JIMNLIN wrote: if the tire was removed and a inside patch was used it will last the lifetime of the tire. One of my '03 Dodge truck tire LT265/75-17 E Michelins with 101k miles has a inside patch for a nail hole since the truck was 3 months old. Now if the nail hole was in the shoulder and in the very corner sometimes those may leak with time as that spot flexes the most. Most tire shops will guaranty a patch but not a plug.
Jim
I agree with what he says.
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I have had been running two patches (not plugs) in one tire and one patch in another for 5/10,000 miles. I expect the repair to last the rest of the tread life about 20,000 miles.
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I wouldnt mind running on a properly patched tire but if I were in your shoes with an 08 I would check the spare. If it is a full size matching tire you would just have to get it swapped out with the patched one rebalanced and put on the truck. Then you would be good as new until you buy those "E" rated tires.
Carl
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I know of two plugged tires of the eight drivers on my PB and they've been there for about 2 years. The trailer has another one or two and I'm pulling 85-95,000 lbs every day and there's never been a problem. My Uni has one patched and one plugged last year of the four tires. I've seen 22 ply mining truck tires plugged and continue to work without any problems, so I really wouldn't worry about it.
I have never had a plug fail. But, I have only had a tire plugged about once every 5 years, so that is not a very good sample.
However, there is a huge difference between a plug or pathc leaking, which would be very annoying, versus causing a blowout, which is completely beyond annoying.
I would not be afraid to tow with a plugged tire, but my trailer only weighs 4,000 pounds.
I have not had a tire patched in over 20 years. Always just plugged.
Wayne in San Jose
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I'd have no problem towing with a repaired tire, matter of fact I do it all the time. I live on an old farmstead and there are nails everywhere around here, some probably 100 years old that are just lying in wait for me. By the time the tires are worn out on my dodge diesel I'd say they average two plugs each in them. I've never had a plug fail in the repairable area shown above, I once tried to push it and fix it a little too close to the edge and it didn't hold, just leaked down, no blowout. I put myself through college working in a tire shop and in my opinion a patch is more likely to fail than a plug, we had better luck with the plugs. I say plug it/patch it, whichever you're comfortable with and don't worry about it, it'll be fine.
I personally wouldn't put E rated tires on a half ton truck like the tundra. The stock tires will hold all the truck's rated for and you most likely don't have the rims to hold the air pressure that it takes to get the full load rating out of the E rated tires, 80 psi on my truck. If you need to put non-stock tires on the truck to make it do what you want then you need a bigger truck, not different tires.
I don't remember the last time I used a patch. I know for at least the last 20 years I've only used plugs, and the tires have always been problem-free. On my last trip, about 3300 miles, I had two flats from nails on my trailer tires. I plugged them in the campground and continued on my way.
So in Summary, Ronnie, it seems that if they did an internal patch, you should be fine. Larry's idea of rotating the patched tire to now be the spare would serve as an additional precaution (assuming the spare matches the other tires).
-PJ
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