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Found a dreaded self tapper in one of my rear tyres :sad:

Was wondering if I'm best to replace them as a pair or will I get away with just changing the holed one? They're Bridgestone Potenza's and all four tyres have around 1500 miles on them...

Thoughts/advice appreciated! :thumbs:
 
If in the middle of the tread pattern and it hasn't sat on in while pancaked then you could probably have it repaired.

Otherwise you can probably replace just the one, but someone should put a depth gauge on the tyre on the same axle that you are keeping to confirm that those 1500 miles haven't worn it down much. Essentially - if the tread depths are similar and they haven't been heat cycled on a track it should be fine to attend to just one corner IMHO.
 
I did think about getting it repaired but to be honest that would always be on my mind when I'm giving it a bit of stick on the B roads!

There's been no track use and the wear is pretty even so think I'll just go with replacing the one, thanks for your thoughts!
 
If the remaining tyres were not too worn (unless it has been a hard 1500 miles!) then I would swap the offending tyre.
 
New tyres for this is nuts! There are tyre specialist who can get these Vulcanised for £40 or so and they are just as good as new.

Of course you can drink the tyre specialist cool aid that says only a new tyre is good enough, but really.....
 
The official guidance is that tyres must be within 25% wear of each other, it sounds like you are within this so a new single tyre is fine.

But its also fine to repair as long as its in the middle 75% of the tyre and not on the edge. This is not going to let go on you, as long as it is done professionally, and even still if it did under some bizarre condition its not to going to blow out on you.
 
Thanks Chris, didn't know official guidance was 25% of each other, I'm well within that. Anyway new Bridgestone is fitted at a cost of £236, so happy with that!
 
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