Bullet Holes in Tire

[BobInMN]

If a guy was to have a .22 cal bullet hole through the sidewalls of a new trailer tire do you think he could just throw a couple of patches inside the sidewalls and put a tube in it? Just wondering, you know, if something like that was to happen.

 

[Daver1963]

if something like that was to happen.

If someone was to take aim at something like that maybe they could hit the treaded area where the tire could be patched and not need a tube.
Seriously, I would think that the sidewall patched, even with a tube, would not be very safe and the pressure of air and weight would not be safe.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I would not use it. Around here the tire shops will not touch sidewall damage.

Chris

 

[k0ua]

It just seems like such an unlikely event, it is hardly worth mentioning. Maybe take it to a tire repair shop and ask them?.. You know just saying... hypothetically.

 

[bcp]

I would repair and use it ONLY IF I or someone could use it on an implement, farm wagon, or other slow off-road use.

Bruce

 

[/pine]

It's expensive but it may able to be vulcanized...?

 

[BrandonR]

Broken structure in the sidewall, the tire is no longer fit for highway use in any way.

 

[k0ua]

Broken structure in the sidewall, the tire is no longer fit for highway use in any way.

That was what I was thinking too, but he said trailer, and I wasn't sure if he meant farm trailer or highway trailer. If it was some old farm trailer/wagon of some kind, pulled behind a tractor and never taken on the highway, then probably OK.. A highway trailer, then not so much.

Of course it is all hypothetical discussion anyway..It is not like he actually shot his tire or anything like that:shocked:

 

[brin]

I have to differ some....if the sidewall is patched, with a boot, from the inside the pressure wouldn't be a problem...so in the hypothetical event the sidewall of a tire was penetrated by a mysterious 22 cal. bullet ...a patch inside with the addition of a tube would satisfy me enough that I would pull the trailer...:confused3: Hypothetically of course...

 

[handirifle]

Boy, glad its not me having this hypothetical discussion. Bad enough when I have to eat crow over 4 brand new looking but 4 yr old traier tires. "No problem, they will be fine" till 100 miles up the road one shreds itself.

I wouldn't trust anything on that tire on highway. Would probably live a long life on a rarm trailer with a tube in it. My tire shop told me they are not allowed to vulcanize patches any more, not on sidewalls ever.