Bead Sealer is NOT Liner Sealer!

PREMA manufactures two products, Bead Sealer and Innerliner Overbuff Sealant. Both look very much alike - but both are very different and perform very different functions.

Bead Sealer is used to prevent bead leaks and is applied to form a rubber seal between the tire bead and rim. It is basically natural rubber with solvents. When the solvents evaporate, the rubber solids remain....read more

Bridging Causes Tire Repair Failure

There are many reasons related to how a tire repair is installed that will cause it to fail.

One common reason is - the full area of the repair is not making contact with the tire, or in other words, "bridging". This typically happens when a repair is applied in the shoulder of the tire in such a way that both ends of the repair make contact but the center of the repair does not....read more

Thin, Strong and Durable

The patch portion of a proper nail-hole repair serves one purpose - to seal the inner liner. Nailhole injuries do not require fabric reinforcement (when the injury is filled) because the injury is small enough that the structural integrity of the tire has not been substantially reduced. When designing repairs for these injuries, tire repair manufacturers optimize the amount of material used to perform the required function...read more