Car & Bike Tubeless puncture fix ask exorbitant price

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Well, I ride a FZ16 and it got a magnet on the rear wheel !!! :p
Last time I changed the tyre after 3.5 years and ~28K km, I counted 15 puncture fixes from inside (as from outside fixes become insivible after few days).

On the new tyre, things were going good for few months, but last week I saw 3 nails stuck on the tyre.
The first puncture guy I went asked Rs 120 per fix. I though he must be crazy so went to another and damn, he asked the same - Rs 120 per fix. Upon close inspection another punture was discovered - so 4 punctures, totalling to 480 rupees. Negotiated a lot and he agreed to fix all for 380 rupees.
I inquired about charge for normal tyre fix - he quoted rs 50 - which was even less than half what he asked for tubeless. (but he would negotiate a bit on that too).
Though there's lot more work to be done for tube puncture fix - opening the wheel, remove the tyre then the tube - fix and then reassemble everything. While for tubeless, its just putting the adhesive rubber in the hole. Hardly 2 mins per fix. I asked him why 120 for so little work? Only answer he came up with - everybody's charging 120.
(After that, I ordered a puncture fix kit from ebay for 120 :p with 5 adhesive rubbers. Yet to try !)

So, why do they charge so high? Is tubeless tyre some kinda premium or luxury thing !!!

PS: I was in Kolkata when I got fixed those 15 punctures and costed 50~70 rupees per fix. Now its story of Bangalore.
 
Yes, even today for the local garagewallas tubeless stuff is kind of luxury for them (no matter how commonly tubeless tyres are used today).
They still think that one who affords alloys and tubeless, is a big heavy splurger
............no matter you fit those on a Maruti 800.... they will count you in BMW segment :D
 
Yes. Better to stick with the puncture kit. Also the refills are readily available. My friend saved a lot with that kit.
It's actually easy to use it, except for the first time.
 
And always go to some reputed repair shop if possible, not these local huts. There is one shop near my office and whoever went to his shop did not come back with a puncture count of less than 4. In fact I heard in the Infosys office nearby there was a notice put up by some employee to avoid this guy.

I still regret the day I got conned by him and ended up spoiling my tyre.
 
I have bought the puncture repair kit and fixed couple of punctures ;) i remember paying 100rs in mrf showroom way back in 2010 for puncture repair. now u can buy puncture repair kit for 150rs online and with that u can easily fix minimum 10-15 punctures
 
Renegade said:
And always go to some reputed repair shop if possible, not these local huts. There is one shop near my office and whoever went to his shop did not come back with a puncture count of less than 4. In fact I heard in the Infosys office nearby there was a notice put up by some employee to avoid this guy.

I still regret the day I got conned by him and ended up spoiling my tyre.
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I had a vdo of a puncture repair guy near Tilak Road who actually had a nail fixed to his water tub at the bottom.... so while checking the tube for punctures he would actually induce a puncture or two himself to earn more :D I had caught him red handed .....
I had once made a similar vdo about a guy who came to buy old newspapers to my apartment. I showed him the heap of newspapers which was approx 10-12kg and he started counting it with his old weighing balance in which they put a 2kg wieght in one pan and papers in other. I was amazed at his accuracy that no matter what size of papers he picked from the heap it was exactly 2kgs??? I was surpised how can he be so accurate as every days news paper is not of same page count/weight. I stood by his side and observed his hand holding the weighing instrument. He had a clip which locked in place and no matter what amount of news papers he put it would never tilt on the side which had the 2kg weight.
I got his trick but played along. His count was 8kg. Then I confronted him and made him re count fairly.(By now I knew the locking pin trick) He was caught and could not say more. The fair weight came to around 14kgs and he had to pay the agreed price.
Then I understood how he could pay me Rs2/kg more than the market price coz he was cheating. I made a video of this guy asking him to give a demo of that trick and he did so :D
 
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thenvk said:
It's actually easy to use it, except for the first time.
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Yeah I have the same fear. What if I mess up things :P

mathewvp said:
Do you guys also keep a pump with you to fill the air, along with the kit?
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I don't have one. And I don't think that necessary.

Renegade said:
And always go to some reputed repair shop if possible, not these local huts. There is one shop near my office and whoever went to his shop did not come back with a puncture count of less than 4. In fact I heard in the Infosys office nearby there was a notice put up by some employee to avoid this guy.

I still regret the day I got conned by him and ended up spoiling my tyre.
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For tubeless?
If so, how can that be !!
 
When I purchased alloys along with tubeless tyres in 2010, the showroom person said that never ever repair punctures on your new set at any roadside or a local garage. They actually do more damage as they dont have the proper instruments to precisely remove the tire from the alloys and in that process they damage our rims in many ways.

I have observed, they simply use the traditional big screw driver or wrench which they insert between the tire and rim to take the tire out.... balaatkaari method ..

No matter you pay extra at a reputed experienced tyre shop, but you get a trustworthy guaranteed service and it actually saves your rims and tyres and more importantly the long term damage....
 
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Unfortunately vehicles don’t get punctured near by a preferred vehicle service station and that is why one has to rely on the quickest/nearest/affordable/feasible solution or do it themselves by carrying a repair kit for such situations.
It’s the same almost everywhere.
If you go to these road side make shift guys they will rip you as much as they can and they really don’t care about return customers.
If you go to branded service stations they rip you in a more standard way. They will make you change spares unnecessarily. They will charge you less for some routine work like oil change or some filter cleanings but they will make up for it by convincing you to change few other spares which actually are working well. Most of the time the owner does not debate much with them and give in. Not all people are technically sound about their vehicles... they are just "users" :)
So it’s just a matter of luck... If you are to be screwed.... you will be...
 
usually, if you have more than 5-6 punctures on tubeless tyres, you change the tyre...
 
Technically, a tubeless tyre can still make you to the destination with a puncture. I realized there was a puncture after many days, when the air filling station guy said it to me. The last time I repaired it at home, drove with out air to station and got it filled. No need to carry the pump.

I think the whole idea of these tires is to not to stop you even with zero air.
 
thenvk said:
Technically, a tubeless tyre can still make you to the destination with a puncture. I realized there was a puncture after many days, when the air filling station guy said it to me. The last time I repaired it at home, drove with out air to station and got it filled. No need to carry the pump.

I think the whole idea of these tires is to not to stop you even with zero air.
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Yup that true.

My friend who is an avid traveler and skilled driver was unaware about 2 punctures in his Scorpio front tyres that went unnoticed until on Mumbai-kolhapur highway he refueled at a gas station and the air filler guy told him that the tyre is punctured. Still he drove around 200kms further towards his destination but at reduced speeds of around 80kmph and finally got it repaired the next morning. Bizarre but truely frightening....i wont think of taking such risks. :nailbiting: :doctor:

He did say that it is one of the features of getting a tubeless. Unless it runs fully flat you can drive.
 
^ no big deal.

one of my friends car has a puncture for last couple of months and instead of getting it repaired he keeps on getting it air filled more often whenever the interior automatic air pressure check alerts him for low air pressure.
 
The puncture repair wallas (mostly found at petrol pumps) have formed a union and set rates to charge customers exorbitantly. The mechanics say cost of R.M. and labor are not more than 40 rs...so do you have an option? apart from self help kits, none.
 
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