• Anyone got any form of tubeless sealant in their tyres? Have a set of new tyres that now leak steadily through the wheel itself. So need refurb'd but don't have time till end of the month.

    Tyre shop put some magic sealant in (gonna be tractor tyre sealant I imagine!). Great slow leak is stopped. But now have quite bad steering wheel shake when accelerating from 60-xx. Basically any harder acceleration above 60 gets quite bad, until speed reduced a bit, then accelerate again a little more gentle. Thought it was maybe CV shaft had gone but just had a feel and they are still spot on.

    Sealant doing weird dances inside the tyre? Zero idea how much they put in.

  • Ask the tyre shop to check the balancing on the offending tyre(s) as they appear to have caused an issue. It may just be that the tyres have to warm up properly to spread the sealant around the inside of the tyre. It may have pooled in what was the bottom of the tyres and due to the cold weather is reluctant to disperse. I am not a tyre expert.

  • Haha I don't think its either of those. I think its literally sloshing at those speed/acceleration and going out of balance. Increasing speed more gradual upto xxx it behaves normally.

    The real fix is going to be refurb all the wheels, but means a trip to Yorkshire (5 hours each way), and TBH don't have time. None of the wheel refurb spots near me appear to be able to operate basic tools like tyre levers/tyre machine without breaking everything, everytime.

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