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No matter how often you check tyres for nails, etc., you won't spot them if the car is sitting on it. Jacking it up to turn the wheels is not going to happen weekly is it. I'd rather see the soft tyre than have some goo mask it from me. But that's just my choice.
I have no problem with the goo masking a nail in the tyre. Sooner or later I'll see it and pull it out. The goo seals the hole and its all good. As said, I had an M6 bolt through a tyre. The goo sealed it fine but I took it for repair. The tyre tech said it would have been fine without a professional repair.
But had that bolt been in a non treated tyre, what happens when it gets dangerously under inflated at speed? Tyres can go for a long way at speed before the driver realises there's a problem. By then they are in real trouble.
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