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Originally Posted by paulrstaylor
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This technology - essentially a foam inner - is the same as used in Contisilents, who state (for their tyres) that puncture repairs aren't possible, and my experience is that this can be done, but it's a lot trickier, and often not worth doing.
Essentially, the repairer has to:
(a) find the hole (under the foam inner),
(b) cut away the foam over that area,
(c) fix the puncture, and
(d) then re-cover the puncture area with the foam.
All of which takes time - and probably costs more - and I've been told by Kwikfit/National/others that repairing like this can cause the tyre/wheel to be become more unstable than the original tyre. For all of these reasons, I'm unlikely to refit Contisilents when I replace these shortly, but likely to go for Michelins instead, and put up with the increased noise.
See here also for a thread on this topic on the RS forum
https://forum.rs246.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=116073