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by tgrass 5036 days ago
Each of the tires on my old Chevy at one point had over a dozen plugs. Each plug lasted several years.

The beauty of a plug is the kit is five bucks, comes with about a dozen plugs and you can use it anywhere. Get a thirty five dollar compressor to run off your battery and you can fix a puncture by yourself in the middle of nowhere. Not so with a patch.

But then I also won't drive more than twenty miles from my house without a toolbox...so....

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So you're driving around on a public road (presumably) on tires that have been damaged and repaired 12 or more times.

Oooooookay. Thanks for the heads-up.

That was in back country Alaska (note the past-perfect tense). Every man for himself and all that.