Steel winter wheels - puncture and sand!

[Degudodger]

Collected some steel winter wheels this morning, even with the 300 mile round trip they are an absolute bargain!

Two things. The guy i bought the wheels from ran them for one winter (was stationed in Germany) but they are ABSOLUTELY caked in sand/salt, even after a couple of hours spent with a liberal coating of wheel cleaner and a scrubbing brush i have only been able to remove a tiny amount.

The best wheel - what can i use to remove the rest of the sand?


Can this puncture be repaired - it's JUST on the corner of the tread so i'm not sure 

[Viking]

That doesn't look like sand mate. That's rust where the paint has gone, and the wheels are corroding.

The puncture is within the area which can't be repaired with the plug method (unless you have a friendly tyre repair man), but you could have a "major repair" done which will fix it.

[Scottymon]

They are a good tyre the Ultragrip Performance 2, as above though that's surface rust, rub it down and paint it imo.

[Andy]

That doesn't look like sand mate. That's rust where the paint has gone, and the wheels are corroding.

The puncture is within the area which can't be repaired with the plug method (unless you have a friendly tyre repair man), but you could have a "major repair" done which will fix it.

Don't know any

[Degudodger]

The red stuff is mostly sand/salt, there is some rust but the majority is hard crusty stuff.

I take a Major Repair is a tyre readjustment at speed?

I REALLLLYYYY don't want to change the tyre but if i have to i will. The wheels where cheap and are in good condition apart from the crusty on the back of two of the four wheels which were on the rear.

[Andy]

A major repair is where a a patch is vulcanised instead of glued to the inside of the tyre

[Viking]

The red stuff is mostly sand/salt, there is some rust but the majority is hard crusty stuff.

If you say so, but from the picture you've shown I would say that the wheels are rusty. 

As Maxitrol says, major repair is usually reserved for agricultural stuff/heavy plant, where the cost of a repair is worthwhile vs a new tyre. There's a place near me who do them for farmers etc. and I've had one done before by a firm in Bingley.

[Degudodger]

There is rust but most of the stuff in the photo will with pressure behind it come off in little sections leaving paint work beneath. I'll take some better photos tomorrow :)

Looks like its a new tyre then 

[Markyed30]

Got one like that in a brand new ps2 tyre a month after getting my ed30 tyre weld held it fine till it was baldy