green stuff to stop tyre going down

It's SLIME Greg. If you have a small hole in the tread area it may help you. When I have had it before it hasn't helped me. Have had a few bottles in the shed that have been used though not very successfully :-( Yes, that is in four wheel bikes - quads. In a 4by ute/truck I would rather the string type plugs and some good pressure.

I have some stuff called 'never flat' that I use in the pushie. I have never had a flat, but I don't ride much either;-).

I used to have tyre slime and it worked OK. I changed a tyre and the tube had hundreds of little thorns from catheads, but it didn't leak.

Greg

I have used a similar type of thing its call Tyre Fix, you can pick it up from most servo's FanTASTIC stuff!

Its just a spray in foam sort of thing and actually has to set... you can see when you inflate the tyre where the puncture/s were and the foam begins to seep out and in no time it stops, really great stuff... i had a puncture out bush put that gear in it and havnt had a drama since....and come to think about it i only just remembered that i still have it in it, hahah.. thanks for the reminder i guess it just goes to show that its worked a treat and i put that in probably 2 months ago and i do 600km a week, so you do the math!

GREAT stuff!

Air from Chernobyl?

Yeah carried a can of the stuff around all the time when I had my road bike was called Finnie Leak back then, I remember seeing on the instructions was not a permanant repair and will eventually eat the tyre from inside out, it advised you to change/replace the tyre when available, never used it luckily so cant comment on the way it works good or bad. Regards Steve M

Slime is not temporary you can keep it in for the life of the tyre. They started out with push bikes. I had it in my bike it was good. Recently I had a sidewall leak from hitting a log in the bush at nearly 40km/h. The tyre guy said if he took the tyre off the rim it would ruin the tyre. I wacked slime in it and it sealed right away. I have since let the tyres down for off road and reinflated no probs, I also dive at 100km/h daily, all is fine.

I used the green slime in my tyres for about a year, initially put it in all 4 tyres when I did the CSR. Whether it worked on the CSR or not I don't know, when I changed my tyres a few months later there was a couple of spongy bits where a screw and a stud had actually penetrated the tyre. As I fluctuate my tyre pressures quite a bit I hadn't noticed if I had lost any tyre pressure at all. 2 downsides to the green slime. Can't balance front wheels correctly, 2 tyre dealers I went to couldn't correctly balance the wheels and when I told them I had green slime in them. You could feel it at about 90Ks, then it would disappear. They said that was the reason. the other downside is that when you take the tyres off the rims, one helluva mess. EricM WA

Revolting Stuff!!! If you have intentions of later taking the tyre off the rim and fixing the puncture later on, then you are in for a gassing indeed. The stuff stinks, and makes a huge mess when you take the tyre off the rim - steer clear!!!

Anyone who has done this will know exactly what I mean!!!

Jo

Slime by name and nature absolute s?it to clean out for repair. if it worked would not see tyres in shop.
Cheers
Charlie

I used it in 2 tyres, one with a tile chip and one with a screw, bot through the tread, both fairly small holes.

Results perfect, never a problem.

Didn't have to have a balance with it in, could see that may be a problem on some balancing apparatus.

The tyre guys were not happy when I had new tyres fitted, but I did tell them it was there so there were no surprises.

for small leaks you can use latex number 1 it will seal & is a lot cheaper & being a type of natural rubber is easy to clean out when you get time to do it properly simply peel it out or hose it out