How to repair a roadside puncture (best method for a car tyre) | Auto Expert John Cadogan
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I could have used that swivel light tonight, I have a tractor with a rooted front tyre stuck halfway down wombat shit hill. I am going to attempt a plug repair in the morning, probably 6 plugs to limp it back to shedistan to rip the bastard wheel off.
Love your work John.
John, you are missing another item from roadside tire repair essentials; 1 litre spray bottle with soap solution to detect slow leak punctures without the culprit sticking out.
“Never want to get stuck half way in…” these Videos are hilarious and downright brilliant. Thanks John
I was like “Oscar Goldman?” And then you said that famous line and I was like “holy heck I’ve not thought of Oscar’s name in years” from what was my favourite TV show from the early 70s. Awesome reference.
The “Project Farm” channel did a great review of different patch kits.
Just love my Olights.. bought 3 so far. Never had a light so good before and then quality and presentation box is just awesome.
Nice PSA John once again and I am really glad you mentioned the safety aspect of repairing or changing a tyre by the roadside! I still have my Rema Tip Top certificate of completion on how to successfully repair a punctured tyre from 1993, whilst attending a Polytechnic college, not quite the engineer myself!
Nice clear demo John. Your tech info/how to live with/care for vehicle videos are my favorites.
Always educational and free stuff as well!
You light up my day. Love your reviews
Another brilliant video John, thanks for a quick, easy explanation on how to use the bits in a tyre repair kit, brilliant as always!
Best tyre safety gizmo I have ever bought was a cheapo TPMS from EBay. I have been using them for years now (just the external ones) and change the sender batteries once a year. They aren't 100% accurate but they let you know quickly if one of the tyres is doing something a bit odd or if pressures need adjusting.
This kind of tutorials are highly beneficial.
This is a great video. A useful tip for anyone who uses their car for driving. Thank you John.
Huh? What else do you use your car for except driving?
Love the swivel, for someone that loves your show, there are now two topics of interest brightening my future, that would be you and the swivel.👍❤️
John, love your "delivery" & blunt force honesty! Watched your video on "fuel savers" and now I'm working my way thru your videos knowing I'll find honesty. Couldn't leave a comment in the "fuel saver" video so I had to but it on another one of your offerings. Please keep up the education, honesty & "NO Bull Shit" videos. THANKS!!!!
I love those fuglies, best invention this century.
Just ordered my Olight !
Thanks John
Thanks John great Video and demonstration on how to use tyre puncture repair kit.
John you are main dude!!!! Keep up the good work
A very nice show as always John 👍👍
Thanks for the glasses plug. Off to get some now (after watching the rest of the video)
Brilliant! I'm a motorcyclist, been carrying this type of tyre repair for years, a mini compressor, ( from Rocky Creek, not Dingo Piss), in my case. If you think a flat on a 4 wheeled conveyance is a pain, try it on a motorbike, no spare of any type!
Love ya work John, keep it up.
Best accessorie to have in any car or 4WD. Helped me get my Mother in law to see her sick brother in time down at Goulburn. If I didn't have it and had to wait for assistance . Let's just say I wouldn't of been the good son inlaw that I am. Well try and be.
Wow, glad you did this, showed how to use the kit, just bought one of the tyre repair kits. I opened the kit, and no instructions. Once lockdown is over, will be doing a great deal of driving, and especially at night. Will be going out to dinner and long drives to distant places. Would be very handy to have the swivel or other Olight torches, just in case I get a flat. Keep up the good work, any other auto tools would be good, how about scan tools?
You did such a great job talking up the olight swivels that they sold out🥲
Excellent advice JC. I keep some beef jerky strips in my MX-5 due to no spare tyre onboard.
I'm used to plugging tubeless tyres on motorcycles and find plugs have a higher success rate (and less mess) than a can of goop!
Another great report John. Looking forward to some more live streams. 👍
Thanks John - another great bit of expert advice, and helps avoid the shortcomings of a spacesaver spare on longer trips. I have purchased that reasonably priced puncture kit to add to my car emergency bag. Unfortunately the O-Light Swivel appears to be out of stock, so will have to make do with getting one of the kids to hold a burning jar of fuel to give me some roadside lighting in the interim.
