Has anyone used Slime?

This sort of stuff like most gimmicks, pops its head back up about every few years, when there is a new crop of suckers who have not heard what a crock it is
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The original was a french product.

Its a bad idea.
It can clog up valve stems to the point where you can neither inflate nor deflate the tyre.
It is always some sort of solvent bassed glue, sooner or later it will turn into a glob and cause unfixable wheel balance problems.
Because it is usually some sort of solvent bassed rubber cement, it causes rubber, especially tubes to degrade and perrish
Then there is the issue of what happens when you go to a tyre shop with a wheel and tubeless tyre slathered is a sticky gooey mess...how much extra do ya recon they will charge you to do an already dirty job that just got and hell of a lot worse....if they will even touch the job.

AND its not a permanent, reliable nor approved method of repairing a puncture.

I tried some of this stuff way back in the late seventies......the whole concept is a bad idea.

cheers

The only decent use for the stuff is for the kids pushbikes and maybe the ride on lawn mower.

I would never use it on my vehicles tyres as it makes an absolute mess when you need to change tyres. Definately for use for tubes only.


Cheers Kev

Have found some of these products can cause corrosion of tubeless steel rims ie quad bikes therefore would be very hesitant to use it as a puncture preventative.

I would only ever use it in pushbikes motorbikes etc or in an emergency for a full sized passenger vehicle tubed tyre.

You would be better off carrying plugs for tubeless tyres.

It may be troublesome/unsafe in the longer term with cars ....and big tyres would need a lot of slime in them.. but it is widely used in all forms of serious cycling....there are a variety of slime types for both tubed and tubeless bike tyres...and the stuff is magical in its ability to seal small holes....one version is a milky latex compound that doesnt corrode rims !

Did once on a 4 wheel motor bike as the guy directed. Total waste of time. It stopped the air from rushing out a hole, just took a day to go down instead of an hour. Wasn't in long enough to do much damage to the rim, just repainted.

Neil

Brillant for bike tyres . I went from fixing punctures 2or3 times a week due to 3 corner jacks around kalgoorlie. To no flats for 12months
Wouldnt use it in my car though