Small Cut Puncture Repair in Bury St Edmunds | Hometyre Mobile Puncture Repair Service

With the UK rapidly expanding and continually building new houses, finding nails and screws in your tyres has never been more common. This customer called us in the morning and booked for an afternoon slot as they were working from home. To be safe and ensure that the customer could be back on the road for the same day, we took the tyre size and ordered a brand of the customer's choosing.

When looking at a puncture repair, there is a criteria to go through before we can proceed with the repair;

- The puncture has occurred within the repairable zone as shown and described above

- The puncture has a diameter or length of no more than 6mm

- There is no secondary damage including (but not exclusive to): sidewall deterioration caused during under-inflated use, any splits or cuts to the inner liner caused by the puncturing object or bulging to either of the sidewalls.

But you can find more about that here!

To identify where the puncture occurred, firstly we inflate the tyre to the correct working pressure then listen for hissing and can narrow down the search from there. If nothing is immediately obvious, we can spray down the tyre with a solution of soapy water so when the solution hits the releasing air, it creates large bubbles. With issue identified, we can start to think about what's happened, a nail, small cut or something deeper for example. As these questions go through our head, we deflate the tyre, remove the valve core and break the bead in the back of the van. With the tyre free, the small cut on the inside of the tyre was identified and from here, we could start the repair process.

Using a pumice stone, the area around the puncture was ground back to expose the bare rubber. The offending hole was also drilled out to a 6mm diameter to fit the plug and to roughen up the surface to create good adhesion. Rubber cement was then applied to said area and the plug then left to become tacky. The cement is also applied to the puncture repair plug to ensure a good seal on both the base and in the puncture itself. After the plug is pulled through the hole, the remaining rubber sticking out of the top of the tyre is trimmed to be flush. Finally, after leaving the cement to dry, the tyre is re-inflated, balanced on our mobile balancing machine and left for five minutes to ensure the puncture repair had been successful.

We've worked on a range of vehicles from Minis to Maseratis and Ford Transits to Mercedes Sprinters. So, if you've got a puncture in your car, give us a call on 0333 444 5454 or hop online and book in here!