Puncture Safe For Toyota Iq Tyres ?

[bobkneale]

Hi, Has anyone tried or got any views / experience regarding this option for the IQ as most of us have no spare tyre

Its all explained on the below website:

http://www.ultraseal.biz/home1.htm

All Comments welcomed,

Positive Regards,

Bob Kneale

[Soeley]

I used to use that on my Maxi-Scooter, never had any problems with it and never had any punctures whilst using it. I think the BMW motor bike club endorse it. I have thought of using it on my iQ, but just being lazy lol

[bobkneale]

Puncture Safe have quoted me £45 to visit me and install there product in all 4 tyres of my IQ

So now its decision time ?

[Cyker]

Don't know, never heard of it before!

Sounds a bit like the slime goop that my brother uses in his mountain bike tyres.A

Always been a bit wary of having a liquid inside a tyre tho' as liquids tend to be heavy and that's more unsprung weight in the wheels, not to mention the idea of it sloshing about under braking or cornering...?

[Hicardo]

_{Phone this guy http://www.rlgtyres.co.uk/About.html}

_{I trust his views on tyres}

_Cheers

[johnan]

If you intend to keep your car for a while and expect to wear out a few sets of tyres, I would imagine some tyre fitting places would not be too keen to work on the wheels to put new tyres on, if they have messy goo in them.

There ain't no substitute for a spare wheel! (If you don't use the rear seat(s))

John

[Cyker]

On a slight tangent, do Toyota dealers still do free puncture repairs?

[Hicardo]

Yes

[sweet-dentist]

But unfortunately most tire flats are because of damage to the side of the tire... and this is unrepairable...

[Soeley]

I've never had a sidewall puncture, just nails, screws and glass through the tread. The Tyre Safe (Puncture seal) also works to slow down a blowout. They used to have some impresive videos on the sight, don't know if they still have?

[sweet-dentist]

OK.... I think then I am unlucky.... must be... never had a nail or glass or something else.... mostly they just go flat in time / was on my older antique student cars... then I would put a inner-tire-thingie inside... so from tubeless to tube-holding... Possibly the old steel rims / rusty and such...

Had it with my big luxury car... while turning left on a bridge... metal side with a sharp spot... bammm .. tire gone ... These were expensive tires with a short side... and very wide... :-)

And with snow...bamm the sidewalk-side... had this twice... same road...same corner.... exactly hitting the metal rainwater-flush-thing....

Also with bent steering-things...

[bobkneale]

_{Phone this guy http://www.rlgtyres.co.uk/About.html}

_{I trust his views on tyres}

_Cheers

Hi Rich, I e mailed your contact and they they replied asking for tyre size, I E mailed that back to him, and have had no reply back.

[bobkneale]

I have now decided (after much internet research) to get Puncture Safe fitted to my IQ tyres, fitting due on this thursday next and cost is total £45 for all 4 tyres.

I will post a report after to let the forum know of my experiences with it.

[bobkneale]

Puncture Safe now fitted, Only Time Will Tell !

[Cyker]

Keep us informed on how you get on! :)

How does the car feel with the goop in the tyres? Any noticeable differences to performance? Acceleration, braking, handling?

[bobkneale]

After first 2 miles of driving the puncture safe spread itself out evenly inside the tyres and since then I have no indication at all that it is in the tyres.

So now we will see as the years and miles go by and i can evaluate its potential long term performance.

See this website for more info:

http://www.puncturesafe.com/pages/testreports.htm

[Cyker]

How're you finding it so far Bob?

Thinking of getting it done on my Yaris; Pretty reasonable at £40 for 4 wheels and this time of year is when I tend to pick up random punctures...!

Main concern is the extra weight in the wheels and whether it causes balance issues.

Also, how is it with hard cornering and braking? Any noticeable issues?

[Guest]

Do you swap your -summer- tyres for winter tyres? I guess not, unless you have a spare wheel set with winter tyres on. Sounds very interesting and surprisingly cheap for the potential saving with regard to inconvenience with the Mr. T goop supplied with the car. Also, if they do stop punctures -suppose that will depend on degree of the severity of the puncture. Hope it works well Bob, but if anything, I expect you'll be just wishing for no punctures at all. Still, if it gives you more confidence in a lack of punctures, all's good.

[bobkneale]

Update on Puncture Safe:

I have had it fitted for a few months now, and have only positive comments to make about it.

