Hi, My General opinion here with some nighttime rattle!
Don’t worry, I usually stay on the 240 tab!

This thread hits on many issues!

I agree with yo, why not use a plug?
I thought they were invented for radial tires! Back then, some were made of a neoprene looking rubber with a mushroom head but they gave away to better systems and glues.

NAPA still sells a kit that I have had for 40 years! It’s taking me that long to catch about ten plus nails.
It has the fibrous cord that flexible and that’s very sticky. It’s come with glue and hand tools and all!
Possible to make repairs right on the car!
I can still purchase the glue and plugs separately, so they must have worked well enough for them to carry them this long!

I have seen very thin patches put inside tires called “boots in the old days.”
Even more flexible so it would be worth a try.
Today’s tires are very low profile in the sidewalls and have so much more pressure, about ten pounds more, to keep sidewalls stiffer.
Hard tire, sticky rubber, meets harder road! Spells wear to me, Hello?

I don’t see a boot moving all that much more than on a higher profile tire or maybe even less?
Maybe the tighter radius inside is an issue? Who do you believe anymore?
The tire still has to be stable enough to drive.

You know, we are talking about a “air way” passage between cords. That’s pretty small without a nail wedge!
A soft sealing wedge replacement seems plausible no matter the profile and it looks to be in tread still. A close call?
Low profile tires are like rubber bands stretched on!
Reminds me of forklifts that are pressed on. They ride very hard up too about 20 mph! (:)
Almost like a solid rubber or plastic tires, on a kids tricycle.
You get that harder stiffer, “feel the road,” response, that’s not needed for the average Joe or Jane drivers and besides, who’s going to be into “course” racing!

Back to those repairs,
Today’s adhesives are far better than anything they used on boots back then and yet they worked. Wasn’t that long ago I saw some in a tire shop. So, it depends on a companies protocols or their management quotas and a customers profile being exhibited! Try being a woman, it is worse!

You have the “big wheel look,” as you see them before you can the cars body or a makers badge!
Many cars are so look-a-like, especially SUV’s, you have to think to ask yourself, what make was that anyway?
Off roading, in low profile tires, doesn’t make sense in repetitive commercials?
But you supposed to see it so much, you begin to believe its OK!

Tire and car manufacturers put these items together, with little mentioning of an after cost.
Like you said, it’s a short way down the road to cost more.
It’s “consumers beware” and is a blatant disservice.
But hey, it a America!

I want to say, their idea is, “keep the “ball of money” in marketing and “rolling it in!”
The car manufacturers get great deals on both, because the tire people have got a solid return business coming along with some “open ended dollar signs! It’s going on with all these “comeback to me” industries in today’s cars.

Any High Speed rated tires are more expensive, because they can be!
On exotic cars they can start at over a $1000 each easily!
Where they drive these is not on any highways that I use to everywhere.
Besides, some of that cost is for liability insurance against tire separation than an exotic car!
Remember it’s still a 3/4” (?) rubber belting against the real world out there!
Like you, I never want to be too rich to not care about real quality.
A lot of variety over Subarus in the games we play!

These big rims for a mass produced car, along with lesser speed rating tires are still an over sell to the general public.
Do you want or need speeding ticket or just safe set of tires? I say the latter! Tires are like batteries, most of the time you get what you pay for, due to the numbers on demand in front of competitors!

Next thing is to scrap your rims and go to a size that’s more abundantly sold. You may get more useful tread designs and compositions!
It’s a quandary at our ages, to spend or not to spend? We have what we have due to our early choices and habits acquired!

I remember this instance.
Ford, did a trick on pickups by making a special sized bolt hole pattern for only a year or two!
That made my young neighbor get rid of a truck.
He wanted different rims and a look!
He was locked out on selections, of which, frustrated him. Off it went, because his mother left life insurance.

Definition of, Too Easy of a Life Style is ....
A throw away craziness overcomes an appreciable value of one’s true needs!

An adages like,
Remember, it’s a gift to ride over walking.
Keep good shoes on both you and your horse!
(:-)

Phil

Responding to your "will I get another VOlvo"

Including my P544 I had in the 60's this is my forth Volvo.
Last year I bought a 2015 Subaru Outback and disliked it so much that I traded it in on this V60. I took a $6,000 hit on the deal.

I like Volvo's but in the past what I found is that when they need something it is usually costly. I didn't think anything about the tires when I bought it. Well, yes I did and that was the tread depth. It was a CPO car and I thought that handing off a tire that was 50% used was a bit off. Yes they were within their CPO guidelines but when I"m spending $25,000 they could have thrown in some tires at their cost.

Talking with tire places the consensus is that my wheel size limits my choices a bit. And they all seem to need to order any tires I want.

I know it isn't the fault of the car, the nail that is but my wife and I were joking this morning about the Honda CRV verses the V60. We've had the 2015 Honda for over three years, it had @ 90,000 miles on it when we bought it. Since owning it the maintenance cost has been a set of wiper blades. Owning the Volvo for 6 months the need for the tires will far outweigh the cost of three years ownership of the Honda. Just seems that a Volvo is always a money magnet but I like them so I pay to play.

My Kuhmos worked well in the snow for my rear wheel Jaguar. As well as a Jaguar can go in the snow.