Tire Slime????

[Chamkila]

hi guys is it any good?

Can it freeze? i was thinking during the winter since its water based or something that particles can freeze and throw the tire off balance.

Can it damage the tire in any way?

I am eagerly waiting for your response.



Once again thanks guys for your help

 

[krusty the clown]

i tried it in the lawn mower once...........didn't do a thing.

 

[Shocker]

I wonder if it needs a bit of heat to do the job. Maybe thats why you had no success with your lawn mower tire.

I have used it in dirt bike tires and it works there. You can forget having a good relationship with your tire shop when they have to deal with it after the fact.

 

[kartracer55]

I wonder if it needs a bit of heat to do the job. Maybe thats why you had no success with your lawn mower tire.

I have used it in dirt bike tires and it works there. You can forget having a good relationship with your tire shop when they have to deal with it after the fact.

+1

At least tell them about it before hand. I can assure you they will be pissed if they find out the hard way.

Besides, that stuff is a bandaid. Why not just fix it the right way?

 

[Tscott]

Not sure about the freezing thing, but I did learn that this kind of stuff is not good for the pressure sensors in the newer cars. I put some fix a flat in one of the wife’s tires, and ever since then I get an error signal from one of the tires. Not he end of the world, and the sensor still functions when pressure is low, but kind of a PIA when the light flashes every 10 min.

Tom

 

[Fueler]

The stuff can work but if a proper fix can be made do it or suffer the wrath of your tire guy.
Where it worked for me. Neighbor had a 4 wheel lawnmower with a tire that went down in the fall and didn't get discovered until spring. It was primarily old and dry rotted. No actual punctures. So I figure what the heck. Put some in, aired it up and sent him on his way. It survived a day. THEN,.. I read the instructions. The tire needs to spin longer than he ran the mower. So... I had him pull the tire. Added a little plus air and mounted it in my lathe. Let it spin on slow speed for a couple of hours. It's still up a year later. go figure.

 

[flamewerks]

I haven't heard about the stuff freezing, and up here the temps go down to -45C. But yes, it is a pain to have to wash it out before it gets fixed, but that's not the biggest worry. Like stated above you can't use it with TPMS sensors, as they will get damaged. Another common problem that seems to occur is that the inner liner of the tire gets softened up a bit, so when you do take it to the shop to get it fixed, the guy doing the work won't guarantee that the tire will be salvageable. That's because the buffing stone often chews up the softened liner almost instantly, so you expose the cords inside and you can throw the tire away.

If it is just for an off-highway tire, I'd throw it in and just put a tube in it later on unless you can get it done right the first time. Usually the stuff does seem to last a long time.

 

[gofastman]

It is absolutly awfull!!!
Its a mess for the repair guy to clean up when you bring it in because it didnt fix the tire, too
stay far, far away from any of thoes tire-repair-in-a-can products.

 

[IDASHO]

Tire monkeys LOVE that stuff

 

[krooser]

I've used it many times. I keep a bottle near my tire repair equipment in case I have a slow leak at the rim or in an old tire I use for movingaround project cars... works fine.

I don't own anything new enough to have any fancy tire pressure sensors.

 

[WVU Tuba Dale]

Tire Slime isn't so bad to deal with at the shop because its gooey, its that damn liquid Fix-A-Flat that pisses me off.

 

[coppermouse]

I love the stuff. We have a lot of locust trees with big thorns. I fill all my off road tires as a preventative. Put a gallon in 4 33 super swampers.

 

[Deltarat]

My son swears by it for his 4 wheeler tires that are always getting thorns and such.

 

[kartracer55]

Not sure about slime, but I know for a while the fix-a-flat type aerosol propellants they were using were flammable and it was possible for tires to explode. Anybody know about slime? I have never used it...

 

[SteveU]

Not sure about slime, but I know for a while the fix-a-flat type aerosol propellants they were using were flammable and it was possible for tires to explode. Anybody know about slime? I have never used it...

I don't think you can get slime to burn & what I've always seen it in is plastic squeeze bottles so there is no aerosols to deal with. I use it in my mower tires, when my barn collapsed in 2000 some of the boards were left in the yard until summer & I apparently got too close to one with a nail sticking up which caused a slow leak. Put slime in it & it has held up fine. Don't know how well it works in something that goes fast enough tire balance becomes an issue though.

 

[nissan_crawler]

fix-a-flat ***** and never works

I've never had slime fail.

We automatically filled all 4 wheeler, garden tractor, lawn mower, wheel barrow, hand truck tires, etc. They went from losing air all the time, to staying up for a year.

A friend put it in a motorcycle tire that was brand new and got two holes, ran it until it was bald.

I've put it in trailer tires after pulling a handful of nails out after a dump run.

It works well for what it is. I wouldn't put it in a tire I wanted patched later, though.

 

[ghlkal]

Not sure about slime, but I know for a while the fix-a-flat type aerosol propellants they were using were flammable and it was possible for tires to explode. Anybody know about slime? I have never used it...

My tire shop says that it is flammable ... I don't know. Maybe they are just lumping all "fix a flat" products together and trying to avoid them all.

As others have stated, I've used it for various smaller tires (lawn and garden equipment) and it works fine there.