Truck tire sidewall patch???

[DIYjunkie]

There's a caveat to that. If say your vehicle is all wheel drive, the new tire should not have more than 3/32" tread or less than existing tires, as that can cause premature damage to your drive train. At that point you'd need 4 new tires.

 

[Jstpssng]

There's a caveat to that. If say your vehicle is all wheel drive, the new tire should not have more than 3/32" tread or less than existing tires, as that can cause premature damage to your drive train. At that point you'd need 4 new tires.

Your other choice is to have the new tire shaved to match the others. I have to say that it doesn't seem right to intentionally take tread off a brand new tire. (Although I may have done so a few times back in my younger days. )

 

[DIYjunkie]

Your other choice is to have the new tire shaved to match the others. I have to say that it doesn't seem right to intentionally take tread off a brand new tire. (Although I may have done so a few times back in my younger days. )

Never been to or worked at a place that does that, if that is a thing.

 

[Jstpssng]

Never been to or worked at a place that does that, if that is a thing.

Shaving at Tire Rack
I encountered this years ago while trying to buy tires at Sears for one axle on my 4x4 pickup. They gave me the choice of buying 4 or getting the new ones shaved... I went with option 3 and went someplace else.

 

[bdog]

It is a safety risk and I can’t say I recommend it but I have had hundreds of sidewall punctures repaired over the years. I work in the oilfield and now we use UTV’s for bouncing around the pasture but from 1994 to 2014 we used pickups. Imagine four pickups driving around off-road all day for 12 hours and never touching pavement. Yeah we had a ton of flats. I am not exaggerating when I say we repaired hundreds of sidewall punctures. If the hole is much bigger than a pencil we didn’t have good luck with repairs but smaller than that they held.

 

[dmccarty]

There's a caveat to that. If say your vehicle is all wheel drive, the new tire should not have more than 3/32" tread or less than existing tires, as that can cause premature damage to your drive train. At that point you'd need 4 new tires.

That is true for SOME AWD vehicles but not all. Ye have to read the manual. We had and AWD Volvo which got some flat tires. Some bozo dropped a bunch of nails all over the roads and the local repair shops where fixing flats for weeks. We had pretty new tires and one of the tires could not be fixed so we had to buy four new tires. I did some reading when this happened and some AWD require the tires to be close in size, other AWD designs do not. Tis a scatting design and build that requires all tires to be the same size, especially the little size difference they specify.

Later,
Dan

 

[BHD]

one can always run a tire tube in the tire,

if it was slice or a cut that is one thing but small puncture should not bother the side all integrity, most likely none of the structural cords were damaged, all you lost was the ability of seal for air leakage,

grind off any protruding part of the plug, and put in a tube and be on your way,

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I f you still have a concern use that tire for a spare,