# Is flat repair unsafe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-flat-repair-unsafe/502998>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-flat-repair-unsafe/502998 "2009-07-14T16:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-flat-repair-unsafe/502998/21 "2009-07-14T21:02:53Z")

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> [@Philster](#):
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> I retract.
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> If you are reading this thread, **you have to read this link** , with info from The Rubber Manufacturers Association, a tire industry trade group. Plugs? How about 12 mill in damages for a repair center using them, and the The Rubber Manufacturers Association weighing in against them… and a blowout is the cause:
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> [http://www.cabanisslaw.com/verdict/scan27.html](http://www.cabanisslaw.com/verdict/scan27.html)

Wow, exactly the answer I was looking for.

Any class-action lawyers out there want to sue every mechanic who has ever installed a plug without a patch? The courts have known about the danger since Mar 19, 1989, and yet in 1996 and again in 2009 tire stores and Toyota dealerships are still putting their customers’ lives at risk.

As far as all those who have had good experiences with tire repair, I am not surprised. If 99% of professional tire repairs are good, then there is a 1/10,000 chance of someone like me going 0 for 2. That makes me unlucky, but not spectacularly so.

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