Can this tire be fixed?
 

I also posted this in the Tires area, but I wanted some Canadian answers.

I'm in Calgary. I changed my winter tires to summer tires today. The summers feel so much different when driving than the winters, I can't believe it.

Anyways, I noticed that my RF tire has a nail in it - it looks like it goes through the tread, but may be into the sidewall (take a look below.) A friend of mine told me the tire is garbage because the nail was too close to the sidewall. The tire does not leak.

I have attached pictures. What do you think? Is that tire toast? Thanks!

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/6715/nailw.jpg
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9475/nail2k.jpg

Nope.....It's in the sidewall...

bad place cause it might last like that forever but if it blows under load you may have a full blown blow out---its happened to me sucks

It's not in the side wall, I say yes. However, you shouldn't track a repaired tire, no matter where it is repaired.

That is the tread, not the sidewall. I would find a place that would fix it first. It looks from your tire that you do not do a lot of aggressive driver since that part of the tread is not even scrubbed. I wouldn't worry about it. Fix it and drive on it IMO.