Tread Connection is your trusted mobile tire repair service when and where you need it. There is never a good time to need flat tire repair. It doesn’t matter if it happens in your driveway before your morning commute or if you discover it when leaving the office. A flat tire is always a hassle and an inconvenience. Thankfully, help is never far away with mobile tire repair from Tread Connection!
Tread Connection brings the tire shop to you. Our wide range of available tires means you’re sure to find the perfect set of tires to fit your budget. Learn how Tread Connection can bring quality, convenient flat tire repair right to your door, on your schedule.
As if having a flat tire wasn’t bad enough, finding flat tire repair often means spending hours in a crowded, dirty waiting room with bad coffee while you get it fixed. This is precious time from your day that could be spent working or with your family.
What’s more, health concerns have made sitting in a waiting room even worse. The idea of sitting in a cramped, enclosed space with a bunch of strangers has never been more uncomfortable. But what if there was another way? Now, you can have your tires changed and get flat repair at your home or office.
Mobile tire repair is more than convenient. It’s a safer, faster, and more secure way to take care of your tires on your schedule! Finding flat tire repair near you has never been easier. You can have your tire repaired or have new tires delivered to your door in three easy steps!
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It really is that easy! Our installers will bring your tires to you, and install them on your vehicle.
Tread Connection does much more than let you buy your tires online. Our team of TIA-certified tire technicians delivers tires to your home and installs your new tires or repairs your flat. We are also happy to meet you at your business or anywhere else you need us. Just make sure your vehicle is in a safe place like a parking lot to ensure our van has ample room to work.
We know money can be tight. If you just got new tires or haven’t been driving on your tires for very long, you may wonder if you can repair your tire instead of buying a new one. The TIA-certified tire experts at Tread Connection can help.
Our friendly team of tire professionals will let you know if your tire can still be saved. Your technician will remove the tire and inspect it both inside and out.
If your flat tire can be patched and will be safe to drive, then we will handle your flat tire repair for you at your home or office.
Don’t worry if you have a flat that cannot be repaired.
We have a wide range of tires for all kinds of makes and models of cars from the best and most trusted manufacturers. You can be sure you’ll find the right tire for your car at a value that works for you. Get in touch with Tread Connection, and let us take a look.
When you reach out to the tire experts at Tread Connection, our team will provide you with a comprehensive tire inspection and handle everything from repair to remounting. Our mobile tire repair services include the following:
Don’t waste another day in a waiting room. Find flat tire repair that works on your schedule. Contact the certified tire experts at Tread Connection to schedule your appointment today.
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Wrench can perform all tire repair services in the field. Our tire specialists inspect, balance, mount, install, rotate, and repair flat tires anywhere you can safely park. We can source all major brands and even hard to find specialty tires. Our technicians work on all vehicle makes and models from passenger cars to heavy duty trucks.
Wrench provides the best experience in auto services focusing on excellent customer service, quality repairs, transparent pricing and convenient scheduling through our online booking system. Unlike the local shop or dealership, we come to YOU. Our expert team of certified technicians are available to service your vehicle and fix your tires 7 days a week in most cities with no upcharges or additional costs for weekend work.
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Experienced drivers are not surprised by such a trifle as a puncture, but for the first time beginners usually get confused in the sequence of actions, forget about important details and do not know what to do with a punctured wheel even in a tire shop - especially if they start offering choose from several options or intimidate with expensive repairs.
Let's set up an operation algorithm when a flat tire is detected and figure out what to do right away and what to choose later.
What to do when you find a puncture
Having found a flat tire, first of all you need to stop in a safe place, turn on the emergency alarm, assess visibility and, if necessary, set an emergency stop sign: according to traffic rules, it is installed at least 15 meters from the car in built-up area and at least 30 meters outside the built-up area. When choosing where to stop, consider the space to the side of the vehicle to handle a flat tire. You should not stop right on the road and in places where stopping and parking are prohibited: even if a punctured wheel belongs to the conditions of a forced stop, it is quite possible to drive several tens of meters on it to choose a safe and convenient parking place. At night or in conditions of limited visibility (for example, in fog or rain), it is imperative to wear a vest with retroreflective elements - this is required by clause 2.
3.4 of the SDA and common sense.
Now you can start working on the wheel. We will sequentially consider several options for action, and then move on to ways to repair a damaged tire.
The most obvious solution to a flat tire is to replace it. If you have a spare tire that you are sure is in good condition, the best option would be to install it and visit a tire shop to repair a punctured tire - such repairs will be more reliable and of high quality than doing it yourself.
