🔧Tire Repair Kit

A tire repair kit lets you fix a tread puncture — nail, screw, drywall anchor — without pulling the wheel off and hauling it to a shop. Standard contents: a T-handle reamer to clean and roughen the hole, an insertion tool, a stack of sticky rope plugs, and rubber cement. Five minutes on the side of the road and a slow leak becomes a non-issue. Plugs are not a permanent fix on sidewall damage or anything near the shoulder — those need an interior patch from a shop or a new tire. Treat a rope plug as get-home insurance, not a final repair.