Yeah, I never heard the "explosive-flamable..blow up workers..burn up workers" allegation either. I don't see how the Feds would let something like that be widely sold. If you had a blowout with Fix a Flat (and I am sure many of these have occured) wouldn't the wheel rim, sparking on the pavement' cause a big explosion if indeed it was highly flamable? Never heard of any 'grenading flat tire" incidents, either. It is messy. I've never had a tire changer turn down the work of changing a tire because of it though...and I tell em up front about any tire I've used that stuff in. Don Hanson On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote: > 5 years at a front end shop and I've dealt with a lot's of fix-a-flat > tires. Never had one blow up, never even heard that story before but > that crap is messy to deal with. > > Rob > becida@comcast.net > > > At 4/16/2009 05:27 PM, Allan Streib wrote: > > The problem with Fix-A-Flat and similar products is that some tire shops >> will refuse to touch your wheels because the stuff is explosively >> flamable and tire shop techs have been seriously injured removing tires >> that are full of Fix-A-Flat. >> >> Allan >> > |
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