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Originally Posted by jaykay
Both my rears have had a nail stuck in them....lots if construction around TO. The punctures were in the middle of the tread away from the side wall.
They were patched from the inside by a shop that sees a lot of race and track cars. It was non issue for them. They told me that month they had pulled enough nails to build a barn.
Since then I have run the car on a circuit that is tight and very hard on tires... They were melting! I have run them at a high speed track as well with no problems. I know of other that have plugged track tires as well.
There are guys on here that are dead against it for the track
A Porsche dealer will not plug tires
I would look for a competent race prep shop and have them take a look
Hopeful this helps
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I had the same thing happen a couple of days before the last DE. New tires (less the 1000 miles). Picked up a screw in the right rear tire. There was no time to replace tire since Tire Rack would have taken four or five days to get them to the shop, no one in town had a replacement tire, and the DE was the next day. This particular shop is owned by a long time SCCA racer. He had no issue at all with plugging the tire, from the inside and sending me out to the track. He stated that he had plugged hundreds of track and street tires with no issues. I did three days on the track and have taken at least one long (3000 mile) trip with these with no issues at all. (And yes, mine were also melting around the edges at the DE) I think if the plug is done from the inside and done correctly there shouldn't be any problems. Doing it correctly is the key though. I'm sure there will be differing opinions, and the dealers certainly won't do it, but in my experience a plug done from the inside is just fine. That is if the hole is far enough away from the sidewall!
Bob
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