Mazda CX-5 Forums
Technical Section => Wheels & Tyres => Topic started by: chubnut on July 31, 2021, 06:16:04 pm
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First of all sorry to put this if everybody is aware of it.
I was thinking of buying a spacesaver wheel but put off by the fact you can only use them on the rear and all the faff of packing out the carpet, so after some research i bought a punture repair kit for about £10 from Amazon.
If that fails then i will use the sealant as i have reliably been informed that if you take your car to a tyre specialist within 24 hours the sealant can be scraped out and provided its not a sidewall puncture can be repaired. But the within 24 hours is crucial so the sealant doesn't fully go off.
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Depends on the tyre people, none of them round here will repair a tyre with gunk in.
All they want to do is sell you a new tyre.
Save the planet, not!
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I wouldn't advise anyone to use the tyre sealant. A spave saver kit doesn't cost that much and it wouldn't be any hassle to me as I would leave it to the breakdown people to change unless the car was on the drive outside my house.
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my space saver didn't need any packing out, bought the Mazda replacement foam with the new bolt for the sub-woofer, already had the jack and other tools needed from previous cx-5, all good. Tyre sealant is fine on a small puncture, but if you have a larger puncture won't work, if you have no emergency cover could prove expensive.