Experiences with glue tread tire repair?

Wondering if anyone has any experience with the glue tread tire repair kit? Supposedly a good enough kit to not carry your spare tire while off road. Would love to free up the space in the back of my bed but seems too good to be true. Didn’t find any specific thread on this so thought I would put one out there for anyone if they have ran it before.

 

I would not recommend going off road without a spare tire period. If your seriouse about off roading I would think at least two spares.
This is a interesting idea, its basically a patch for the exterior sidewall. If the cut occurs on a not flat section of the sidewall your screwed. I feel like it shouldn't be used for on road driving since the sidewall is damaged drastically increasing the risk of a blow out

 

this looks to me like one of those things that would be helpful to carry with a spare.

blow a tire, swap the spare in--to keep moving and clear the trail, then later on after setting up camp in a safe area, the blown tire can be potentially repaired enough to now become the spare.

 

I wouldn’t ditch my spare, not all flats are repairable.

 

Offroading = take a spare.

Daily but around town = I ditch my spare to save weight.

I carry a compressor, plug kit, can of fix a flat and I have the side wall kit as well.

 

I used the kit to patch my DS rear tire. I had a rough 1" slit in the sidewall. I was able to air it up to 33 and drive it for a week. I was due for new tires and just replaced them yesterday. It still had 33 psi when I dropped the tire at the shop to get replaced. The 5-pack of adhesives that came with it was rock solid so I ended up using super glue and it held fine. I had lost 2 tires so I used a spare on one and this patch on the other. I'll keep this in the bag but I also do have a spare as the 1st option.

 

Going anywhere without a spare is not the way to roll

 

I carry a plug kit plus a spare. Rule of redundancy, a plug will allow me to continue with the trip, a spare will allow me to drive straight to the nearest tire shop.

 

Yeah, I cut a tire recently on a trip that brought me over shrapnel serpentine rock laced with asbestos, mercury, nickel, you name it …Changing the tire wasn’t the healthy option. Plug took 15 minutes including air time. And yes, we finished the trip with the plug.

 

As others have said, always carry a spare and if serious off roading carry 2 spares. You can carry the glue shit in addition to the spares. The glue shit is only for an emergency when you have no alternative.

 

maybe i'm just unluckier than most, but nearly all of my tire blowout's, even when i/we can get off the road as fast as possible, have always resulted in major delamination of the tire, to the point that a ratchet strap holds air better than the tire would.

so while i can see a point of a kit like this, it's entirely useless for all of the past blowout's i've been in a vehicle to have experienced.