A punctured tire used to mean lost time, a tow, or an expensive visit to the tire shop. For everyday drivers, that frust ...

Question: Yesterday I noticed my right front tire was low on air. I drove it really slowly to the service station just down the street from my home and the fellow installed a “plug” in the tire. It ...

Tires—sometimes even the best go flat, especially when you use your 4x4 off-road or on back roads. We recently picked up a 4-inch lag bolt in one of ours, and when it came time to fix the leak we ...

Considering that many cars no longer come standard with spares, a tire plug kit is a good thing to have in your roadside emergency kit. It's a fast, cheap way to seal a puncture from the outside of ...

Dear Tom and Ray: Whenever I find a pesky nail in my tire, I take it to a service station or tire store and have them "plug" it. A friend of mine told me I should have an internal "patch" installed ...