screw in my tire
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screw in my tire 
Was fixing my fog lights this morning and while i had the car jacked up i noticed that there is a screw in my passengers side front tire. No idea how long it has been there, but the tire is still holding pressure just fine. Question is, if i go to get it sealed, it should still be just as safe to drive on afterwards right? I just dont want a tire blowout at 100mph+ at the dragstrip.
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tire plug kit F.T.W.
if you take it to a tire shop, they'll **** up your rim dismounting or remounting the tire, have to rebalance the wheel after remounting the tire which they most likely will not resulting in a slightly out of balance wheel, and/or overtorque your lugs reinstalling the wheel causing rotor runout in a couple thousand miles and pulsating brakes.
Just pick up a tire plug kit from walmart, jack the car, do it yourself in 15 minutes. You'll probably need a drill with the right size drill bit to enlarge the whole to the right size to get the tire plugger in by hand, it's a bitch using the hand reamer.
I've have the goodyear 275/40-17 tire that came with my 2002 plugged, been fine for the past 20k or so miles and I've had the speedo triple digits a few times, and had the 16 inch tire on my altima plugged for i don't know how long and just had to get new tires because the originals were bald. never had a problem with a plug, have more problems when someone else does work on the car
if you take it to a tire shop, they'll **** up your rim dismounting or remounting the tire, have to rebalance the wheel after remounting the tire which they most likely will not resulting in a slightly out of balance wheel, and/or overtorque your lugs reinstalling the wheel causing rotor runout in a couple thousand miles and pulsating brakes.
Just pick up a tire plug kit from walmart, jack the car, do it yourself in 15 minutes. You'll probably need a drill with the right size drill bit to enlarge the whole to the right size to get the tire plugger in by hand, it's a bitch using the hand reamer.
I've have the goodyear 275/40-17 tire that came with my 2002 plugged, been fine for the past 20k or so miles and I've had the speedo triple digits a few times, and had the 16 inch tire on my altima plugged for i don't know how long and just had to get new tires because the originals were bald. never had a problem with a plug, have more problems when someone else does work on the car
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i know this might be blasphemy but you could take it to sears and have them do it. you can tell the good ones by the condition of the shop. at ours we take every precaution to not scratch rims, always torque to specs, and if we do mess something up we always fix it.