If you don't have a suitable spare tire, but you do have a pump or compressor, you can assess the damage to the tire and try to pump it up again to get to the tire shop. It is better to start searching for an air leak with a valve (aka “nipple” or “nipple”): often a faulty spool becomes the cause of a flat tire. It is easy to check it: unscrew the protective cap (if there is one), pour water on it (or slobber it, as in childhood): air bubbles will leak. In this case, you can try to replace the spool valve by unscrewing it and screwing in a new one, but if there is no new valve, as well as a store nearby, you can try just unscrewing and screwing it back in.
Regardless of whether it helped or not, you need to visit a tire shop to replace the entire spool or valve.
If the valve is tight and the tire is flat, it is most likely a puncture. The easiest way to find a puncture that is free of foreign objects is to pour water on the tire while looking at the surface: the damage will reveal itself as air bubbles. However, often the cause of the puncture can be found along with it: a self-tapping screw, nail or other arbitrary object sticking out of the wheel will clearly indicate the place of depressurization. In this case, you do not need to immediately remove the foreign object from the tire: it partially seals the hole, and if the pressure loss is slow, you can try to pump up the wheel and drive to the tire shop.
The same goes for wheels that are leaking from the rim or from a faulty valve. Usually, in this case, the air is bled slowly, and you can pump up the wheel and have time to get to the place of repair. By the way, rim leakage can occur due to disk deformation upon impact - for example, when hitting a pit with sharp edges.
Such situations are fraught with damage to both the disk and the sidewall of the tire, in which case the disk will need to be corrected, and the tire repaired or even replaced. To avoid rim leaks, you need to inspect the rims every time you change tires. The loss of tightness occurs either due to corrosion or due to disc deformation, and not only steel, but also light alloy wheels can corrode. So if you see paint blistering or rust on the rim, the tires need to be put on rim sealant: when changing tires, this will be cheaper than the subsequent removal and re-tire to fix a leak on the rim.
If you find a puncture, but there are no foreign objects in it, and you do not have a spare wheel and tire repair kits, there is another popular method of temporary "repair". You can screw a self-tapping screw into the hole found - if, of course, you have one. In extreme cases, you can look for a self-tapping screw in the cabin by unscrewing it from some interior detail. This method cannot be called reliable: it is unlikely to ensure complete tightness of the wheel, but at least it can help you get to the nearest tire shop.
And a couple more useful remarks. If the wheel is completely flat, then it is easier to inflate it without a spool: the latter must be unscrewed, then the tire must be inflated and quickly screwed back in. The fact is that the spool itself, when inflated, resists the compressor, and in the event of a loose fit of a flat tire to the disk, the power of a simple magazine compressor may not be enough, and the absence of a spool helps to increase air flow and facilitate the operation of the compressor. If this does not help, you can jack up the car by hanging a flat tire: this will improve the fit of the tire to the disk, and the chances of inflating the tire will increase.
On-Site Repair Methods
Now let's look at options for repairing a tire yourself using special materials that you should carry with you or, if a puncture caught you in the city, buy it at the nearest auto shop.
1. The most common, cheapest and easiest way to do it yourself is to install a raw rubber band.
The harnesses are sold complete with an abrasive awl to expand the hole in the tire and improve the contact of the repair harness with its edges, as well as a needle for installing the harness and an adhesive to fix it and at the same time seal the puncture. When choosing a repair kit in a store, you should pay attention to the following nuances:
Install the harness in the following order. First, the found hole is expanded with an abrasive awl - you need to insert and remove it several times into the puncture site. Then the tourniquet is inserted into the eye of the needle, and glue is applied to it. After that, the needle with the tourniquet must be inserted into the hole in the tire and pulled out sharply - so that the tourniquet remains in the hole, and the needle comes out without it.
If everything worked out, it remains only to cut the end of the harness flush with the surface of the tire and pump up the wheel.
The advantages of repairing with a harness are quite decent reliability, simplicity and low cost. On a well-repaired tire, you can drive for a long time, and if the repair site starts to poison, you can either replace the harness or have the tire repaired in a quality service. Among the minuses is the possibility of damaging the cord during installation, as well as lower reliability compared to “full-fledged” repair methods in a tire shop. Strictly speaking, a tourniquet is still a temporary repair, so if it is possible to pump up a wheel and get to a tire fitting, then it is better not to enlarge the hole in the tire and get to the experts.
2. The second repair option is aerosol liquid sealants sold in cans. To repair a punctured tire with sealant, you need to remove the foreign object from the puncture site, then pour the sealant into the wheel through the valve, twist it to distribute the composition inside the tire, pump up the wheel and drive several kilometers at low speed for the final uniform distribution of the sealant.
Among the advantages of this repair is the simplicity and less labor intensity compared to installing a harness. However, there are also disadvantages: the larger the hole, the higher the chance that the sealant will not be able to eliminate it, and such a repair can affect the wheel balance. Compared to a tourniquet, it can be considered even less reliable and preferable, but simpler.
