I did a repair in a tire outside of the usual tire repair repertoire. I noticed my rear driver tire was losing air pressure. I pumped it up and over the course of a week it went down again. I pumped it up and decided the next time I would try to find the leak, as I could find no screw or nail in the tread. A week or so goes by and the tire is getting soft again and I remember finding one of those pins that have the "T" top stuck into the tire a little while back, but it didn't strike me as a problem.

I took the tire off and put some dawn cleaner in a bucket with water and started scrubbing the tread to see if there were any bubbles.... Nothing. I scrubbled the sidewalls and saw nothing. I went back and scrubbled it again and went about doing something else for a bit and turned back and saw a big bubble. Ah hah! Found it. The hole left by the pin in the side wall. I trucked myself down to Toyota to let them know my tire was leaking and asked to have them get me a new tire on my tires for life contract. So sorry, I did not buy the tire hazard, so I would have to buy the tire myself. $155 at the dealer and I don't trust them. So, now I go to the little local shop hoping he can put a patch on the sidewall... NOPE! Not going to do it.



SO now I have a tire that leaks that is basically a good, relatively new tire with a pinhole in the sidewall. All it needs is a smear over the hole on the inside and the leak will stop. So I noodled a bit and thought if I could get one of those little syringes and inject two part epoxy into the hole, it should solve my problem. I order a collection of syringes with blunt tips from ebay. I decided the best way would be to flatten the tire and then slide the needle up the hole and push the plunger on the way back out of the hole. I gave a little squirt as I pushed the needle in and the needle just slid in through the existing hole. I squeezed the epoxy on the way back through and screwed off for and hour or so. I went back and pumped up the tire and it seems to have solved the problem. Whoo hoo!