Strange puncture repair procedure

Andrew_C

Got a puncture repair today in Fast Fit Santry. SAw flames and asked the guy what happened. He said putting a light to the wet adhesive cured it more quickly. Ever heard of THAT bebore?

Esel

Was it just a flash of flame or a continuous flame? The second one would worry me slightly...

I have seen the youtube video of the guy reseating a truck tyre on the rim by filling it with gas and then flicking a Bic. :eek: :0

Andrew_C

THanks for replying Esel. No it burned for probably 6-10 seconds, then just went out (like all fuel used up). I can imagine stuff evaporating from the adhesive catching fire when a flame is introduced, but wonder if it could potentially have a negative effect on the quality of the repair. (or put another way, could it cause a catastrophic failure of the repair on the motorway!!).
The guy was very nonchalant about it, kind of "sure everybody knows about that".
Cheers
Andrew C.

visual

Should have paid him with money covered in petrol and set it alight.

Should be some sort of intelligence test before they are let lose on the public.

Ive had too many bad experiences with tyre fitters from not wanting to balance wheels to stripping lug nuts and over tighten them.

Or worse ignoring jacking points and just sliding a jack under oil sump

Andrew_C

Hahaha, yep, should have thought of that!
To be fair, He seemed to take care to replace the tyre exactly back to where it was on the rim - presumably to keep the balance.
Maybe the fire isn't just witch-doctoring....
I might email their HQ and see what they have to say about it...

visual

Andrew_C wrote: »

Hahaha, yep, should have thought of that!
To be fair, He seemed to take care to replace the tyre exactly back to where it was on the rim - presumably to keep the balance.
Maybe the fire isn't just witch-doctoring....
I might email their HQ and see what they have to say about it...

Thats also a very lazy way to balance a tire
Better to find another place who does it right.

The glue sets in minutes anyway.

I was impressed with one place had a big screw through tyre. Tyre was checked over patch fitted to tyre. As the glue set he removed old balacing weights. Refitted and balanced tyre on rim then refitted to my jeep all for 12 euro.


There is a local place near me who refuse to balance tyres. Claiming either refitting to rim in same place is good enough and rear tyres or spare wheel don't need to be balance.

They are also a little dearer at 15 euro. But their cowboy attitude is off putting.

ardle1

Andrew_C wrote: »

Got a puncture repair today in Fast Fit Santry. SAw flames and asked the guy what happened. He said putting a light to the wet adhesive cured it more quickly. Ever heard of THAT bebore?

Any chance the guy was either Polish,Latvian or Lithuanian?
If any of the above don't worry them boys are magicians and the tyre will probably last forever :cool:

Wheelnut

The first time I saw the rubber glue being set on fire was in the 1960s. That was my father fixing punctures in his bicycle tyres. In more recent times it seems to be the foreign guys who use this technique. There's nothing wrong with it afaik, it's just the fumes that burn. It will probably turn out to be a better job because those old timers had a few tricks up their sleeve.

I would also be happy with a place that marked a tyre and put it back in the same place to preserve the balance. In fact I sometimes get a bit annoyed with places that slap the tyre back on and then charge extra to rebalance it.

challengemaster

visual wrote: »

There is a local place near me who refuse to balance tyres. Claiming either refitting to rim in same place is good enough and rear tyres or spare wheel don't need to be balance.

Jesus, it'd make you wonder what other corners they cut

visual

challengemaster wrote: »

Jesus, it'd make you wonder what other corners they cut

I no longer use them as I was a little annoyed at their sloppy practices
I didn't begrudge the small extra charge as they are local and convenient but I expected them to follow best practices.

Andrew_C

Thanks Everyone for all the comments. I'll probably not use them again, but at least there's been a suggestion that this 'procedure' is not unknown, so I'm not panicking. I'm going to 'Unfollow' this now.
Andrew C.

DIESEL TOM

ardle1 wrote: »

Any chance the guy was either Polish,Latvian or Lithuanian?
If any of the above don't worry them boys are magicians and the tyre will probably last forever :cool:

so if it was non irish lad it ok and if it was irish lad it wrong ?

biko

What he is saying is that sometimes they do things differently over there, and it's a good thing.

ardle1

DIESEL TOM wrote: »

so if it was non irish lad it ok and if it was irish lad it wrong ?

eh huh mmmmm huh well I I eh huh

biko wrote: »

What he is saying is that sometimes they do things differently over there, and it's a good thing.

Exactly

visual

Encouraging setting alight to glue vapours would make one wonder if sniffing was also part of this part trick.

the insurance add No Nonsense springs to mind. :pac:

Supergurrier

Common practise.

Im guessing it was plugged ?

Andrew_C

I'm unsure SG of what he did after the inferno, but I thought he was putting a patch on the inside. I wondered at the time if said patch had a stalk on it that would be inserted into the hole, sort of like a mushroom. the patch was big, about the size of the bottom of a mug.
Bear in mind, I was watching all this from the street about 30 feet away..