Cars: getting bigger every year.
Also cars: no longer space for a proper spare.
Never underestimate a CEOs abillity to shaft their customer base for more profit.
No spare reduce the weight so they can put in some other gimmicks!
Thanks John. I didn't know about the bifocal safety glasses. Just ordered 3 pair!
Very good video, thanks.
Great vid. In the last 5 years I’ve had a total of 3 flat tyres. 1 of these I had to get new tyres as it was blown out on the side. Two new tyres straight up.
Ahhhh John. Another quality tutorial for the masses, most of whom are too offended by your singularly eclectic style to ever get to the meat of your content. Being one who is not thus offended, keep on MALS. Dude.
Thanks for that, did not know these kits existed. Looks like a far better option than the gunk/goo you inject through the valve.
You're a star mate. we have the honda jazz with no spare, but a tin of glue and a pump, Wowza, what a winner, But my point is the walkaround before you set off, just one of the normal things we all did back in the 50s/60s. And we lifted the bonnet and checked the oil and water levels on a regular basis, But it seems to me today most, just get in the car and drive away, possibly causing their own downfall.It seems to me we all need reminding, that from time to time accepting its a machine, and needs checking.Great video well done for this one ,Pete from Newark Notts uk.
Nice tip John
Enjoy the videos would love one of these for the boat
Just bought a makita 18v pump, very impressed! Yet to use my puncture repair kit thankfully.
Always have a leatherman on hand! DIY 101
Leatherman rocks...
They torches sound great would love one Lock downs suck so will have to wait
Another great vid John, if only people would follow basic principles and look after there car. Thanks
Awesome info mate, cheers 👍
Production values …… ✅, informative … ✅, interesting … ✅. Thanks again JC
I think the swivel light looks to be a fantastic idea!
The best way to avoid this situation is to refuse to buy a car that doesn't have a full size spare. These kits are useless if you get a puncture through the side of the tyre on a country road as has happened to me. Luckily my car had a proper spare.
Great torches to light up "Dingo Piss Creek" for us older folks!!
Most of my punctures in over 50 years of driving have been either a nail, a screw, a rivet or a heavy wire off cut. Now I have been driving with a plug kit etc for most of this year and I have been puncture free, Go Figure ? As for the O Light, I think a Swivel with Tiffany would be in order. Can you please supply both. Thanks. Love your work. 👍
yes the bloody builders, both times with me
Roofers are the worst, with their low side flat decks, open containers and no plugs to cover the slots for the rear carry rack. Rivets in gardens, on paths, driveways and everywhere else they can spread them. Our long term roofing contractor moved in next to our workshop for about two years. We did not get any punctures, possibly because they realised that they would get a hammer through the head if they f#@ked our tyres but several of the customers to the shop in front of them were not so lucky.
NB If you ever wondered why town/city councils in particular were so slow to change from solid tyres on their trucks to inflated tyres, there used to be quite a few horses on public roads which meant quite a few horse shoe nails to puncture tyres. That is why they tolerated the damage done to roads by solid tyre equipped vehicles for so many years.
yep.. just got a flat from a screwdriver bit stabbing the sidewall; no doubt from a tradie ute.
Heading to that well known Creek shortly and this would be very handing for all situations detailed. cheers John
A thoroughly enlightening explanation to get you out of the poo. A winner in my books. The good lady has been forced to endure one of those 'space waster' tyres in her car, and she has often thought of what might occur as we live in regional NSW.
Quite apart from her, I found it educational as well. Given that the local kangaroos are very fond of Ford Rangers - my ute of choice - and have a propensity for leaping out to get a closer look at it as I drive past, it is only fair that I have the ability to keep my tyres in good shape as well. Lest I have to stop to chat with one of these said roos about being more considerate of other road users - read, go back and check to ensure that it is indeed dead, and not having stupidly injured itself. If that occured, I would have no choice except to put another stamp on the door, along with attending to either the bullbar or body work ... again (Hill End seems to have roos with suicidal tendencies ... I kid you not)
I loved the video, I’m gonna buy one of those puncture-repair kits and an Oleg light too for my keychain.
