I have a 2019 Tour with Dunlops front and rear. I had a flat on the rear two or three months ago and replace that tire for a tidy sum of close to four hundred dollars locally. That price was was balancing and mounting on rim plus tire purchase. I had removed tire with help from Dave0430. My question is have any of you plugged a tire and been successful and happy with that repair. This will be like the opinions on running a car tire I know. I have reservations but cost is almost prohibitive. This last tire only has about three or four hundred miles on it basically brand new. I'm wondering if these Dunlops aree really soft and prone to easy penetration. Opinions please.
I've used "
PATCH PLUGS" several times. Rear tires seem to catch stuff that was laying flat until the front tire run over it and kicked it up to be caught on end by the rear tire following. Break it down, clean inside, scuff, insert tip from inside, grab with pliars, pull into place with some tire vulcanizing glue on patch, pump up, trim excess. Never had one fail, I keep some on hand, buy at NAPA, they come in sizes to suit.
Short story, in 1980 was working midnight shift on I-95 in Prince William County, rain, I just patrolling, suddenly there at Rt 619 the road was covered in pine needles. I stopped, stepped out, was thousands of 16 penny nails and busted cardboard boxes where they had fallen off a truck. Called VDOT, they come out with shovels & magnet truck to clean it up, but in the mean time I routed NB traffic off exit to get back on up the road, using Rt 1 I hoped. Before I went home at the end of the shift, found 6 nails in each rear tire of my police car, none in the fronts, not one. Never found the errant truck, but did have one 18 wheeler at the scales (3 or 4 miles up the road) with 16 flats, only his steer tires escaped puncture.