was told by my tire shop they can't patch because its to close to the sidewall this wondering if a plug would work, new tire in the 400 range

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You didnt buy the road hazard on your tires when you bought them? If you had then they would be replacing the tire for free. Thats what they have done for me in the past anyways. But anyways yeah a plug might work. Try it out and see what happens. Best of luck man.

 

you can always try, btw when taking a tire to a shop use the thumb rule, if the nail or screw is a thumb width away from the sidewall they will usually patch it

 

I've done tires for a LONG time, that can be fixed. I'd just plug it, if you don't want to do that find a place that still dismounts the tire and have them use a inside the tire radial patch! it covers the area about 2 inches each way. I'd just plug it like I said, then make sure you just keep it on the back.

I bout a new truck in 95, took it for a trip up in the hills and with only 43 miles on the truck a rock sliced one of my tires open... I mean big enough that it was flat in about 3 feet! Same area as your, but not just a hole... a slice. I patched it myself using the large radial patch and used that tire till about 35,000 miles till I went up to 33's from the stock 265's

Use a radial plug

 

yeah that can be patched. i think the shop is hoping you just buy another tire.

 

I recently had a nail in my tire in the same area as yours. I did not think the tire shop would be able to patch it but they did. They stretched the tire and patched it. On my F150 I had plugged a hole near the edge & it worked. Good with your repair~

 

I'd be furious of that happened to me if I had those M/Ts. But yes that can be plugged.

 

I agree. A plug or a patch will work.

 

i was waiting for you to chime in maybe I'll try another shop, a patch is better then a plug?

 

patch is permanent, plug will eventually leak, and has the risk of popping out.

My vote is if you repair it, only repair it by patch.