Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:23:10 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cross Country Travel Tips Wanted
Comments: To: Rob <becida@comcast.net>
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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
>>
>