I’ve used the DIY plugs before on both a 4x4 we owned and on my old Celica. They’re great and last a lot longer than I am willing to admit I left them in for.
Love the torches too!
Agreed, RR - they're only supposed to be temporary repairs, but they last for ages.
Knew a story the fix lasted as long as the tyre for the rest of its life.
@@GuitarsRockForever I may or may not have tested this hypothesis when I was young, silly and broke... and this may or may not have been on a nearly new tyre that I ended up putting about 40,000km on whilst plugged up.
I've heard many good things about tire plugs. I need to get a plug kit for my 4x4. Thanks for the tutorial! The torches look super useful also!
Once when I was out with a mate, one of his quad tyres had a slow leak. We found the spot, removed an old plug that had obviously been there for quite a while and put in a new plug. Job done. That vehicle spends far more time on rock than it does on grass or dirt so those tyres get a good workout on every trip.
Great bits of kit. Most plugs used: 20 in the sidewall of a mhigh performance side x side off roader. Got us back to base 35km away. Longest time left in a road tyre: 2 years. Worked fine but did start losing air pressure at the 1.8 year mark. Oldest tyre repair plug kit still useable: 30 years. But man those plugs ahd glued themselves to the paper bloody well. The kit came in a big cardboard box. No fancy plastic case. No car should be without a repair kit like these.
Thanks for this useful information.
My pleasure.
Pro tip when installing the plug is to have a decent amount of pressure in the tyre first; makes life a lot easier and lessens the risk of ripping the plug in half. The way we used to do it in a tyre shop was to set the plug up in the insertion tool, pump the tyre up, remove the puncture object, ream/file the hole, then remove and insert the plug. Job done 👍
Dear John,
Thank you for yet another great vid. Got the compressor with the car, but desperately need a Olight Swivel to search (or more to the point : find) the repair kit. It should be somewhere ... down there ... deep down in the dungeons of the car.
I would be (de-)lighted if you could set me up in that department.
Please keep up the good work and keep us informed / entertained on anything car related.
Cheers from The Netherlands!
Thanks John.
Haven’t even watched the video yet but I Approve 100% 🤟🏻
After a tyre is punctured it should be removed from the wheel to have the inside inspected. If the damage is minor like a nail hole a tyre patch should be used to seal the hole from the inside. Tyre repair plugs are for temporary use only. The so called tubeless tyre has the tube built in as a one piece construction. Puncture repair plugs may keep the tyre inflated but there is a risk of the inflation pressure making its way into the pluged hole seperating the construction layers rendering the tyre unsafe. This is why a permanent fix should be repaired from the inside of the tyre.
This is not a permanent repair. It only lasts as long as the tire itself.
Lucky Bastard here...
(PS. you safety message about changing tyres perfect, sans humor and sincere)
Thanks for the video. I'd only suggest getting a compressor that runs from the car battery. You can go MANY years before needing it!
Love the fuglies!!!!!!!!!
Thanks John, again very informative, you've earned a swig from your Dingo Piss Creek Distellery jug, Dingo Piss Creek Sump Oil Rum!🍻👍
+ diopter safety glasses are a life changer.
Especially the full area ones.
No more struggling with reading glasses under safety glasses.
thanks john
Yes they are great, I have used them, highly recommended, Your torch is also highly recommended, especially stuck on the side of the road at night, getting you out of a big problem, you need plenty of good bright light to get out of that B of a problem.
A torch is my favourite piece of EDC.
Great advice as usual. A point of interest, while the repair you showed will get one out of trouble on the side of the road, tyre places I've taken a flat tyre for repair state that the safest repair is done from the inside of the tyre.
it's not a permanent repair. It only lasts until the tire is worn out.
