A can of sealant is a way of moving a car. It is not a way of repairing a tyre, and the gap between those two things is wider than the label suggests. The contents are a latex emulsion pushed in through the valve and flung around the inside of the tyre by the wheel turning. Against a small nail hole in the middle of the tread it will often hold pressure long enough to get somewhere sensible. Against a burst it achieves nothing at all, because the casing has torn open and there is no hole small enough for latex to bridge.
The real cost of the can turns up later. Once the liner is coated, nobody can read it. The inside of a tyre is where the evidence lives: cut cords, the grey scuffing that proves a tyre has been run flat, a second injury the driver never knew about. Buried under dried latex, none of that can be seen, and a tyre nobody can inspect is not a tyre anybody can honestly call repairable. It finds the pressure sensor too, and blocks it. So if the tyre has already gone, leave the can in the boot. You are not saving that tyre and you may be spoiling the answer on the one beside it.
A shredded tyre is not a puncture and cannot be treated like one. We carry stock for cars, SUVs and 4x4s and come to the exact spot you are stopped, which is as likely to be a side street in Grosvenor Gardens as a main road. Whether it is Buckingham Palace Road in rush hour or Vauxhall Bridge Road at midnight, we answer. On Buckingham Palace Road, day or night, the Ebury Street area included, arrival across SW1 runs 30 to 60 minutes. A SW1 address in Westminster and one in Grosvenor Gardens are the same round.
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The traffic around Victoria Street and Buckingham Palace Road leaves you almost nowhere to stop, and that pressure is exactly what puts a can of sealant into somebody's hand. It is the right instinct in the wrong situation. Sealant buys distance on a tyre that is still whole, and a burst tyre is not still whole. If the car is stationary and out of the way, leave it stationary and have the correct tyre brought to it, because the wheel has to come off either way and the old tyre stands a far better chance of being read honestly.
A driver stopped on Buckingham Palace Road emptied a can into a tyre that had already burst. Almost all of it came straight back out, because there was no longer anything for the latex to seal against.
A tyre reached us coated inside from a can used two days earlier. The original injury may well have been repairable, but with the liner covered there was no way to say so with a straight face, and it was replaced.
One wheel had a sensor that had stopped reporting since a can had been used. It was cleaned and tested while the tyre was off the rim, which is the only convenient moment anybody gets for that.
Not directly. What it wrecks is the inspection. A tyre gets assessed from the inside, and once the liner is coated in dried latex the injury cannot be measured, the cords cannot be seen and nobody can rule out a second hole. The tyre usually gets replaced because of what cannot be checked.
No. A blowout means the casing has opened up, and sealant is designed for a puncture channel a few millimetres across. There is nothing for it to plug. Emptying one in costs you a can and gains you nothing, and the wheel still needs somebody to come to it.
Tell us when you ring so we bring the right stock. We clean the wheel and the sensor properly rather than putting a new tyre onto a rim full of latex, and we will be straight with you about whether the old tyre could have been saved or whether that question is now unanswerable.
Because the outside only shows you what went in. The inside shows you what it did: whether the cords are cut, how far the injury travelled, whether the tyre has been run soft. Every honest repair or replace decision is made from the liner, not from the tread.
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