Paulmitchell1984

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Does any body here still use them?

Iv got them in some 7.50 16's that are on my disco, noticed that my tyre had gone flat the other day so swapped it over for the spare and today went to try and get the puncture repaired....how much fun is that NOT

i tried 5 local garages and not one of them can do inner tube repairs, so ended up going to fourplus4 and they are supplying a new inner tube and fitting it for me.

So my question is if you use inner tubes where / how do you repair them can this be done at home by a diy'er etc?
 
you dont repair inner tubes, they're cheap as chips (well, 7.5quid chips anyway)
fitting is easy: have your high lift or crow bar ready. deflate, press tyre down with high lift or bar, peel out tube, put vent of new tube in hole and put tube inside, inflate slowly and keep fingers off tyre while doing so.

many if not all series tyres use tubes, so do many offroad tyres.

why would you want to repair it anyway?
 
My dad uses inner tubes on his grizzly claws on his Disco.

They are old tires and quite perished, they sealed on the rims just about, but we didn't trust them, so had inner tubes fitted. The wheels are only for going to/from events, and cover little road mileage.

We've only had a problem with one, but we just replaced it tbh.
 
you dont repair inner tubes, they're cheap as chips (well, 7.5quid chips anyway)
fitting is easy: have your high lift or crow bar ready. deflate, press tyre down with high lift or bar, peel out tube, put vent of new tube in hole and put tube inside, inflate slowly and keep fingers off tyre while doing so.

many if not all series tyres use tubes, so do many offroad tyres.

why would you want to repair it anyway?

thought it may be worth repairing rather than replacing basically,

when you say press down im assuming the wheel is off the car? and to just try and price the tyre inwards somehow.
do they not seal the same as tubless tyres then?
 
Does any body here still use them?

Iv got them in some 7.50 16's that are on my disco, noticed that my tyre had gone flat the other day so swapped it over for the spare and today went to try and get the puncture repaired....how much fun is that NOT

i tried 5 local garages and not one of them can do inner tube repairs, so ended up going to fourplus4 and they are supplying a new inner tube and fitting it for me.

So my question is if you use inner tubes where / how do you repair them can this be done at home by a diy'er etc?

i use champion tyres (ls11 9xe)..

got tubes in my 7.50x16..

new tube was tenner fitted..

punctures between £5 n £7... depends who charges ya... lol

they always been pretty helpful...
 
thought it may be worth repairing rather than replacing basically,

when you say press down im assuming the wheel is off the car? and to just try and price the tyre inwards somehow.
do they not seal the same as tubless tyres then?

ay
just take wheel off, deflate. then you can press the tyre down. depends on you tyre how hard it is to do that. i need my high lift (expecially its weight)
the tyres just sit on the rim, no seal, no glue, no nothing.
there was somewhere a how to, but cant be arsed to find it now as i'm knackered. try'n find it tomorrow tho.
 
this might help:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuFzNx1_qI]LANDROVER OFFROAD WHEEL AND TYRE CHANGE PT1 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UW7-E0pS8]LANDROVER OFFROAD WHEEL AND TYRE CHANGE PT2 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfGh511As0]LANDROVER OFFROAD WHEEL AND TYRE CHANGE PT3 - YouTube[/ame]

dunno if it's a complete tyre change or not (again, a bit late for me atm), but you can change tube without removing tyre completely (pushing inside)
 

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