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Yeah over the weekend I barely lost any air when parked, when driving was when the car flagged pressure loss.
I watched the guy plug the tyre this morning and its quite a "rustic" process. It's what lead me to believe it wasn't a permanent solution.
Am booked in for a new tyre tomorrow - I don't really drive but when I do its for long journeys and I don't want to risk it for those more significant journeys.
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Just for future in case anyone is interested. I had a small bolt in my tyre (M5ish), plugged with a super cheap amazon kit (like a tubeless repair kit) as it was near sidewall and they would have wrote the tyre off. Over 12months and it hasn't lost any pressure at all. I can recommend them from experience.
Tom13
As above Plugs are not recommended solutions (you can't really even buy them easily in the UK unless eBay or amazon etc) but they can work indefinitely. Your local tyre dudes will either fix it properly with an internal patch or tell you to get new tyre(s).
If your local tyre dudes are any of the big cos. they will probably push you towards spending more and more money. A small local repair shop are more likely to be wallet friendly. in my limited experience anyhoo.
FWIW a bigger screw, driven in with a driver will form a good enough plug to get you to the tyre dudes. How ironic.