Silverline Tyre Repair Kit 7pce (380421)

Handy kit to have around.Despite warnings in the manual for off road use, the local country garage where I used to live has been repairing my car tyres using the plug system as is common in the USA, but I never realised how simple it could be to do yourself.I bought this just to repair a tyre that had a screw embedded in it - it was cheaper to buy this whole set than to take the tyre to a repairer. The kit contained everything I needed other than a tyre inflator, jack (and pliers to get the screw out).Over 1000 miles later with no issues and the kit has plenty of spare materials to fix more.UPDATE 3DEC2012Had the misfortune of a screw embedded in another tyre this morning on the way to work resulting in a flat. It took me only 20 minutes of my lunchbreak to repair in the car park at work. If the kit hadn't paid for itself the first time round it certainly has now.Now I just need to find out which part of my commute involves driving over screws!-----UPDATE 7OCT2013About 17000 miles later now and it won't be long before the tyres I repaired will need replacing due to normal tread wear - absolutely no issues with the repairs. Had no more punctures on the road but I have used it since to fix a tubeless wheelbarrow tyre.

Excellent, these have got me out of trouble with punctures three times in the past 2 years.I moved from run-flat tyres to normal tyres and since run-flats were on the car already, there was no spare.No problem - now I have this set in the boot in the spare wheel well.Comparing this to carrying a spare:Initial outlay: £10 VS £200 (if your car doesn't already have one)Size/space: 6" x 5" x 1" VS 21" round x 10"Weight: 200g VS 15000gConvenience: Not much in the difference, every time I fixed a puncture with this I left the wheel on the car - just jacked it up first.So you are also saving money in fuel consumption by carrying this around instead of a spare.The first of my fixes was good for the majority of the life of the tyre I was using - about 10,000 milesAll of my fixes were fine up until I had to replace the tyres due to the thread depth being too low.I drove mostly motorway miles also and never had an issue with plugging a tyre.

You can get the job done with this, but it's so much harder to do. Creating the initial hole was fine, but implementing the sticky plugs was a bit of a nightmare, here's why;1. The adhesives all stick to the packet and are hard to remove, once finally removed they leave some of the residue on the packaging, which is meant to be in the tire. I've seen other brands wrap the sticks so this doesn't happen.2. It took me almost 10m to fit the stick into the tool, they are far too large, I had to squish it with all my force to get it to fit. Again I've seen other brands are already flat and fit perfectly, and I ended up with black glue all over my hands.You get what you pay for, and if you have a lot of patience this does the same job as the expensive packs, but this is not what you want in an emergency roadside situation.On the plus side, I can confirm after 3 weeks the plug has worked brilliantly, was a pretty big hole too.

I bought this kit in 2013. Used it once in the first year on my rear scooter tyre. Although it says it's for off road use only, I kept that tyre on until the tread ran down about 1.5 thousand miles later and it was fine, maintaining tyre pressure as a tyre would normally. The kit has been sat mainly in the boot of my car since. I recently got a threaded bolt in my car tyre and so had to use the kit again. What really surprised me was that the plugs were still in good useable condition, I thought, 4 years later, they would have dried out but they were fine. Getting the bolt out took a good 5 to 10 minutes and then I just followed the instructions, the hole was plugged, the tyre pumped up and it was all back on the car.40 minutes start to finish . I've driven a few hundred miles since then, a week ago, and it's still fine, pressure and all. Very happy with it.

Costing me £10 in Oct 2013, I had this stored in the boot until one day in Aug 2017 it was needed due to a screw embedded in the rear tyre.Leaving the wheel and tyre on the car I rolled the car until the screw and hole were in the best position for access, facing the back of the vehicle.This allowed me to use my full force, which was needed and which taking off the wheel would not have allowed.I found it very quick and simple to do the repair and it is still fine a year later.I doubt that my local tyre place would have done a better job.There seem to be enough repair sticks in the kit to last several lifetimes.UPDATE Dec 2021: The repair has lasted well and now the tyre is reaching the end of its usable life due to normal wear (I do a low mileage).UPDATE Dec 2023: The tyre was replaced this year due to wear. The repair lasted without any issues.

Well does what it says repairs punctures! You find the hole, use the drill looking corkscrew implement and make the hole bigger...then get one of the these gunky sticky strips thread into the needle looking implement. I found you need to inflate the tyre up to do good job, if its dead flat you can still do it but the flexing of the flat rubber makes it harder to get good purchase to ram the bung in the hole, resistance of the tyre pressure helps so inflate to about 2/3s pressure... then push the strip plug into the hole, turn the handle a couple of times clockwise and pull out, I left the repair for 10 mins after inflating the tyre to full pressure, stanley knife cut off the excess and hey presto great repair all done in about 10 mins. 1 week later about 300miles still perfect. I wouldn't advise you do this then go racing, but for a road bike doing normal speeds the repair will be fine.