Great video John. After owning a car that went from a full spare to a ‘saver’ in the updated model, I decided never to buy a car with a space saver, based on your advice. Still handy to know.
Hi John, locked down in Melbourne enjoying some motoring sanity! I have a BMW with run flats. BMW sell a mobility kit which in my experience is expensive and only a very temporary solution with a high failure rate. I will be carrying plugs and compressor from now on. Thanks muchly!
These are what a service station used to chuck in your tyre for a permanent repair back when I was a kid. I remember Dad getting a puncture and it was repaired like this. No thought given to it being temporary.
I've had a plug in my one tyre for over 40,000km, so I don't know how they can call it "temporary?"
@@labourlawact7826
they are not meant to be driven over 100kmh. that's the reason the tyre repair place puts a patch in as well.
@@ursodermatt8809 Well, I drive at 130 km/h on the plug for 40k...
@@labourlawact7826
well yes, i am not saying you cannot. it is the specification or what ever.
@@ursodermatt8809 😊👋👍
Blow me (down with a feather) I like the torch John!
Have a unique way of explaining the bits and pieces of auto driving. I do enjoy your TH-cam channel and it has helped me a lot. Thanks ya old bastard. 😉 by the way where’s dingo creek????
Thanks John, Another great video. But I have a question - Someone told me that if the the flat Tyre was too easy to fix then probably the puncture damage was too wider to be patched by just one plug. Is that true? Should one use more than one plug if the puncture hole is big (too easy to fix)?
Some nice plugs.
I’m checking out the fuglies.
They are pretty good.
Pumping out phat beats at 100mph sounds like a recipe for disaster to me! 🤣. (That’s 160 km/hr for those of you not schooled in imperial & needless to say the humble Ozzy lawman may have a thing or two to say about that!). Great video John - I was thinking of getting a kit & you’ve well and truly convinced me!
Perfect timing. I just bought my son his first motorcycle & this is going to the top of his must watch video list. Bike tires are like magnets to those loose tradie nails on the road & there's no spare on a motorcycle, obviously.
On the Olight, I've got 7 of the little buggers. The AAA models & the tiny i1R 2 rechargeable are worth 10 times their weight in gold, and quality wise crap all over those cheap ones on fleabay & alinana. Plus I have developed a rather strange fetish for the orange that they use. The heir is also getting one for his keychain.
as someone who rode motorcycles for many years and has had a couple of front wheel punctures at high speed. let me offer this advice to your son. never! ride the center of the lane. as any crap that falls on the road will never get picked up by other vehicles and is just sitting there waiting for the first motorcycle to come along. ride where the car tyres have already had a sweep for you.
@@TaylerMade That's strange. I've been road riding for over 2 decades & have never had a front puncture. I've lost count of how many rear punctures I've had though. It's almost like every tradie nail on the road is Brian Mills from Taken & my rear wheel kidnapped their daughter.
Another good vid. I would love to have a new torch. The Ambulace service I work for provide us with a candle, to aluminate the road side. As you could imagine the wind plays hell with that idea. If I could whip out my very own Olight,crisis over.
Great channel 👌
30+ years of driving, and I can count the punctures I’ve had on half a hand. The 2 I’ve had, both because of the bead letting go while traversing the tracks to various fishing spots. Been ultra lucky, guess the gods of hell will no doubt unleash their fury on Me now. So better grab that repair kit ASAP.
I frequented a particular site with my vehicle for 6 months and had 5 punctures (with tek screws). Wasn't till two years later why I always found that parking spot available. The subbies on site used it it as a defab site for their metal partitions and joked about it. I wasn't impressed when I found out.Taught me several lessons.
Great vid. It would be ideal if you could recommend several pumps for us, for different circumstances. E.g. the pump for cold climates, most compact yet reliable for motorcyclists and SMART users, piston vs membrane, autonomous vs 12v battery from your car, for trucks etc. What is the different tech used in them and what should we look for in one? Thanks upfront.
Great info John, had a set for years (gift) but never worked out how to use it. Is there a max speed with repair, or is it permanent? Hats off re the safety awareness - too many people needlessly put themselves and others in danger.
