How To Fix A Punctured Car

When we walk around the city or when we go on a trip with the family, it is always good to be prepared to resolve any incident. On the roads and everywhere our cars travel. We always find materials that are enemies of our tires.

These materials are usually nails, wires, screws, glass, rods, among others that are  penetrating and can pierce the material of car tires. This happens when we step on them, and the weight of our cars causes them to penetrate until they puncture them and throw air out of the tire.

For this reason, it is extremely important to have a tire puncture repair kit in our car,  and a 12-volt portable compressor. These air compressors are very good since they work with the voltage of your car’s battery.

And the repair kit offers you tools that are very comfortable and easy to use to repair your tire puncture. Since on some occasions the spare tire that your car brings loses air through the flange. This happens a lot to the spare tire. On the other hand, many of us do not even carry the spare tire in our cars.

With this puncture repair kit, you can get your car rolling in just a few minutes. Being a great tool since if you go on a trip and the road is very long, where the service stations are at a great distance. You can easily resolve this situation yourself.

It is so simple that it is not even necessary to remove the tire from the car, to make the repair. Only with the compressor do you fill your tire with air, and by passing your hand over the tread you will feel the leak of air under pressure.

Next, we will give you the techniques and procedures so that you can repair your tire from any puncture you suffer on the road.

Instructions to fix a punctured car

1. When you feel that your car has a puncture, you should immediately try to find a safe place to do the repair.
2. This is why if you park in the middle of the road, you can cause an accident with cars speeding down the tracks.
3. After you are in a safe place, you must take out your safety triangle and place it in a visible place so that other cars can see it.
4. If you do not have a safety triangle, or red cones, to indicate on the road that you are in an accident repairing the puncture?
5. You can cut some branches from a nearby tree, and place them behind the car on the road a few meters away so that they can see you.
6. If you can’t get branches you can use some rocks to place them behind your car and make the.
7. Turn on the flashing lights of the car, we recommend that you open the hood and the suitcase, so that the car can be seen more on the road.
8. After you’re safely on the road, get out your portable compressor and start filling the tire with air.
9. When you are filling the tire with air, begin to gently run your hand along the tread of the tire.
10. This is so you can identify the air leak, and know where to repair the tire.
11. If you don’t feel the air leak, it’s because the nail or screw that punctured it is still in the hole.
12. Lay down on the ground and check the tread on the side you are on.
13. If the screw or nail that is embedded in it is not visible on that side, move the car forward a little more.
14. Subsequently, after you identify the object that penetrated the tire tread, proceed to remove it with a tweezer.
15. Now having the hole for the band located, take out the tire repair kit.
16. This kit has two fundamental tools, the first is a round file with a very fine tip.
17. You must introduce this through the small hole, where the air comes out of the tire.
18. In such a way that you make the hole a little thicker, and the surface where the air comes out is cleaned.
19. You must give it a movement in and out, more or less 3 to 4 times.
20. Later, in the tire repair kit, there is another tool, which looks like the eye of a needle at the tip.
21. This tool is taken and a cylindrical and elongated piece of rubber is passed through the tip, as when we thread a sewing needle.
22. This flexible material is what will seal the hole to prevent air from escaping from the tires.
23. In such a way, that you introduce the material through the hole in the rim; with your indicated tool.
24. After the material is inside the rim, with the tool you give it a small turn to the right  to accommodate the rubber.
25. Finally, slowly remove the needle-shaped tool and you will see that the rubber remains inside.
26. The two ends of the sealing rubber, which remains on the outside; can be cut with a blade or
27. After this procedure begin to fill the tire with air using a portable 12 volt compressor.
28. Finally, check that it does not blow air, for this we recommend a little soapy water; in the repaired area.
29. If you apply the soapy water, and you don’t see any bubbles growing; it is because the tire is ready to continue rolling on the road.

What do you need to fix a car puncture?

• Safety triangle or red cones.
• Tire repair kit.
• Portable air compressor.
• Water and liquid soap.
• Tweezers.
• Scissors.
• Shoe glue.
• Tire casing.
•  Car jack.

Tips to fix a punctured car

1. We recommend that you have a good lamp or flashlight in your car, this is because sometimes these incidents usually happen at night.
2. It is advisable to always have a container with clean water in your car, for any emergency, and to wash your hands after repairing the tire.
3. Before leaving on a trip, we recommend that you verify that you have the tire repair kit in your car.
4. Check that your portable compressor is in good condition and ready to work.
5. Check the spare tire, that it has air and is in good condition, since it has happened that you have a flat tire, and two kilometers later another one is punctured.
6. Therefore, the tire repair kit is of vital importance, on the other hand you must also have a jack for your car in good condition.
7. If you get a puncture and you don’t have the tools from the tire repair kit in your car; you can solve with a piece of rubber gut.
8. You take the tirecasing and cut it out, like a 10 centimeter long strip.
9. With a width of 2 millimeters more or less; later, you remove the nail or screw from the rim.
10. You add a little shoe glue to the rubber gut tape.
11. Then, through the hole, you introduce the tape made with tire gut; with a thin bladed screwdriver.
12. In such a way that, in the middle of the tape, it remains inside the rim; and the tips that remain on the outside are trimmed, so that they are flush with the surface.
13. For this technique, we recommend having a pair of scissors and a flathead screwdriver in your car.
14. Also, a piece of tire casing,to make the material that will seal the air leak from the tires.