Anyone wash their car today? ?

[siteguru]

I've never used a plug - I've always used the tar string type repair. And I've repaired a tyre at the outer limit of the tread before.

 

[Tuareg]

I use the screw in plugs, used in one of my rear tyres. Brilliant idea, much better, quicker and easier that the strings and t-handle repair kits. Used the screw in plugs also in my motorbikes and even my escooter. Lots for sale on aliexpress

 

[T1 Terry]

Knowing no better, and being safety-minded, I've always replaced tyres when told it's too close to the edge.

So, officially, a tyre can be repaired anywhere on the tread area?

Have you seen those screw-in plugs? Are they any good?

The plugs with the mushroom head work great, the screw in ones would work ok for a nail, bit a non round hole .... got my doubts, but maybe a line of them along a cut type puncture might work ....

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

I've used the mushroom headed plugs to repair a torn/cut sidewall on a motorbike tyre, then a big vulcanised stick on patch over the tops on them, inside the tyre wall, then put a tube in it and rode a further 800 km home, it was a s/h tyre from a motorcycle shop, they had none that would fit.
The ride was ok ... all be it, at a slightly reduced speed, but still all the camping gear and the wife on the back ..... the road was so hot between Wilcannia and Cobar, the rubber was coming off in balls under the rear mudguard on the 750 Norton Commando .... and this was back in the 1978 ..... I doubt I'd care to try it these days if it is as hot there as it is here at the moment.

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

It would certainly help to clean the window rubbers. They seem to attract green growth very quickly. I try to clean them with my collection of boars hair brushes (Oooh, get you!), but they are not very effective. Great round badges and stuff, but not so much with the window rubbers.

I find an old toothbrush works well for the window rubber.

 

[T1 Terry]

Well, yet another day and I resisted the urge to wash the car, the boiling water might have damaged something .... like me attempting to stand out there .... the few seconds the car would have remained wet probably wouldn't have helped make it much cleaner anyway ....

Strangely enough, we don't have a problem with anything growing on the rubber seals, or moss growing anywhere for that matter .....

T1 Terry

 

[pjmmk]

I cleaned mine a week ago, within a day it was all grimy again - white paint really shows the dirt! Got some Polar Seal on it which is good, I suppose, but as for actually keeping the car clean, it's a wasted effort at this time of the year.

 

[MG Clive]

If only it was this easy.