Are Blackjack Car Plugs Designed For A Temporary Or Permanent Repair

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Since the no trim levels of the Prime have a spare tire, I'1000 thinking through the utility of the tire repair kit. Does anyone have experience using information technology?
I've plug repaired iii tires since getting our 2010. Ane with our OEM tires, ane with the snow tires, and ane on another car. I decided non to cheap out, wanted a solid kit with a proper case, got the kt-330 or kt-340:
Coach Repair Kits - BlackJack Tire Repair

(Not 100% sure which, they look very similar. Mine'due south in the underfloor tray, lazy to dig it out.)

I've always washed the repair with the cycle off the motorcar. I would retrieve even without a temp spare that's the way to go: chock the diagonally contrary tire, raise the flat corner with scissor jack, remove the flat tire for repair. Only finding the puncture is much easier, and so to button the tools in: much easier while straddling the tire, with all your weight.

There'southward two sizes of plugs with the kit. One our punctures was a pocket-sized finishing blast; I opted for the smaller diameter plugs with that one.

All the repairs have held upwardly. I appreciate it's not the same quality as a repair with the added gasket on the inside. My problem with the first flat was the repair shop said the puncture was too close to tread edge, refused to repair it. The second puncture on snowfall tires was like location.
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I accept ordered Prius w/o spare tire and wondering what is the full cost to ready a apartment tire with Toyota repair kit.
one. The hermetic canister can be used one time merely and a new canister must be purchased imitatively. Anyone knows the toll?
two. The tire must be brought to service for final fixing and it is going to be more expensive then regular i because injected hermetic must exist removed from within the tire.
3. Ordinary tire place most likely will not be able to do the job due to Toyota proprietary components and premium payment is expected.
Should anyone has experience with this delight share your feelings and expenses.
I'm guessing the labour cost of cleaning the tire would push people to just replace. And if the tires are one-half worn, mayhap you're tipped to replacing them all? All in all more than tires going needlessly into the recycle stream. And does the TPMS sensor survive?

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Tire patch is the way to go. Like Mendel, I take a BlackJack kit. Expensive but it'due south what professionals use. You lot too need a pump -- they sell little 12V cigarette lighter pumps -- pliers for removing the nail, and I keep a pair of latex gloves to go along my easily clean.
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If the tire is repairable it can be pumped up long enough to get to a tire dealer. Apply the inflator and allow the experts repair it. Information technology y'all try to plug the tire yourself and neglect you'll most likely get out the tire in an unrepairable state.
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Based on this thread and the constant pinging of NO SPARE, I but purchased a 12 volt inflator and a tire repair kit from Amazon. Both are "Slime" branded items. Promise that they get here before I get that flat!

Fortunately, I raised the cargo floor of my four so I have room to store these items.

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Floor continuing manual cycle pumps will work too. It'due south a chip of a workout with a completely flat tire, merely non onerous. It helps as well to minimize the time air'southward escaping: have your plug fix to become, and the roughening awl at the ready, before you lot pull out the puncture detail.
I keep a pair of side-nipping pliers in with the kit, expert at grabbing embedded nails. Not sure if that's the proper name, they await like kinda similar this:

(The ones I'm using were my dads I call back.)
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My Prius has a spare and so I have no experience with the Toyota branded repair kit / goop. Have Contrivance's version in the Charger though and I take used that one. Middle of Montana, woke up one Sunday to a completely flat tire and a need to be in Denver Monday morning. Pulled out the pump w/ goop, filled the tire and went to the nearest tire store to observe information technology airtight. Drove downwards to Sheridan WY, tire shop closed. Stopped in Casper WY, tire shop airtight. At that point I said screw it and collection the rest of the way to Denver. The tire saw speeds of up to 85, full distance driven on tire with goop was about around 600 miles. Took it into Disbelieve Tire the next 24-hour interval, they unmounted the tire, hosed out the goop, did their patch piece of work, checked that wheels balance and sent me on my way at no charge. I had not purchased those tires from them.
I do deport a tire plug kit merely nothing as fancy as that blackjack kit. Mine was maybe $10 came with the two t-handles you'll want and something like 30 plugs. Like to:

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I've used it on a sidewall of a buddy'southward Jeep that got nicked on rocks. Defenseless it before the tire was flat so but plugged the holes, used my pocket knife to cut off the excess plug, re inflated with the air compressor I carry too (connects to the battery terminals, some Chinese brand) and went on nosotros went on our way. He drove the remainder of that summertime on the tire with the plugs in information technology, I know because I plugged the aforementioned tire later after he caught rocks again (different holes, the old plugs were still in it).

In the Prius I've thought about throwing plugs in, simply really information technology never leaves the pavement and I don't want to accept a compressor taking up infinite and I take a spare, even if I didn't I would but rely on my roadside assist if it was something the pump and broth couldn't prepare.
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Looks like diagonal cutters, aka diags aka dikes. Yous might be amend off with a set of linesman'due south pliers which are designed for gripping, twisting, bending and cutting. They simply accept more than uses than a set of dikes.
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likewise see mail service # 7.
No experience with a Toyota OEM repair kit....but

I have never had luck with those "can of sealants" products.

IMO All-time is a motorcycle flat tire repair kit (folds to a small container) plus the 12V inflator.
(Sometimes a knife blade, safety glovers, needle nose pliers etc can exist of value in an emergency tool kit...plus duct tape, wire and a flash calorie-free!)

So have the plug kit repair professionally repaired once the emergency is over.
IIRC, the Toyota supplied inflator has to have the gunk canteen attached to inflate the tyre.

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Couldn't a person just plug in the inflator, pump out and discard the sealant? So you could use it just as yous would whatsoever compressor keeping the bottle attached.
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Well that's just crazy. Could an adapter exist had to get in inflate tires without the can? Throw information technology out and get a normal inflator.
I sorta went belt and braces, junked the Toyota gunge kit, got a spacesaver tyre and bought an aftermarket inflator and a tyre (plug) repair kit.
I remember the kit is a horrible replacement for a spare tire. What ever they say, a spare fits in whatever motorcar. About all you may fix and may even to brand worse is a deadening leak.
That review said I have a kit and compressor in my motorcycle.
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Conveying a spare tyre on whatever of my bikes was only too hard for my skill set.
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Well I don't know about that.... way back when I backed into a telephone pole that was laying down hidden in some weeds. Concluded upwards putting a huge bolt right through the tread of a set of mud terrain tires. I lost all tire pressure level within a few seconds. I was able to use some large plugs I had to close upwardly the pigsty and drive the 30+ miles to a tire store. They looked it over, said the plugs seemed to be fine only pulled them anyways to put in their ain and I kept information technology as a spare for years. Was withal property air when I sold it a few years later. If you have a catastrophic failure, yeah you're screwed, simply you can probably plug holes from most road droppings without much difficulty. I don't recommend driving on plugs for any extended length of time, but it'll become you lot to a tire shop.
On the occasion you come out and find the tire not completely flat you have a chance a plug and a can of sealant works. Just a existent apartment that the tire dewdrop is broken, your done. The fourth dimension and what that cost, you could have a pile of spares.