Ford Focus tubeless tire repair

The tubeless tire has a great "survivability". It is able to maintain tightness even with through damage. With a foreign body stuck in the tread, you can often drive many miles without even knowing it. However, the need to repair a tubeless tire with your own hands may still arise. In many cases, minor repairs to a tubeless tire can be done on your own on the road and sometimes even without removing the wheel from the car.
For independent minor repairs of tubeless tires on the road, there are special kits for sale.

The tubeless tire repair kit includes a special needle, a rasp, a container of glue, a knife, a tourniquet for filling punctures.

1. Inspect the tire and locate the damage.

2. Remove the foreign object from the protector.

3. Rasp the inside of the hole. After processing, the surface will be cleaned of dirt, rust, its edges will be smooth.

4. Remove the protective film from the bundle pieces from the kit...

5. ... and separate the bundle from the substrate.

6. Pass the tip of the tourniquet into the eye of a special needle ...

7. ...and stretch to the middle of the segment

8. Apply a layer of adhesive from the kit to the tourniquet. Also treat the surface of the hole in the tire with glue.

9. Insert the tip of the needle into the hole.

10. Press the needle handle to push the tourniquet into the hole so that both ends of the tourniquet about 10 mm long remain outside.

11. Pull the needle sharply out of the hole.

12. Cut off the ends of the harness remaining on the surface to the level of the tread.

13. Wait for the time specified in the instructions attached to the repair kit, required for the polymerization of the adhesive, and bring the tire pressure to the recommended one.
The described method of repairing a tubeless tire with your own hands does not replace professional repair in specialized workshops. This is just a way to solve a problem along the way and complete the journey safely. However, in many cases, after a properly carried out self-repair, you can operate the wheel for an arbitrarily long time.