Tires going flat left and right, can they be repaired

[tauteur]

This is the third tire in 6 months that's gone flat. They are cracking. Can a crack like this be repaired with fix a flat? I'm up in the Tehachapi mountains and we do hit some rocks now and then but damn this is supposed to be a war machine.

 

[Coug]

fix a flat is a temporary repair.

I've had good luck with garden tractor tires using tire slime (50 year old tires with lots of cracking)

Once they start cracking the sidewalls though, they shouldn't be run on road. Too much risk/liability.

 

[Maxjeep1]

You are 100 miles of intown driving from having catastrophic failure… that’s exactly how mine started out. I will post a pic of what yours will look like

 

[Milcommoguy]

This is the third tire in 6 months that's gone flat. They are cracking. Can a crack like this be repaired with fix a flat? I'm up in the Tehachapi mountains and we do hit some rocks now and then but damn this is supposed to be a war machine.
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Got to ask... What's the date code?

Old truck? Old tires? Good old times, CAMO

 

[Retiredwarhorses]

The tires are probably 10yrs or older and have been sitting in the Desert….

 

[TOBASH]

You can’t fix old. You can only replace. The rubber itself irreversibly decays.

 

[papakb]

The sidewalls on these tires is really soft and the tires coming out of NTC there at Fort Irwin are notorious for desert thorn punctures. The tires look great and have plenty of tread left on them but unless the puncture is fixed correctly they'll continue to leak. The other issue is how long have they sat in the Mojave heat baking the flexibility out of them before you got them? Once they've aged enough those thorn holes will start to split and at that point the only good repair is replacement. While their use in the desert isnt't that critical because of the low speeds involved, do you want to bet your life on them on the freeway?

Hope to see you at Plymouth.

 

[mgFray]

Trusting old tires is not worth your or other drivers safety. You REALLY need to replace them with new tires.

The original style Goodyear Wrangler MT are available again, just have to special order them through a tire store with a goodyear commercial account.

 

[TOBASH]

Someone went out of control two years ago when they blew an old bald spare tire and crossed the double line and killed an entire college golf team as well as himself and his son.

Throw bad tires away.