Tires—sometimes even the best go flat, especially when you use your 4x4 off-road or on back roads. We recently picked up a 4-inch lag bolt in one of ours, and when it came time to fix the leak we ...

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. We’ve all had that tire that constantly needs air. It’s time to stop ...

Flat tires happen so often, they're practically an inevitability for the millions of American drivers out there on the road. If you break down the math on the 220 million flats reported a year on ...

Plugging and patching a tire leak should never be your first option for repair, but if you're going to do it, we can help make sure you're pointed in the right direction. Here's a list of everything ...

Sure anyone can use a can of Fix-A-Flat to quickly get them back on the road but you'll mostly likely have to replace the tire instead of patching and repairing it. Instead consider learning to use a ...

Nails, screws, and glass—there’s lots of stuff lurking on the street just waiting to stab a hole in your tire and send you scurrying for the breakdown lane. If you’re well prepared, however, “catching ...

Considering that many cars no longer come standard with spares, a tire plug kit is a good thing to have in your roadside emergency kit. It's a fast, cheap way to seal a puncture from the outside of ...

A funny thing happened last week as I was preparing to write about flat tires: I got one myself. Fortunately, I had a small "donut" spare and was able to put it on the car. But many new cars are being ...

There's nothing quite like that slow, sinking feeling when your tire pressure warning light blinks on, or worse, when you actually hear the thump-thump-thump of a flat tire. The most annoying way we ...