[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by cellsafemode

centripetal force isn't going to remove it and rolling friction isn't going to budge it. Slamming on your brakes right on the spot where it is might do something, but if you're doing that, you're already in trouble and a tire losing pressure is only going to be an additional headache.

Most times, the nail/screw/whatever pokes its hole at the bottom of a tread groove. If you cut the plug material off as close to flush with the adjacent tread blocks as possible even max braking won't bother a carefully done plug repair. Maybe just put a few easy to moderate miles on it first to scuff/squish it all the way down flush. I just went through this a couple of weeks ago with a tire on one of my own cars (the short leg of an 1/8" Allen wrench had gone through the middle of the tread).


Norm