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Here is some info from the PCA web-site:
A tire expert will need to look at it to be able to tell you if they have been successful fixing one like it before, and if so how. If you do have a tire shop around town that can do that, make sure they have done Z rated, low profile 18" tires before. Otherwise just replace it. If the other rear is low for tread depth, you might as well replace the pair.
I don't know if you use the car on the track, but if you do, I would not run a repaired tire there. Repaired tires tend to fail (deflate) at high speeds because of the centrifugal force that causes the tire to grow at speed. This tears the patch or releases the plug, depending what they did to fix it.
Joel Reiser - PCA WebSite - 5/7/2003
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