well this sucks...not exactly drag race related but all of us racers have had to rig something up from time to time...im kind of in a bind here.

im in charlotte North Carolina right now......about 7 hours from home. its saturday around 4:00 or so and ive been on the phone for the last 3 hours. i just got a nail in the sidewall of my tire in my audi.....no good....i can't find a tire ANYWHERE. 235/35/19. nothing is going to be open tomarrow, and i absolutely positively HAVE to be back to maryland tomarrow.

soo...even though extremely ghetto.....do you think there is any possibility that maybe putting some sort of expoxy or something on this nail might possibly keep in in place long enough to get home? this car is so damn low that if it goes flat im going to be ultra screwed. luckily the sideskirts come off easy.

so my question.....does anybody have any suggestions on how to rig this to work....or even better does anybody know anyplace anywhere near here that might have a tire in that size? i just put these damn tires on the car like 2 weeks ago too.

BTW this car is for sale haha

 

Joe maybe a tire plug with a patch over it? get a plug put it in till it is almost flush then lay the patch over it.

 

u have a spare ?

 

nah no spare.....if i put anything with a smaller rolling diameter on the car it wouldnt even be able to roll. im on my way to some sort of a get to gether thing (not driving obviously) at some porsche shop that does a ton of wheel/tire packages. its my last hope with out having to ghetto rig it

 

I've done this before when stuck, and gotten away with it in the sidewall until I could get a new tire. There is a type of tire plug that is like twine with the stickiest goo in the world on it. I just bought some more at the local TSC tractor supply store (I live in the middle of a cornfield! ) last night. Just double it up and stick it in with the applicator and some rubber cement for lubricant. Leave 3/8 of an inch or so sticking out. It just might hold.

 

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I work at a tire shop... 90 percent of the time ti wont work... but since you have such a hard side wall you should be able to pull it off...g/l

 

pull the nail out and put a screw it its place.

 

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with loctite

 

hmmmm...niiice car. hot babe. does she come with the car? hope you work it out and get to where you gotta go.

 

i just put a plug in the sidewall of my 3500 series van and to my surprise it is actually holding

 

Rope plugs will fill a sidewall most of the time, also a patch plug with lots of cement from the inside will hold.

When you get back post more pics of the girl

 

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I second that............. especially the part about the girl

Phil

 

damn that car is hot, does the girl come with it too?

 

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use a tire plug

 

you should have called gmp today, they are in charlotte and had a show/gettogether called the fallout. have tires in srock and tire maching............

 

i seen a tampax commercial where a chick plugs a hole in a boat with one, think it will work on a tire too.

hope you get it fixed sir

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Try the nail/loctite?

 

nice car looks like my friends audi except his is maroon. man, that thing corners like its on rails, very impressive car.

 

if i would hae seen this earlier, i could have stopped by burleys and got you a tire for $20.....

 

sorry im not going to be much help but that chic is fine, i cant get pass the chic to check out the car. lol

 

I got a plug that should work in the chick.

 

That car is hot.
Hope you got home.

 

Whoo matching panties and boots.