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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$20 to jack the car up, take the wheel off, pull the valve body out of the tire, pull the tire off the rim, patch the tire from the inside, put the tire back on the rim, put in a new valve stem, re-inflate the tire, re-balance it, and put it back on the vehicle?

You couldn't do that stuff if your very life depended on it.

But you think $20 is too much.....

JFC, get over yourself.

If I was the mechanic and you balked at $20, I would've immediately told you $40 instead. [/quote]

I just had this done for a nail and he didn't take off my wheel or tire, he did it while I sat in the car in like literally 40 seconds.[/quote]

Then it wasn't done properly.

A puncture *should* be patched from the inside, with a patch and vulcanizing rubber cement. This requires removing the tire from the rim, then rebalancing the wheel after the repair.

It sounds like your "mechanic" only installed a temporary plug. It could pop out or develop a slow leak. Or both. At any rate, it wasn't the correct repair.  [/quote]

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