Tyreshield

Impressive? I reckon if you can get Brocky back from the dead to spruik anyone would be impressed.

Hi John

Similar products have been around since Adam. I can recall injecting green goo into my bicycle tyres circa 1950's :-) I suppose it can work in a limited application but rough trackwork usually destroys a tyre. Not sure what it does to the inside of the tyre over an extended period. Sounds a bit like snake oil to me :-)

Cheers

John,

I do have a couple of bottles of that stuff but as yet have not used any.

It is supposed to be bio degradable and can be washed out of the tyre, when the tyre needs to be changed, with water.

Why I have not used it is because in the video they say it will plug a hole up to 6mm. That is good until you want to deflate the tyre for sand driving. The stuff will cause the tyre value to seal up.

The tyre value is a lot smaller than 6mm and I can see it being a real pain unsealing the tyre value.

PS, I was given the bottles of Tyreshield to try but never got round to it.

Wayne

Been using similiar stuff (stan's no-tubes) on my mountain bike for years. It's just latex with a binding material from what i can see. You could make a similiar product for 1/3 the price.

The problem i see is that latex based products go off over time, with mountain bikes averaging around 3 months in hot weather. Leaving this stuff in the tyre over time would be less effective imo.

The customer testimonials are misleading somewhat as they imply that this product will reduce or eliminate punctures....it will rather plug the small hole formed with a puncture. Travelling thousands of kms without a puncture is not necessarily due to this product. Food for thought.

ymmv

Andrew

Hi John,

Concur with the other comments here. Similar products have been around for ages. Proma Performance Products do one, as do KMart and Repco and probably a thousand others.

Do they work, Proma yes definitely. Have used it in trailer and bus tyres for about 10 years. great stuff. Key is the tyre must be rotated or moved regularly, so no good in a tyre that sits stationary for 10 months out of 12, ie the once a year caravan.

Also a real pain if you regularly lower pressures for off road work as you need the valve towards the top of the tyre to let air out without getting gunk all over yourself.

Have a good Christmas and New Year.

Be Safe
K

Hi all, thanks for your inputs.

I have just received a response to a query to the company that makes the product. They say: "thank you for your inquiry regarding sidewall staking.Because of centrifugal force Tyre Shield will only work in the tread area of the tyre".

I can fix these myself with plugs so I'll pass - I was hoping that it'd work on the sidewalls as well.

Cheers.

Hi John,

I know it's a bit late as you've decided it's not suitable for your purpose, but I have used this stuff in the past.

I had it in my tyres on my rally car, the tyreshield was explained to me that it would remain as a liquid until a hole developed and then it would work harden (for lack of a better word) as it leaked out through the hole and thus plug the hole. I found in reality it formed a thin layer of goo around the inside of the tyre, most likely from small foriegn particles running orund inside the tyre?! Like sand/dust or maybe even moisture. The tyres lost their balance fairly quickely (due to the way it set inside the tyre), I did still get a puncture, but this I believe due to the contaminants mentioned earlier.

Cheers.