Puncture Repair in Sheffield | Mobile Puncture Repairs in Sheffield

We attended a customer's vehicle this week with not one but TWO nails in their tyres! Luckily for this particular customer, both were repairable punctures in tyres worth saving!

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What tyre punctures are repairable?

There are a few factors we look for in a puncture which enables us to repair it.

The hole caused by the offending object cannot be more the 6mm wide.
The puncture must have occurred in the central ¾ of the width of the tread.
Multiple repairs cannot be carried out within the same quarter of the tyre.

For more information on whether a puncture can be repaired – click here!

Another factor we keep in mind when determining whether a puncture can be repaired is the amount of tread left on the tyre and the age of the tyre itself. From the minute a tyre gets manufactured, it begins to age gradually. The typical "shelf life" of a tyre is 5/6 years, once a tyre gets to this age it begins to crack and perish.

If a tyre is around this age and has little life in it, it's not worth carrying out a repair on a tyre which will likely need replacing sooner rather than later anyway!

If the tyre tread is getting low and is around the recommended tread depth for changing – it's often advised that we replace the tyre rather than repair it.

For more information on how to check your tyres – click here!

Regardless of whether we think a puncture might be repairable - we always bring a potential replacement with us! This saves both us and the customer time and enables us to get you back on the road that day regardless of whether we can repair your puncture or not!

When booking a puncture repair online, our website will always prompt you to choose a tyre as a replacement if needed. Don't worry, if we can repair your puncture you won't even need to see this tyre! It'll just be a quick repair at your location and then payment afterwards via the card machine on our vans!