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Show Tire Repairs Should Be Made Permanent Cures Amateur tire patching ruins thou- sands of automobile tires each year. I It is a common practice among auto-! auto-! mobile owners when receiving a cut or puncture in a tire to insert a patch on the inside of the casing at the point of injury, thinking that the damage is permanently repaired. Such a repair will In time ruin any tire. It is good practice to apply patches in such cases, but a tire sleeve should always be placed on the outside of the tire opposite the patched portion ' at the same time. The sleeve serves j to bind the tire, hold the torn and injured in-jured parts of the fabric in place and j prevent further dialing and rupture. I .The tire sleeve and patch are mere-I mere-I ly "first aid" appliances and should I removed at tho earliest possible moment. It will pay motorists to drive to the nearest repair man immediately im-mediately af'.er the injury occurs. If allowed to run without repair, every time the wheel makes a revolution the tire quickens its pace toward the scrap heap. |