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shiftin_gear98
12-09-16, 09:14 AM
Morning Org,
I'm fairly sure I know the answer, put a new tyre on it.


However have any of you got a bike through an MOT with a temp repair in the rear?
tom_e
12-09-16, 09:21 AM
Shouldn't be an issue.
Blapper
12-09-16, 09:30 AM
'Temp repair'? I and others I know have run vehicles with liquid puncture seal in until the tyre is worn out (through one or more MOT''s). If you have had a repair done using a self galvanising plug, I would have thought that was permanent?

I have a feeling I am about to be educated.
tom_e
12-09-16, 09:55 AM
There's different types, the temp ones are ones you can fit at the roadside and involve pulling a string of rubber through the hole to seal it.
They're supposed to only be used to get you to somewhere where you can change the tyre or get a proper vulcanised repair done at a garage which is then good for the life of the tyre.
Blapper
12-09-16, 10:13 AM
So the liquid puncture seal isn't permanent? :-)
tom_e
12-09-16, 10:39 AM
No, or at least it's not recommended.

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shiftin_gear98
12-09-16, 11:55 AM
Sorry should have clarified - BMW donut, so no not a permanent repair.
Has been in for about 1500 - 2000 miles though.
John1411
13-09-16, 06:20 AM
Sorry should have clarified - BMW donut, so no not a permanent repair.
Has been in for about 1500 - 2000 miles though.

Does the MOT tester know about the repair?

I've heard of those type of plugs lasting thousands of miles, but how much contact do you have between the ground and you? Personally I'd get the tyre replaced. You seem to have had some good use out of the repaired tyre, and the weather isn't going to be getting any drier in the next few months.
ManMango
16-09-16, 12:06 PM
Just had my bike MOT'd had an old 'temp repaired' handed that over to the chap along with the bike.

He explained the repair the AA did is TEMP only and shouldn't be left in for more than 100 miles or so (this the the plugs specifications I believe)

So my garage sorted out a proper repair MUCH bugger mushroom inside. Fitted and passed my MOT. It would not have been a pass with the AA plug.

In fairness the tyre was off so it was easy to see the small mushroom and fail it based on that.