Once you pop you got to stop!

So just picked up a Tyre Repair Kit its the standard jobbie, but what i wanted to know is what other things do people have that would be worth adding?

Kit includes:

• 1x Red storage case
• 1x Insertion needle
• 1x Screwdriver probe
• 20x Quick seal insert strips
• 1x Tube of lubricating oil
• 1x Allen key
• 1x Valve tool
• 3x Valve housing
• 4x Valve cores
• 4x valve caps
• 1x Small knife
• 5x Tube repair patch
• 1x Tube of rubber cement
• 1x Scraping tool (Not shown in image)
• 2x Thin rubber Tube (Not shown in image)

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We can leave the air compressor of the list that is a given! Just looking for the additions for your Tyre Repair Kit, I'd let it slip over to tools like bead breaker and levers if you have them in your kits. :)

A decent rachett strap to help re seat tyres that come adrift
or a BMX 20" tube will do the same if you have a burst of air

Hi Threedogs - Do you have bead breaker and levers?

I have tyre levers but rarely take them on any trips, I have just brought a horse of a compressor
and a few plug kits like you have, the plug kits stay in the car.
A few valve stems might be handy as on a recent trip a mate had leaky valve stems on his trailer
Buy short rubber ones as you have less chance of them catching sticks and rock out on the tracks

Thanks I'll add short valve stems to the list. :)

maybe some detergent concentrate, these are items for long trips.
I wouldnt worry if it was only a weekend away
my mates valve stems werent leaking more perished and cracked causing them to leak.
We fixed that in Shep with some "super glue" funny how the mind works sometimes lol

I have a head breaker and levers but only carry it when outback touring as I carry a second spare tyre Off the rim to save weight. A HD inner tube is a winner also for Outback. A couple of decent Vulcanising patches can be a savior also combined with the tube for an emergency side wall repair.

Most of the time a simple Tyre Plug kit like you have all get you out of trouble. I generally plug a tyre without even removing it from the car.

Remote trips I'd be throwing in pliers and a tyre tube.
As good as a second spare.
I also use the pliers at home.
Mind you I picked mine up for $20.. Bargin. .
Paid for them selves when putting caravan tyres on rims.

Are you putting together a list for outback travel or
just building up some gear for a future trip ??

Those kits work well. Only used it once, but is saved us having to change the tyre

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Originally Posted by threedogs

Are you putting together a list for outback travel or
just building up some gear for a future trip ??

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I'm just building up gear and outback is on the cards so I'll start off with the basics and build. :)

Add this to your list if you haven't done it before - actually knowing how to do it. For all the video's and stuff you might watch, you just don't learn something until you need to do it - so better off having a practice at home on a sunday arvo than stuck on the oodnadatta on a 40c day. Go to a wrecker, you can normally pickup a shitty rim and tyre for $20, put a small hole in it and go from there. Also gives you an idea of the force required to get a tyre on/off the rim..

A little trick I was taught in Tassie a while back, if you have another car, let the air out and take out the valve, then drive over the tyre as close to the rim as you can without hitting it. Not ideal, but we didn't have a choice at the time (and that sucker just didn't wanna come off)!