You guys may have seen my previous post regarding my tire losing air. I finally got that taken care of and the other day I started losing air again, my head almost exploded. After calming down I decided to investigate

Apparently the original owner of the car had a bra installed at one point... and one of the screws was left partway in and decided to fall out and land in the dead center of the tread on my <2 mo old Goodyear F1 Supercar EMT. According to tire places, goodyear says you aren't supposed to plug a run flat and the only reason they gave me was that its "against manufacturers specifications". I've never had run-flats before but I was not about to buy a $400 tire. I just plugged it like any other tire and its been perfectly fine since yesterday morning.

Is there any logical technical reason why you shouldn't plug them?
Or have any of you guys plugged them to later run into issues?

I'm going to be heading out in like 15 min but will check back later.

my guess is since the structure of the tire is damaged ( bra screw damage in this case) it no longer keeps its runflat qualities. it might, but manufacturers wont take chances of getting charged new rims because you drove on a a pluged/flat tire and it tore open and fucked your rims
i might be completely wrong, if you ever get a flat on that tire, dont drive on it.
their might be an actual technical reason but probably as to do with structural damage

This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Apr 15 2013 03:10pm

i have aim, just msg me man lol


heres a bunch of shit about it

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-corvette-general-discussion/2327128-can-you-plug-a-run-flat-tire.html

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-general/3176264-can-you-plug-a-run-flat-tire.html

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-corvette-general-discussion/3142887-run-flat-tire-questions.html

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-tech/3030751-plugging-a-run-flat-tire.html

zack you know I don't have aim installed anymore, but thanks for the topic links, essentially its you should be fine but you officially lose your speed rating


I hate these damn goodyear run-flats. I'm getting some Michelin Pilot Super Sports whenever these wear down, It would make me happy to get them now, but thats 1200-1500 I don't want to spend