Tyre repair kits

[disco stu]

After reading all this, I'm trying to figure the type that I've purchased in the past multiple times. The plugs were black and very sticky. You then coat it in what was termed an rubber cement. I'm confident it wasn't just a lubricant as it stayed around once things set. These plugs were in a packet of 5 between plastic, but were separated as if they ended up touching they would stick together really bad-couldn't get them apart.

I drove around for years with some of those plugs (in falcons, camry etc etc, not 4wd). More than one tire shop admitted that they just used those plugs when repairing customers tyres.

Anyone know which type I used?

[old Jack]

Hi Stu,

Sound like you were using cold chemical vulcanising plugs, and these are the best external temporary tyre plug you can use.
Either Tip Top Rema or Tech are the most common brands, Tech is available through Repco.

OJ.

[Having Fun]

Anyone want to speculate how long those brown plugs would last in a bag in the dark? 2 years? 10? 20?


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They are pretty much a hit & miss deal out of the packet, brand new. I've had experience supporting crews of guys cutting verges with ride on mowers & the tyres on those get staked A LOT. The company that owned the ride on's wouldn't buy decent plugs, so we were struggling, trying to plug up holes with those brown things. Some would work, some wouldn't


We used to use Bridgestone stores to repair the tyres properly once we were able to get the ride on back onto the trailer & take it to them - never once had any issues with them declining to repair a tyre because we'd put a brown plug/s into it.


Just my experience.

[dhula]

There is much confusing and conflicting advise about which type to use depending on where you ask that it's hard to know 100% for sure what you can, can't, should or shouldn't do, this thread included.


For me personally I've been using the brown wax type for many years with great success on cars, 4wd, motorbikes and in applications that are a little out of the norm so am happy to continue using them.
If done well and taking care then IMO they are a good bit of gear that is readily available and keep you on the road to get you home.

[Jasonmc73]

Hi Stu,

Sound like you were using cold chemical vulcanising plugs, and these are the best external temporary tyre plug you can use.
Either Tip Top Rema or Tech are the most common brands, Tech is available through Repco.

OJ.

Thanks for your time to bother to explain OJ.
I have used over the years many what I now know are wax plugs without issue.
I also see many used on tractor tyres & mower tyres.
But as you point out, depends what you want & where you are, pressure in tyres & how good A repair you would like?

Why not have the rite plugs ?? Glued plugs

& they should keep better along with the sealed glue tubes as you have pointed out if you don't use them for 10 years!

This passes the logic test in my eyes & i'm A logical man

[old Jack]

To me the most critical difference between an emergency brown wax plugs and cold chemical vulcanising plugs is the wax type fill and expand in the hole, but can leak if multiple plugs are required and in high ambient temperatures. The cold chemical vulcanising plugs, melt/glue to the tyre rubber and physically become a part of the tyre rubber through the cold chemical vulcanising process. In the USA these are deemed a legal permanent repair, however in Australia a legal tyre repair requires the tyre to be removed off the rim and inspected for structural damage and then either a mushroom plug or a radial patch followed by tyre liner sealer applied.

If your travels are regional and coastal then the wax plugs are a good emergency tyre repair but if you travel remote, heavy and off road then cold chemical vulcanising plugs are the best and most reliable plug system.

OJ.

[disco stu]

Thanks oj. The ones I used weren't real expensive at all from memory either

[mongoose]

I have an ARB kit, not sure if I have ever opened it and also have an R&R bead breaker never used but good insurance when away from civilisation.


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[kleinh17]

I'm lost, Rema TipTop has self-vulcanizing sets.. e.g. page 15 and page 19 (with sealing units (grey)). What is this now, self-vulcanizing or cold-vulcanizing?

https://www.rema-tiptop.com/fileadmin/data/common/downloads/catalogues/TT18058_Katalog_TRM_2018-19_EN_001-148_Final.pdf

PS: In Germany we use Rema TipTop since I was a kid (and probably long before) - to repair the tubes of our bicycles (with patches). I don't think there is any other brand being sold by bike shops.

[old Jack]

I'm lost, Rema TipTop has self-vulcanizing sets.. e.g. page 15 and page 19 (with sealing units (grey)). What is this now, self-vulcanizing or cold-vulcanizing?

https://www.rema-tiptop.com/fileadmin/data/common/downloads/catalogues/TT18058_Katalog_TRM_2018-19_EN_001-148_Final.pdf

PS: In Germany we use Rema TipTop since I was a kid (and probably long before) - to repair the tubes of our bicycles (with patches). I don't think there is any other brand being sold by bike shops.

The repair kits listed in the linked catalogue on pages 18 & 19 are only suitable to cross ply tyre's and not radials.

Kits for radial tyre's are on page 23.

OJ.

[Drewan]

Way back in the dark ages there was a ropy stuff you just kept shoving in that actually worked, and for the life of me cant remember whats its called . Just read the entire thread in the hope of enlightenmen, and Nope ill just stick with slime and a spare tube.

[old Jack]

This thread;

https://www2.pajeroclub.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=32771

OJ.