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Are Pirelli’s self-sealing tyres worth the extra $?

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  • #2
    Neilw
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    worded wrote: »
    Recently heard about these

    https://www.pirelli.com/tyres/en-gb/car/total-mobility

    How much extra are they?


  • #3
    ION08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    So the tyre creates a seal around the object that punctures it not allowing air to escape as long as the object stays in the tyre?

    I can imagine a lot of people would be driving around with a few nails in their tyres!


  • #4
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,390 ✭✭✭Cordell


    They claim it also seals the hole when you pull the nail.
    TBH I won't pay extra for these gimmiks. I'd rather have the extra cost of that sealant going in the tyre itself, or not at all.


  • #5
    ION08
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    Cordell wrote: »
    They claim it also seals the hole when you pull the nail.
    TBH I won't pay extra for these gimmiks. I'd rather have the extra cost of that sealant going in the tyre itself, or not at all.


    So how would you know you even had a nail in your tyre to begin with?


  • #6
    Cordell
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    That's the(ir) idea! You don't know and you don't care :)


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  • #7
    uberalles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭uberalles


    If the nail is removed it ideally auto seals if my understanding is correct


  • #8
    Toyotafanboi
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    The whole inside of the tyre is covered in the same "stuff" a puncture plug is made from and as said, they are designed that when the foreign object is pulled out, it will seal itself.

    The tyre pressure monitoring light should still come on when you get a puncture. The idea is that the tyre will still deflate with the foreign object in it, just much more slowly than a conventional tyre would, the new seal is only created when the item is pulled out.

    There's a few manufacturers offering them now.


  • #9
    Del2005
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    ION08 wrote: »
    So how would you know you even had a nail in your tyre to begin with?

    When you do your daily checks ;)


  • #10
    ION08
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    Del2005 wrote: »
    When you do your daily checks ;)

    Daily checks by whom? the mass amount of gob****es driving around with one bulb blown?


  • #11
    Del2005
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    ION08 wrote: »
    Daily checks by whom?
    The operator, who is ultimately always responsible for the vehicle they are driving.
    ION08 wrote: »
    the mass amount of gob****es driving around with one bulb blown?

    Just because others don't do the checks it doesn't mean that you not doing them is OK.


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  • #12
    ION08
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    Del2005 wrote: »
    The operator, who is ultimately always responsible for the vehicle they are driving.



    Just because others don't do the checks it doesn't mean that you not doing them is OK.

    Are you losing your marbles?

    Who said I dont do my checks and when did this become about me?

    My point was simple: the nail in the tyre will go unnoticed by the vast majority of the ignorant motoring public... in the same manner by which blown headlight bulbs go unnoticed.

    How do you know what checks I do and don’t do?


  • #13
    grogi
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    ION08 wrote: »
    Who said I dont do my checks and when did this become about me?

    Why a figure of speech is taken personally?! Chill...


  • #14
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    the type of driver who goes around on one headlight is not likely to spring the extra cash for these tyres.


  • #15
    VictorRomeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭VictorRomeo


    I bought a Passat in 2011 and they had ContiSport with ContiSeal' tyres fitted from factory. Never had to replace a tyre except for end of life with them installed. Buying ContiSeal variants from the usual online vendors was on average €5 or so more expensive than non ContiSeal. So I only ever replaced with ContiSeals. There were a couple of incidents where I had to pick a nail/screw out from a tyre as I'd gotten an alert from the TPMS. So I imagine the Contis are the same tech as the Pirellis - a sticky viscous rubber lines the inside of the tyre.

    Before the Passat, I was in a Volvo V50 and for whatever the reason, I went thru a lot of tyres with that car for whatever the reason. In a BM now with runflats.


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