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FIRESTONE HAS BEEN THE NATION'S LEADING TIRE PROVIDER FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.
It's a tough road out there, and your tires bear the brunt of potholes, broken glass, nails, screws, and anything else that can puncture a tire. Firestone Complete Auto Care's flat tire repair services are the best in the business. We've been repairing tires since 1926, and we take pride in repairing America's tires. When tire damage strikes, come to Firestone Complete Auto Care–the tire repair shop you can trust.
If you suspect something is wrong with your vehicle's tires, don't hesitate to come into a Firestone Complete Auto Care near you. If your Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) light is on, you've hit something on the road, your tire is losing air, or maybe something just doesn't feel quite right, bring it in. One of our expert technicians will take a look and tell you if you need to repair or replace your tires.
Driving on a damaged tire can lead to additional (and more costly) rim damage and repairs, so it's best to have your tires examined at the first sign of trouble.
The solution might be as simple as needing one of our patch plugs if the tire puncture is addressed early on. In other cases, a leaking valve stem or valve core may need to be replaced with a new one or the TPMS sensor needs to be reprogrammed or replaced. Visit your nearest Firestone Complete Auto Care, and we'll take care of you and your vehicle tire repairs.
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If your tires still have life left in their tread and are not over 10 years old, Firestone Complete Auto Care maybe be able repair or patch & plug them to get you back on the road quickly. Keep in mind not all tire damage can be patched if the puncture is too big.
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Over time, the tread on your tires wears down, leading to compromised traction on the road and potentially dangerous driving conditions. Tires generally need to be replaced every 25,000 to 50,000 miles, depending on vehicle manufacturer recommendations and driving habits.
Tire Rotations & Balancing
When you have your tires rotated, you help increase the life of your tires by helping reduce uneven wear. Most vehicle manufacturers recommend a tire rotation about every 5,000 miles or at the manufacturer-recommended mileage. Tire balancing helps ensure weight is evenly distributed around your tires. It's necessary about every 5,000 miles or as recommended by your manufacturer. Balancing can lead to a smoother ride, less tire wear, and reduced strain on the drivetrain. When you think tire balancing, think safe, smooth, and efficient driving.
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It's best to have your alignment checked every 6,000 miles or twice a year. Even one misaligned wheel can cause the steering wheel to be off center and can lead to premature wear and tear on your vehicle over time. Keeping everything properly aligned ensures a smoother ride for you and a longer life for your tires.
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A flat or leaking tire can leave you stranded on the side of the road or lead to a situation where you lose control while driving. Take care of flat or leaking tires as early as possible to extend tire lifespan and ensure your tire doesn't leave you stranded.
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Flat tires rarely happen at ideal times. Let Firestone Complete Auto Care help you with these answers to frequently asked flat tire questions.
To ensure a safe drive that doesn’t damage your rims or create more expensive repairs, change your flat tire with your spare tire before coming into your local Firestone Complete Auto Care center for flat tire repair.
It’s tempting to replace just the tire that's damaged, but replacing one tire at a time can present challenges down the road since the one tire will have a different tread depth and thus different accelerating, braking, and cornering abilities than all of the others.
Few things are more inconvenient than a flat tire —except back-to-back flat tires. Learn the reasons why you keep getting flat tires and what you can do to help prevent flat tires from deflating your spirits!
If your vehicle hits a pothole in the road, you may experience steering and suspension system misalignment and/or damage, tire punctures, bent rims, and more. When your vehicle experiences a sudden jolt from a pothole run-in, timely inspection is highly recommended.
Pothole damage may not be obvious right away, but it can wreak havoc on your entire car if it’s not addressed quickly and fixed right the first time.
If you've had a recent run-in with a pothole, head to your local Firestone Complete Auto Care for a Complete Vehicle Inspection to check for any issues.
A tire plug is a quick fix for a tire that's leaking air from a nail or similar object that has punctured the tire. A tire plug fills the hole of the tire but is not reliable without a tire patch and not recommended to use alone. A patch is applied to the inside of the tire to further prevent an air leak and helps hold the plug in place. This allows a tire with ample useful life left in it to hold air reliably and keep you on the road for longer.
Run flat tires allow you to drive on a flat tire for a limited time with lesser risk than non-run flat tires. A Run Flat tire could be repaired if a nail or object is caught before tire damage occurs. However, if the tire is permanently damaged, it is required to replace a Run Flat tire with a new one.
The Tire Pressure Monitoring System light will illuminate if tire pressure is too low or part of the TPMS system has malfunctioned. Important TPMS warning light behavior:
Looking for the closest flat tire repair shop? Come to Firestone Complete Auto Care for a tire plug & patch or other tire repair service today!
