How to Plug a Leaky Tire

Find the Leak

• Pump enough air into the tire to fill it out and make it firm to finger pressure.
• Examine the tire closely to find the leak. There’s no need to remove the wheel from the vehicle for this, but you will find it handy to lift the vehicle up with a car jack to take the weight off the tire and allow it to be rotated.
• Spray the tire methodically with a spray bottle containing a mixture of 20 percent soap and 80 percent water, if the location of the leak isn’t obvious. Constant bubbles indicate the location of the leak.
• Use pliers to pull out any nail, screw, staple or stray metal that has caused the leak.

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