Skill building. I need to replace these tires, but since one of them already had a self tapping screw stuck in it I wanted to use this as a chance to practice patching/plugging a hole for when we’re out in the middle of nowhere. Guess I need to add needle-nose pliers to my emergency roadside kit because the normal pliers were not cutting it. This screw went into the tire diagonally and had been worn down flat, making it difficult to grab. The pictures here have text to them describing what was done, but this will not be a permanent fix. This is just something I wanted to get better at because it seems we end up picking up nails, screws, or other hardware in the tires every year. Largely because lots of people seem to burn scrap wood in primitive camping locations, which leaves behind all the meta crap in them. Please don’t do that, it’s shitty for the environment and causes shit like this to happen to other people.