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Regular tire rotations can help prevent uneven tread wear and help your tires last longer.
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How can I remove it? Tire fitting is a common procedure for changing or installing wheels, which concerns every car owner.
Removing tires may seem like a simple task at first glance, but any driver who has ever tried to disassemble a wheel knows that this work is not an easy one, and not everyone can do it. Many have entrusted their wheels to professionals, which greatly simplifies their lives.
The help of workers is needed almost every season, as it is necessary to change winter tires to summer tires and vice versa. But tire fitting is needed not only for regular replacement, but also for the emergency condition of the tire itself. The tire can become unusable during constant friction, or a puncture from both the inside and the cut from the side.
Experts strongly advise against doing the work yourself, and it's not about lost clients. All work should be done on special machines that allow you to accurately remove the tire from the rim, as well as calibrate the wheel. Calibrating the balance of the rim in the cathedral with the tire avoids serious damage. A poorly adjusted wheel can seriously damage the integrity of the suspension and other controls, leading to costly repairs.
In addition, a well-balanced wheel makes handling much easier, which ensures safety on the road.
If the choice fell on a car service that deals with tire fitting, the following questions may arise: what exactly is included in the tire fitting procedure? How is wheel balancing done? Is it possible to reliably and efficiently repair large tire damage? You can find answers to all these questions below.
At any car service, the removal and installation of wheels (4 wheels) is carried out, which in theory can be done at home. But unfortunately, not everything is so simple, otherwise tire fitting would not be in demand. The full scope of work requires high-quality equipment and experienced workers who will quickly and perform work of any complexity.
So, the full scope of work on regular replacement of tires includes:
All work is carried out using special expensive tools that can only be found at high-quality car services. With the help of such equipment, it is easy, and most importantly, without harm to other parts of the machine, to carry out the work of changing tires.
But any tire change is not complete without a technical wash. If the wheel is not thoroughly cleaned, the wheel rims can be seriously damaged during installation. A damaged disc, in the first place, can begin to rot, which is very dangerous on the road. Rotten discs can burst while driving and cause an accident. Therefore, it is extremely important to take care of the discs and keep them in good condition. In addition, special abrasive substances, in the form of foam, can restore the factory look to the discs, and significantly improve the appearance of the machine itself. Clean tires will not stain the trunk and surrounding things. It is much more pleasant to work with clean material, so technological washing is an important part of the tire fitting procedure, especially in the winter season.
The final stage of all work will be the installation of a new tire and adjustment of the balance of the entire wheel. We'll talk about balancing later. Accurate beading, especially of high-quality rubber, helps to save a lot of money. The service life of winter tires is about three years (slightly less than that of summer tires), but if the work is done carelessly, the service life can be significantly reduced. As a result, turning to a car service for help, you save your money.
Conventional wheel removal and balancing (4 wheels), inexpensive, but at the same time saves money on the repair of important vehicle components. Such balancing is carried out to eliminate the "eight" both in the horizontal and in the vertical plane. Thanks to this action, you can make driving easier, reduce tire wear while driving and prevent damage to the suspension or one of the transmission elements.
Normally, imbalance is easily corrected with special weights.
These balancing weights are installed on the inside of the wheel, thereby balancing the course on one side or another. But this is far from the best way to calibrate. At advanced auto repair shops, they use special machines that level the wheel rim.
After aligning and calibrating all wheels, they are installed on the machine, guiding the tread pattern in the desired direction. The wheel is mounted so that there is a minimum error. After installing all the wheels, everything is re-checked and balanced. All this will ensure the smooth running of the wheel, and driving safety.
Regular balancing is essential, especially after a recent self-dismantling. It is also necessary to constantly check the level of air pressure in the tires. The most reliable way is to use a stationary pressure gauge. The readings on all four wheels must be the same, otherwise the balance will be disturbed.
Buying a new tire is not cheap, so it makes sense to seek help from a car service.
Tire repair is included in a comprehensive tire fitting (4 wheels), so you don’t have to worry about where you can fix damaged tires.
Tire restoration procedures can be many. Here are the main effective procedures for repairing damage:
Usually vulcanization is both hot and cold, and is performed on serious damage, cuts or punctures. Cold vulcanization means gluing rubber with glue, without heat treatment. This procedure is quick and saves time on repairs.
Hot vulcanization means heat treatment. There are two types of hot vulcanization:
But vulcanization will only work if the tire reinforcement is intact.
Cord patches can repair almost any small puncture or cut. But this design will not last long. This repair method is temporary and is well suited on the road, in case of an unexpected puncture.
Flagella are another emergency repair option. Usually they are made of raw rubber, or impregnated fabric. Unlike patches, flagella dry out over time and begin to let in air. As a result, you need to contact the master in a car service.
