Upon backing out of my parking space at the apartment complex that I'm temporarily living in I noticed a pronounced "thump...thump....thump" noise. It sounded like something lodged in my tire. I stopped and got out to find....much to my horror.....I nice big paneling screw jammed to the head in my 2 week old BFG KDW2 tire up front on the passenger side.



I'm almost convinced, since this is the second time in the last month and a half that something metal mysteriously got lodged in my front tires while at the apartment, that this may be the work of a sick vandal in the complex. There are a couple of performance car wannabes that live in the complex and hang out together (none of which seem to have any love of mustangs), so I'm not sure if I may have inadvertedly intimidated one of them with my black 05 GT. But regardless......how or why this has happened to me twice is irrelevant.



The screw I pulled out of the tire is was stuck about 1/2 inch into one of the inner most treads of the tire....and of course, now I have a slow leak. What I'm curious about is whether anyone in here has ever had one of these tires repaired, patched, or plugged before. A neighbor of mine told me that some shops don't like to repair tires like these KDW2's. I'm just wondering whether any of the tire gurus on this forum believe I have a fixable problem..........or should I start thinking about hitting Tire Rack for a replacement?

 

Two weeks old.
Is there any warrantee on the tires?

I can fix standard radial tires with
a string patch, but as the more
expensive the tire the less likely
a simple solution is guaranteed to
work and keep the same performance
rating.

I guess you can make a few call around
to tire shops.

 

You can probably get a good repair if the shop fixes it from the INSIDE of the tire.

 

If you can't feel belt material on the inside of the tire (steel wire) I would have it plugged and patched then run it on the rear.
If you can feel steel wires on the inside you can still run the tire but I personally wouldn't run it at high speed.(>100 mph)

 

Well I couldn't get Road Hazard for these tires because I ran a staggered setup (255's up front and 285's out back). I also can't run the punctured tire on the back because of this. I'm gonna bring the tire to the shop that mounted them for me and let them inspect the tire off the rim. If they aren't confident about the repair for high performance duty then I'm ordering a new tire.