No Punctures that I know of, (they would be perminiantly sealed by puncture safe if there were any small ones, I would not know)

No vibration at all

No difference noticed at all in driving the IQ

Steering feels no different

No problems at any speed of driving

No change in my MPG (my MPG last week was 70 MPG via the scan gauge)

Only took less than 5 miles of driving for it to distbritute itself evenly in the tyres, when it was first fitted, there was a small vibration up till then, its been OK since then.

I do no change my tyres in the winter

Only cost £40 to get fitted, and it took about 40 min to fit to all 4 tyres.

They came to my home to fit it

It lasts for the life of the tyre

Tyre pressures have held up since without any loss in pressure at all.

I do not carry a spare

So All together I am very happy so far,

My view is that all these products are not equal, some "goop" is rubbish and that is what gives this product a bad name, Puncture Safe is a good product in my view and should not be labeled as "goop" becuase it is a well performing product that works the way it is marketed as per the various videos and reviews I have read about it on the internet.

I also saw a live demo of it, at a steam fair, where the puncture safe rep had a tyre that had pucture safe fitted. he was sticking a screwdriver right into the tyre about twenty times that I saw, and puncture safe just perminiantly sealed the hole in micro seconds !

So for cars with no spare as our IQ's it is very handy to have puncture safe fitted.

That's my view !

Positive Regards, Bob

[Cyker]

Welp, bitten the bullet - Found the contact details for the North London distributor, will see how it goes! :D

[bobkneale]

Welp, bitten the bullet - Found the contact details for the North London distributor, will see how it goes! :D

Hope it works out as well for you as it did for me, I cannot see why it should not !

[johnan]

When the time comes for tyre replacement due to wear, do you anticipate any difficulty in getting the tyres changed because of the sealant inside them?

I know years ago the likes of Kwik Fraud refused to handle tyres that had been sealed and reinflated by the Toyota type of stuff because of the mess it creates, but maybe times have changed.

I suppose as long as you are buying tyres from them they would be daft to turn a customer away.

John

[Cyker]

It does warn that you should deflate the tyre as much as possible before removing it or it'll spray out when the bead is broken, but it sounds like it has a similar consistency to bath soap so I assume it will slowly gloop out rather than just flood all over the tyre machine.

As long as you warn the fitter, should hopefully be okay...

These tyres are still pretty new so hopefully I won't need to worry about it for a few years!

[craggle]

I think the main issue was that the stuff is pretty messy, sticky and difficult to clean off so the tyre fitter may well give the wheel back to you and ask you to clean it before putting new tyres on.

I had a puncture recently where a sliver of metal cut into the tyre. It only deflated slowly but it had cut a slot about 1" wide through the tread and through the reinforcing threads.

Sealer would have sealed the leak so I'd have been none the wiser but I would have been driving around on a dangerously weakened tyre. Personally if I get a puncture I'd like to know about it so I can investigate but maybe that's just me?

I run my mountain bike tubeless believe it or not. You simply put the tyres on but leave a small bit off the rim, pour in a small amount of latex sealer through the gap, fit the tyre fully then blow them up with a big air source. A compressor is needed to get the initial volume of air to get them to pop out onto the rims.

Once they are inflated you bounce the tyre, turn it, shake it, spin it Etc. so all the inside faces are covered then that's it, puncture resistant, light weight tyres.

Only thing is the sealer dries up between 6 and 12 months so you need to add a bit more through the valve to keep things liquid, Not sure if the car tyres suffer from the same problem?

Craig.

[Cyker]

Well according to the blurb, this stuff will only seal punctures up to 6mm. On bigger and/or sidewall punctures, it can only partly seal them and will slowly ooze out, giving a controlled deflation rather than just letting all the air out in one go. I suppose if it leaves blue goop everywhere, that would be a good indicator that there is a big puncture too

They say the gunk can be hosed out with water and doesn't need any freaky solvents to clean out which is a big plus, but yeah, I dunno how many tyre places will be up for doing that...

This does assume it works as advertised tho; This stuff seems very popular/common in the biker community, but there're quite a lot of posts from people finding it just leaked goop everywhere rather than sealing the puncture, or created scary imbalance/vibration problems in the bike tyres at high speed.

Guy's coming to do it in about an hour so I'll get to report back when I get off work :D