Mr Denoz, do you have stake knifes with that?
Hey John, loved the video. I do have one question and I hope I haven't missed it in another comment further down. You mentioned using multiple plugs if the hole was too big for a single one. I know this might seem dumb, but I'm wondering if that means multiple inserts with one plug at a time or jamming 2-3 plugs into the insert tool and plugging it in one go. Thanks.
very good article john, could you please tell me what the lubricant is?
i think it may be petroleum jelly, but not sure.
Fantastic but where do you but the kit. Can someone please tell me I love it I have a space saver and have always worried about using it..
Love you 6 million dollarman reference.
Great channel and great tip. I was wondering if there is anything you can do if the side wall has been damaged? Also are you going to review the new i30n DCT ;)
Hi John do those plugs work on run flat tyres?
I modified the handles on the reamer and needle to fit an impact driver socket, makes it easy to insert them without breaking your wrist.
Hi John. Couple of points to expand on your choice vid. If you are on a freeway or major road use the compressor to inflate the tyre/tire first and if it isn't gushing out like the inflatable man at your nearest used car yard it should give you enough time to get off the freeway to a safe position to deal with the problem. Second point once you repair the tyre/tire and a inflating it to the correct operating pressure listen for any creaking sounds which may indicate a potential sidewall failure is imminent stop inflating and stand clear. Final point it may rant, if it is just a Tek screw thats clicking and not a rivet out of the Titanic leave it in there and get to your local tyre shop as soon as you can as they do a pretty good job at sealing themselves just keep an eye on your pressures until you get there.
My WH Statesman has a full size spare. I am constantly amazed how a screw laying flat on the road ends up at a perfect 90 deg angle into your tyre. Just like it was put there with a portable drill/driver.
I have repaired many punctures in this manner over the years, without too much difficulty. A few weeks ago I had a puncture from a tek screw in my wife’s car with Pirelli Dragonsport tyres.
Well maybe I am getting old and frail, but be damned if I could get the reamer in to condition the hole. I don’t know what those tyres have as reinforcing, but I could not get it in. Eventually I pulled out the cordless drill and a 6mm drill bit solved the problem.
Some of them have kevlar now.
Proper temp plugs, in UK they tend to be sold as truck repair kits but they are good on bike tyres as they do not split like rubber stuff if carcass is has metal construction. As many have said, they do end up being used far longer than they should, not sure if that is a bad or good thing. Great stuff.
On a bike I can't have the whole box, so just a stanley blade, spike and some gas bottles (maybe some pliers to pull out offending nail) to get some air in so you can get to a fuel station.
Another great lesson learned from the master of the fat cave.
This started like Project Farm videos, I was waiting for you to say "we're going to test that".
John, what are your thoughts on these products, not as good as a plug kit of course, but wondered if you'd had experience of using these inflation type repair kits?
Hi John, thanks for the lesson, in the past (years ago) tyre dealers have told me "they are not allowed to do plugs", has this rule changed?
Check the latest Project Farm video. He tested a bunch of these tire repair kits. It is very informative, although I never had a flat tire that could be repaired by one of these things… Thanks John for the light recommendation. Got one of the tiny ones and keep it in the Leatherman pouch. It is the geekiest thing, but got me out of trouble a couple of times…
Yep watched project farm. He's great.
@@benjionetwo just when I bought a GT with no spare too...lol
Was just about to sugest that to the folks.
Good call mate, he also did a good reveive on tyre slime as well.
My local tyre shop has repaired a few of my tyres with the plug method, they said it was a permanent fix!
Hey John, I’m an emergency roadside assist service provider, one of these O lights would be absolutely magnificent for those night shifts.
Question. Is this type of repair OK on Run-flat tyres?
Safety glasses with built in reading magnifiers are awesome. There's another crowd called "Dual Eye Wear" who market glasses designed for the aging lycra brigade. As a dentist, I needed a lightweight, frameless pair. Unfortunately they are now US based, and are quite expensive.