Comments by "flagmichael" (@flagmichael) on "Everything you NEED to know about Car Tires!" video.

  1. Lots of good stuff I never knew in this one! One issue that had confused me was about not plugging tires. I recently learned, partly the hard way, that the problem was not with plug failure but with not removing, repairing, and remounting the tire. Flat tires are generally run "low" on the road for a while before they are noticed unless the leak was very small. My wife recently had that experience; she wasn't sure how long the TPMS light had been on. She inflated it to get to the nearest town where she was able to take it to the chain store where we bought it. They found the inside was damaged - lots of rubber crumbles inside it - and they replaced the tire. We had road hazard coverage so the replacement was free. However, I never knew about the "slanted" puncture issue. It makes sense. Eric O at South Main auto has a video about why a tire should not be plugged - he shows the rubber debris in a tire that had been run low or flat: "Why Tire Plugging Can Be Deadly!" https://youtu.be/WxnkGiAOOhM?t=163
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