Is this tire repairable?

[f308gt4]

M3P. Got a nail in my tire, looks like inside edge. Pics came out crappy, but posted below. Tires have almost 3000 miles on them. Don’t have time to take it to a tire shop today, so will go out tomorrow.

If they can’t fix because they are too close to the edge, I assume I’ll need to get 2 new tires due to the mileage. Tires are 19” Hankook Evo3.

What do you guys think?

 

[Motion122]

1/2" away from the edge a tire shop may or may not want to repair it for liability reasons. You have to call around to see who is willing to repair it.

 

[akaCarlo]

I just had a tire repaired. A screw was right in the first outer tread line

 

[Gauss Guzzler]

Tires can always be repaired no matter where the puncture is, but the repair is more likely to leak if it's really close to or within the sidewall. So to reduce liability (e.g. Ford Explorer / Firestone fiasco) and or customer returns/complaints many tire shops have a 1/2" rule that is somewhat open to interpretation.

Try an independent tire shop and if they refuse, consider doing it yourself with a plug kit. Thanks to Ford's f-up, there is no longer any risk of death from a poorly patched tire - nowadays the worst-case scenario is that you'd get a TPMS warning at an inconvenient time and have to stop at a gas station (yuck!) for air.

 

[f308gt4]

Thanks everyone!

I had a few minutes during one of my errands this morning and stopped by a nearby Big-O, and sure enough they said it’s too close to the edge and not repairable. They are able to get me a set of the same tires cheaper than the TireRack price by tomorrow morning, so I’m just going to bring it back in and get them replaced.

 

[Occhis]

Only 3000 miles, why not just replace that one tire with the same as the other 3? I did that last year at Tesla SC with about 25,000 miles. Cost a little over $300 total.

 

[ucmndd]

No tire shop will touch it because they of course want you to buy new tires, but you can be damned sure I’d plug that myself for less than $10 and have a 99% chance of it lasting the entire life of the tire.

It’s such a fantastic waste of hundreds of dollars and resources to replace two essentially brand new tires for that.