A Brief History of Tyre Sealants

Tyre sealants have been around since the mid-1970's; but the technology remained flawed until the launch of Tyresafe in 1995.

Unlike its predecessors, Tyresafe is advanced technology. It uses a clever mixture of natural organic rubber, water and other naturally occurring non-toxic, biodegradable chemicals to provide a powerful, safe, and permanent puncture sealing compound.

Why other Products are Flawed

Tyresafe is unlike most other tyre sealant products - which contain hazardous materials. These range from asbestos, acids, organic fibres, and flammable liquids, to plainly toxic materials. Labelling on most of these products clearly indicates these hazards.

These products have a poor reputation in the marketplace due to their unfortunate side effects, including:

• They are for the most part flammable.
• They cause environmental problems when disposed of before and after use.
• Many cause oxidisation inside the tyres, and rust the wheels concerned.
• They solidify due to centrifugal forces and torque, since the fibres they contain twist and contort into a solid mass of product which then revolves around inside the tyre.
• They contain versions of anti-freeze compounds, which are both flammable and toxic.
• The fibres used are very often plastics of one kind or another, and these again bind and ball up when subjected to centrifugal force and torque under acceleration.
• They invariably cause wheel imbalance.
• Many freeze, over liquify, or dry out completely, depending on temperature variations.
• They fail to seal holes over 5/6 mm.
• They fail at random and are not permanent.
• Tyre manufacturers void warranty if some of them are used.

These failings have become common knowledge in the automobile industry and in large commercial operations in general. Not surprisingly, the general belief is that sealants do not work.

Tyresafe is radically different

The development of Tyresafe has finally proved that when proper and rigid R&D is allied to a quality assured manufacturing approach, then at least one tyre sealant does work. And work extremely well - as tests show.