Flat nearly new KDW!!!! ARGH!!!!!
 

Well guys it looks like i need a new tire. Took my car out for her first drive on Friday night, went out to the garage today and my drivers side rear tire is dead flat!!!!

I have stock sized KDW's on her and they only have about 8000km on them.

Any suggestions, should i get it patched (not my first choice due to the performance nature of the car and tire), just change the bad one, or do i have to change both rears???


HELP!!


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I'd go for a patch and plug as long as it's just a little puncture. No sense wasting a good tire.

I'm going to pull the tire tomorrow and see how bad the damage is.

where is the nail? IE in the middle of the tread, or right near the sidewall? also, did you drive on it while it was flat at all? is the sidewall scrubbed/grooved at all from it being driven on flat? or did it just go flat overnight? if its just a normal nail in the middle of the tread and you didnt drive on it at all flat, then i would try a patch-plug in it. you dont really have anything to lose. check the pressure very frequently as well if you go that route. Also if you are planning on doing alot of tracking you might want to look into that....i dont know how a patch-plug will deal with the beating delivered on a track. Also, if you have to get a new tire, i would simply get one new tire and rotate that one and the other tire on the back to the front. that way there is no risk of cooking the diff with a slightly different tire size on the same axel.

talk to Al about getting a new tire. Obviously if you bought the KDW's you're going to be hitting up the track... otherwise why bother with all that road noise. The last thing you want is to be ripping around a corner at the track and have your rear tire blow. Spend the few hundred to save a few thousand. Or at least that's my take.