Tire won't hold air?? By trailheadmike (Read 2,285 times)

[trailheadmike]

Hello all, and happy new year. I have not posted in a long while because thanks to you all I'm over 13,000 trouble free miles (or at least 13,000 miles that are within my ability to fix).

So after nearly 13,000 on my rock hard Chinese front tire it was all cupped so I put on a new Shinko SR429. I had had the back tire mounted with the same tire a while ago, but this time I went to the local honda dealer because he was closer to me (and cheaper). He mounted the tire but it would not hold air and leaked at the rim. There was a dent in the rim, but I could not understand why the chinese tire seemed to sit fine on the same rim.

I got a new front rim and this time mounted the tire myself. Sure enough, the tire leaks at the new rim also. My guess now is that it is either a bad tire or the guy at the honda place damaged the tire. I ordered a new tire and will have it mounted by my old guy and see what happens.

I was wondering if anyone had ever gotten a "bad" tire because it did not seem likely to me. I could have bent the new rim when I put the tire on with the tire spoons i guess (wow was that hard) but I don't see it and it just seemed unlikely that it would leak on both rims.

Thanks all!!!

-Mike

[jct842]

Clean the rim and use lube. one of the best lubes for mounting tires in windex! Also quite often if the tire is inflated slow with a home compressor it will not seat right, but those air hoses that the tire companies use fill way faster and you do not put the valve in the stem when seating the bead. You might rough up the tire where it hits the rim too.

I have never ever had a problem with a good tire, shinko is not a top of line tire.

[cyborg]

A hot tire will follow the profile of a bent rim edge better than a cold one try heating the tire (i mean really hot not warm),,,that should do it,,,if not than rim replacement is one way ,,or geta pro to straighten it,,,or use a tube if the stem will fit thru the rim