All repairs should be carried out by professionals. So, you can save money and resources. You can find a quality car service using the Uremont.com service. To do this is quite simple. You need to leave a request for tire fitting and choose the right car service. Thus, you can easily repair your tires with our service.
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Nail, rebar or sharp stone - sometimes you can damage a tire almost from scratch. First of all, the scale of damage is important, and often rubber can still be repaired.
Most often, motorists turn to tire shops for repairs in the middle of autumn or spring - just in the season of replacing summer tires with winter tires and vice versa. In order not to stand in lines, it is worth knowing exactly when to go to the tire shop and when to go to the store.
The most common "injury" to rubber is a puncture, and it can most often be repaired. Professionals in the nearest service will do it much faster, and your hands will remain clean. But if the puncture caught you in a deserted place, and there is a pump and a tire repair kit with harnesses in the trunk, you can patch up the tire yourself. Most often, when repairing the front tires, the wheel can not even be removed, it is enough to turn the steering wheel in the right direction and find the puncture site.
First, the hole is cleaned with a helical awl, the repair harness is smeared with glue and tucked into the eye of the awl, after which it is inserted into the tire hole. With a sharp movement, the tool is removed, and the tourniquet remains inside and securely clogs the hole.
The tails are cut with a knife, but it is recommended to leave about 20 mm. After that, the tire can be inflated and the pressure checked.
Repair with tourniquets is not considered long-term, because after some time they dry out and begin to let air through. A more advanced puncture repair method is vulcanization. The hole is sealed with an elastic patch, and the funnel at the puncture site is filled with a special compound. A vulcanizer is put on top, which heats the patch and solders the excess.
Under service conditions, the puncture is also repaired with cord fungus. The puncture site is processed and drilled to roughen. Everything is smeared with glue, after which a fungus is introduced from the inside of the tire, its cap is rolled, and the excess legs are cut off from the outside.
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A puncture can also be repaired with sealant. Many car manufacturers with run flat tubeless tires put compressor repair kits in the car instead of a spare tire - a bottle of pressurized sealant.
The car is raised on a jack, after which the sealant is pumped into the damaged wheel through the nipple. Next, you need to spin the wheel and pump it up. After repair, the car should be driven a couple of hundred meters to check the tightness of the tire. If it has not recovered, the procedure is repeated.
It happens that a self-tapping screw or a nail closes the hole in the tire, remaining inside. Do not rush to pull it out - until the pressure drops, you can safely get to the service for vulcanization. Sometimes the wheel begins to blow off a few weeks after the self-tapping screw got into it. Therefore, it is better to check tire pressure periodically, and if the pressure sensor lights up, you should at least visually inspect the tire for a nail head.
A bump or bulge most often occurs on the side of a tire after hitting an obstacle or hitting a hole at speed. From the impact, the sidewall carcass threads are damaged, the tire ceases to hold the load and pressure, swelling appears.
Any small bump eventually turns into a larger one, and with such a defect, the wheel can burst at any time. This is a direct safety hazard because a sudden flat tire can cause loss of control and a road accident.
Some bulges can be repaired, but no patch will ever restore a tire to factory stiffness. The ideal option in this case is to replace the tire. If a hernia has appeared on the tread, then you can extend the life of the tire with the help of cord patches - ready-to-use patches with an adhesive layer. But if swelling is found on the sidewall, the likelihood of repair is minimal, the wheel is easier to change. Blisters on low profile tires are generally not repairable.
Only car service professionals can repair a side cut. Cord patches will be needed to repair the damage, but after some time the wheel will still have to be changed. This method will work only if the gap is not in the shoulder area of the tire, then no one will repair it.
In general, cuts or punctures, unlike punctures, are considered non-repairable, since the integrity of the frame is violated.
And breakdowns do occur on the go, when the tire abruptly loses pressure and has time to make only a few turns “on the rims” before it comes to a complete stop. In this situation, the cord breaks and the layers of the tire are destroyed. Even if it is possible to close the hole, it is not recommended to use such a weakened tire.
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Cracks, sidewall abrasions and unprofessional tire fitting can also lead to tire problems. Cracks can occur as a result of improper storage of tires. Their danger is that moisture begins to flow to the cord, and this already renders the frame unusable. Air can also escape through cracks. Cracks cannot be repaired and tires will not last long. A tire with cracks is deformed, blistered, and may even break while driving.
Rubbing against curbs or driving on uneven roadsides can damage the tire sidewall. When driving like this, it is worth inspecting the tires for damage regularly. If a slight wear is found, the wheels can be swapped, which will slightly extend their service life and allow you to delay the purchase of new ones.
