ive gotten work done at the Big O near me. never had a problem with a
repaired tire, but you can hear various stories about how it voids the speed
rating, etc. personally, i would not use a repaired tire for high speed
track work where you regularly exceed 100 mph.
-james c
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Rehrer" <mrehrer@rehrer.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Cc: <joshk@csua.berkeley.edu>; "Allison Coates" <allisonc@cs.Berkeley.EDU>;
"Philip Yu" <yuppy@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Emergency Tire Replacement / Repair
> Looks like I will be doing something about my tire situation sooner
> rather than later.
>
> My driver' s rear lost all of its air very rapidly this evening. I do
> not yet know if it is repairable or for that matter if it is worth
> repairing but I was hoping to run tomorrow in the afternoon groups.
>
> Questions:
>
> Would anyone care to give their opinion on running on repaired tires? I
> assume that it depends on the nature of the damage...
>
> Does anyone know of a reputable place that I could have this fixed
> tomorrow (Sunday) morning?
>
> Does anyone know of a reputable place that would have enough selection
> to have a full set of tires in the sizes I want that could install them
> tomorrow (Sunday) morning?
>
> I am in Mountain View but am willing to go just about anywhere (clearly
> I am addicted and will not be purged early next season).
>
> Incidentally if I buy new tires tomorrow I need:
>
> 2x 225 45 17
> &
> 2x 245 40 17
>
> Any and all recommendations welcome.
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> Matthew
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