Any one tried this?

I once applied for a job with a crowd selling this type of product.
I got the job but did not go ahead as the whole thing sounded a bit iffy.

This was back in the early 80's.

Guess the question as with fuel saving devices is "If it's as good as the claim how come the big manufacturers don't use it."

Having said that they seem to have a very prestigious list of users.

Bob,
I used a similar product in my front tractor tyres a few years ago, I think it was called tyre seal and ARB sold it.

Used to get a punture in the front tyres quite often, after I used the product the puntures stopped, I also have it in the tubes of my material handling trolly because it has poor quality tubes and they kept going down all the time, again tyres don't go down now.

Hi Bob

I watched the 'Race to Dakar' with the BMW motorbikes and they where all running a liquid gel in their tyres for punctures.

I would suspect that at high speeds the gel might start to set with the heat. I noticed on their web site most of the vehicles recommended are slow moving or large haulage. If you had that gel in your tyres for a long time and it started to set out of balance you would have to chuck the tyre.

David

Very successful with green slime in pushbike tyres, you get to see a little green slime on the out side of the tyre and you know it has sealed the leak.
It is does stick up inside the valves, and gets into the pump if you are not careful.
Sure beats having to fix a flat on the way to work though.
cheers

I am an ex copper and years ago I took the licence off a young lady for drink driving... a few weeks later her name was in the paper as a pillion passenger who died when the rear tyre of the motorbike she was on blew out... apparently it had suffered a puncture in the past and the owner used the liquid puncture leak stuff... it kept the tyre inflated until the point where the damaged tyre self destructed.

Makes me wonder if she would still be alive if A she had not been drink driving and kept her licence or B if the bike owner brought the tyre to a shop to have the repair done. (I am sure if the shop saw internal damage to the tyre they would not have made the repair)

Spoke to the agent, his reply to my questions were.

1. What happens when you deflate tyre.
Answer- nothing as the product only sticks to rubber,through centrifical force the product goes to the outside of the tyre and away from the valve, if some gets in the valve by the tyre being left on it's side just put an air line on the valve and inflate slightly.

2. Does it cause deterioration of the rim, tube or tyre.
Answer- no in fact it makes it easier to remove the tyre and keeps the rubber in better condition.

3. Does it cause out of balance problems.
Answer- your tyres must be balanced before you install the product or it could make the out of balance problem worse, when owners vehicles have developed a shimmy problem it has been found there is a suspension problem causing it.

4. What cost for a 4wd.
Answer- around $10 per litre. He told me my 285/75/16 tyres require 700mil per tyre

5. What about high speed use.
Answer- 2 products available high and low speed applications.

6. Sealing capabilities.
Answer- His words not mine. An u/g mining company drove a truck over a 25mm spike then continued to run the tyre for the rest of it's life without problems. Product tested by driving a vehicle over spikes at high speed.

When the M7 in Sydney was being built, my operator on my bobcat was getting an average of 10 punctures a week at $25 a puncture. First I used to plug them but then I bought 20 litres of that stuff when I put new tyres on it. No more punctures. Sold the bobcat last week and still have 10 litres in the shed. Problem is it is not rated over 50k an hour