Repair options at a tire shop
If you put on a spare tire and brought the wheel to a tire shop, you may also be offered several repair options. Consider the most popular with an indication of the advantages and disadvantages.
1. The first repair method is the same harness installation as described above. As we remember, the tourniquet refers to a temporary repair, so among tire specialists this method is considered bad form, but many workshops do not exclude it from the list of services. All the advantages and disadvantages are the same here: such a repair will be the fastest, simplest and cheapest, but less reliable than other methods.
It is worth choosing it in cases where the price and / or speed of the procedure is more important to you than anything else. If quality is a priority, then it is better to fork out for the options listed below.
2. The second option for repairing a puncture is to install a patch on the inside of the tire, the so-called cold vulcanization. In this case, the tire is removed from the disk, the surface around the puncture is treated with an abrasive, and the damage is sealed with a special patch. This is a more preferred repair method than a tourniquet: it is more reliable and durable, especially in the case of side punctures, when not the thick tread part of the tire is damaged, but the thinner sidewall. Among the minuses, only a higher cost can be noted: in addition to the actual tire repair, you will have to pay for the removal and installation of the wheel (or do it yourself), tire fitting and balancing.
3. The third option is a "complex" of the first and second: installation of the so-called repair "fungus".
The “hat” of the fungus is a patch, and the “leg” is threaded from the inside of the tire to the outside. After gluing the patch, the excess part of the leg is cut off, as in the case of the tourniquet. Thus, not only the inner surface of the tire is closed, but also the hole itself. The advantages and disadvantages of this repair method are generally the same as those of a patch.
4. An extreme, “emergency” measure when repairing a punctured wheel is to install a camera in it. Typically, this method is used for tires that are no longer worth repairing, or “for reliability” after repairing a complex puncture. It should be understood that almost all modern tires are tubeless, that is, they are not designed to install a camera, so it’s not worth driving a wheel repaired in this way for a long time. Installing a tube is a temporary solution for riding until a new tire is purchased, and sometimes such wheels are left as spares. So this repair method can be kept in mind as a backup.
Finally
We have deliberately left out of this text such methods as combined repair of tires with a tourniquet and a patch and hot vulcanization. The first is used quite rarely and for specific damage, and it is enough just to know about its existence. Well, the second is used to repair serious side cuts, and it is not only rare, but also very expensive. The cut site in this case is prepared, filled with raw rubber and processed with a hot press for vulcanization. Equipment for this procedure is not available in every tire shop, and the cost of repair can be about half the cost of a new tire.
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You are driving to your destination with a load, or you are driving home and puncture a tire. Naturally, you stop and think - what to do with the puncture. The tire must be dismantled and delivered to a tire repair shop (a truck tire shop on Dmitrovskoye Shosse) to check, rubber does not always need to be replaced. Depending on where the puncture is located, as well as the nature and extent of the damage, the tire may well get by with only a small repair.
A tire can be repaired if it is punctured in the area where a puncture can be repaired: the sidewall and shoulder of the tire must not be repaired and the puncture does not exceed 1 cm in diameter. Repair areas do not overlap or damage is not directly opposite each other.
Once it is determined that the tire is repairable, trim the puncture area of the damaged casing to clean and stabilize the area. From the inside out, a rubber rod is pulled through the puncture site, covering the inside of the tire. The puncture site is polished from the inside, then a special vulcanizing glue is applied. Then, a patch is applied to the inner pad (over the puncture area), causing a chemical reaction.
Finally, the tire is placed back on the rim, inflated to the correct tire pressure, and the repair checked for leaks. All procedures take 60-90 minutes, in many services cashless payments are available today.
If the tire is damaged in any way outside the “repair area” of the puncture, it cannot be repaired safely. Professional repair of a truck tire (Dolgoprudny city) is limited to the middle or tread area of the tire - this is the area from the center of the tread to the area approximately at a distance of 3 to 5 centimeters from each shoulder (towards the sidewall).
For most tires, the puncture repair area can also be identified by the first major groove on both shoulders.
If there is a visible bulge on the sidewall of the tire, it is a bulge, most likely the tire has been damaged as a result of hitting a curb, pothole, or other surface imperfection. The resulting bulge or "bubble" on the sidewall is beyond repair and unfortunately the tire must be retired from service.
Specific repair limits should be based on the tire manufacturer's repair recommendations or policy or the type of tire service (eg CAO tire service).
The only way to properly repair a tire is to remove it from the rim so it can be inspected from the inside, remove the damaged material, fill the voids with rubber, and seal the inner lining with a repair tool.
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