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Originally Posted by Copperhead
The thing with run flats is you can repair them as long as you didn't drive on it with extremely low psi. They only lose their structural integrity when rode on while "flat". But you will have to do the repair because it will be almost impossible to find a shop that will patch or plug it on your word you didn't drive on it flat. They don't want any liability associated with it.
That was the same issue with me. I didn't drive on it lower than 25 psi. No one would patch it. So after I replaced them all I patched it myself and now I have a full set as spares. That will come in handy if I don't have the money for a new set when the time comes.
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I drove it maybe 50 feet into the shop to give it a quick vacuum, I always check the tire pressure everytime I start it. It did show a little low, 29 instead of the usual 35-38, maybe 5 minutes later is when I got a text telling me I had a flat. We used a good quality, professional grade plug, not what you can get from Walmart. Would have done the patch/plug combo, but our tire machine is older and I didn't want to f-up my rim and no place we called would do it that day, it was almost 6. But I NEEDED my daily beat, so we plugged and went. Since we own a body shop, we know most of the tire guys around so they took our word for it that it hadn't been driven on more than a minute, and they would have done it, not sure if they would for a regular, off the street customer.
In the future we might consider going with conventional tires, but for now, I love the way the runflats handle.