flat tire

I live in a community that has several rv parks and live in a area one road in and out. I've seen a lot ov shall I say interesting stuff and one is flat tires. Some times we hear the flop flop of a flat going by the house,even the music of a trailer running on the rim,mostly on double axel trailer. But sometimes single axel. Other interesting thing such as,wheel bearings smoking,awnings hanging out, and once a forgotten slider. But one thing I know is that I have never seen a tire repaired on the spot, one reason is they are too far gone and almost always the bead is broken. My 50 ft wide driveway is the first wide spot to pull over comming into town.

As I mentioned, my problem with beads goes back several years.  Back in the late 70's and the 80's I was into restoring the older British sports cars.  Almost every time I had a flat, the tire bead separated from the wheel.  I had the same experience whenever I had a flat on one of my popup trailers.  These were all 10" wheels.  I don't recall having any similar problems with tires on my full size cars or trailers in recent (last 25) years.

Never had a bead problem except on my small tractor tires.

obviously if the bead would separate, the tire would likly need to be taken off or another step taken to inflate.  i have never had a bead separate from a basic flat and have been able to plug successfully 99% of the time. 

Originally posted by hogone blown, just flat...........  plug and inflate