. There is this foam in a can stuff that you can use to fill a tire but that's really more of an emergency kind of thing so you can drive to get it replaced or properly repaired.</p>MarkTue, 17 Feb 2009 17:29:29 -0000