Tire Repair?

Se7enLC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:18 pm

I have a stock goodyear tire with a screw stuck in the tread and a pretty good scrape in the sidewall. I've already bought a new tire (General Grabber AT2), and I will be mounting it on the stock rim. Is there any point in getting the stock tire repaired? It has < 16k miles on it, tread still looks good, apart from the screw hole. I don't want to drive on it, but I wonder if there is any value in a tire that is repaired vs not?

raceinfan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:25 pm

Jeff fix it & put it on your roof rack & have a second spare

then it would realy look like a trail pig with 2 spares :lol:

,seriously I would fix it & keep it as a back up you never know,check it once and awhile to make sure it's holding air

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:27 pm

Both of my back tires have plugs. Be careful about that sidewall, that could cause a blow out.

Se7enLC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:21 am

I've only got the one spare rim to mount it on, so I'd really only end up with one spare. Plus, the other spare looks like a much better tire.

Would it make sense to repair and sell the leaky goodyear, or is that just wrong? As nice as it would be to have another spare, I think I want to work myself away from the goodyears, esp as I may be getting a lift within a year or two.

The guy at VIP gave me a weird look when I said I wanted to mount another tire. He said "what's wrong with this one? It's holding air". I guess not having the weight of the jeep on it stopped it from losing air - it was down to 25psi right when the puncture happened, and after I filled it back up, I could hear it audibly losing air again.

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