Does Slime Work?

I'm going to try Slime Tire Sealant to see if it will cure my slow leaking scooter tire. I'll show you the steps and give you the results.

[Permitmon]

Your explanations are concise and very clear. Well done. Thanks.

[AKCobra]

I put slime in both tires of my escooter and went about 650 miles before it developed a slow leak. My experience was kind of similar, it went down a lot at first and then seemed to mostly hold pressure. However even after 2 weeks there was still slime oozing from the puncture point, so ultimately I ended up replacing the tube. So for me I'm viewing this as a "get me home" product. I have both tires pre-slimed, and I always carry a pump and extra slime with me, so I'm pretty confident I could make it home from all but a catastrphic blow out. In the end that's all I really need, because changing the tube is no big deal once I'm home with my tools, and they're cheap enough.

[mjordan]

I picked up a nail in my motorcycle's rear tire in the middle of the Everglades on a weekend. I slimed it, intending to replace the tire when I got home to Virginia. Well... I got sidetracked and the tire reached end-of-tread life about 5K miles later. It never lost any more than usual air for that period. I'm a believer. It IS messy, though. With a scooter using a tube, the mess will be contained. I just bought an electric scooter and it will be slimed tomorrow.

[JohnDoe-nqfu]

Another awesome professional review dang man you need to get into car reviews asap!

[cainetastic]

Great video and I had a similar problem with my Weped Scooter.

[teslacybertruck]

-It clearly solved his problem
-It was very easy to use
-It's Inexpensive

*Rates it 4 Stars*

[Tardisius]

I was losing 1-2 lbs pressure every 2 days in my 26x4 Fat tire. Slime added..pressure holding @ 22lbs for 3 months. =)

[kevincloar]

I use it for my bicycle tires. It works pretty well

[escheidl]

I put 12.5 oz of Slime per tire in my 26x4" fat tires on my ebike per the Slime calculators recommendation. I can't feel any difference in balance and would never guess it was in there, but then I never see much faster than 35 mph. I run my tires at 18 lbs., 20 lbs. being the manufacturer's maximum recommended tire pressure. So far no flats but it hasn't been in there very long. We'll see.

[zakariaabderrahmanesadelao]

doesn't get clearer than this. very accuracy description thank you for your review/tutorial.

[muzakdeep]

Very helpful m, the best of this slime stuff, thanks!

[contessa.adella]

Yep…using it in my tubed e-mtb wheels. Um’…spinning up the wheel on the motor is a poor way to distribute the product inside because it will just centrifuge it to one side….Better is to simply rotate the wheel slowly by hand a couple of revolutions or wheel it along a few feet! Balance!…Actually a liquid automatically distributes in use to the light side of the wheel thus auto balancing the wheel for you…providing it remains liquid of course!

[agm]

I think the Slime calculator for a scooter is for a machine smaller than a motorcycle not the "stand up" scooter you have. I would think it would take a lot less product for your "scooter". Thanks for your test.

[nextdoorwarren]

Good videos so far, you should try Orange Seal, it is very popular in the bike community, particularly in the tubeless gravel bike scene. I use it in my Speedway 5.

[garanveg]

can i use this product in bike inner tube ? i bought the wrong one and i question if i can use it anyway

[austieoutdoors]

yes was your tyres tubeless or have they got to be tubes because i have just changed my scooter to tubeless well on the front its tubeless and on the back is still inertube because im still waiting to get the back done but what i wanted to know can you use slime with tubeless.

[vinodreddybuddula]

can I use it for tires equipped with inner tubes. I think slime works only for tubeless tires. my scooter has 8 inch flat tire and it got punctured.

[ChaJ]

I put Slime in one of my 10" scooter tires, the back one to be more specific as that seems to be where scooters get most of their flats. As it is a tubeless tire, I used the tubeless variant of Slime. Over the course of weeks as I haven't had the scooter that long nor the Slime, (actually bought a new bottle as the old bottle was for a scooter I had a long time ago and this stuff only has a shelf life of 4 years), I have had the tire go down multiple times. I didn't see any Slime on the splash guard, but figured it was primarily dumping out onto the road, at least what was still sloshing around. I think the issue was with multiple punctures over a short period of time while using "puncture resistant" tires, which are actually rather thick and I have been able to pick out smaller objects stuck in the front tire that doesn't have any Slime in it without it going down, the back tire just has too much stuff sticking all the way through it and the tire ran out of Slime. So I dumped more in and it is holding air again. It seems the general theme, at least with larger punctures, is the tire will lose air and need to be filled up, but then it will hold. So keep a battery operated micro-pump on me and pump up the tire again and I am usually good until the next puncture. It is just once the stuff runs out, then the air hisses out and you can hear it, probably a bit of sound of the lose bit of Slime left spurting out of the bottom of the tire, at least when it gets to where the hole is until all of the Slime is gone. I have to wonder how much really sticks in place as opposed to pooling, so that might be what is really going on, not enough Slime sticks to one spot when the bigger punctures happen and so why putting more in fixed the problem when the Slime in there no longer seemed to be enough.

I suppose it is a problem when going through the relatively good part of town to the train station, I have to ride past homeless encampments and there is just a lot of crap on the roads there and then on the rest of the way to work once getting off the train, I am going through a 'bad' part of town where things are in much worse shape everywhere you go and you see crazy things all the time like people riding on the hoods of cars shouting at the driver to stop and pickup trucks that look like they are about to break in two as they bounce down the rough roads while stuffed full of useless crap and bent all to hell, etc. Then of course there are burnt out structures everywhere and apparently even those all glass exterior office buildings burn, or at least someone figured out how to make them burn around there. I am not too worried about getting jumped because all of the people I pass on the road look to be in pretty rough shape and burnt out on drugs as opposed to riding past thugs. I may have focused too much on getting a scooter with good suspension to handle the rough roads and not considered well enough all of the debris as I thought Slime combined with "puncture resistant" tires would be good enough. There is some other stuff I want to try out, but it is taking forever to ship.

[calvintanner]

Is there a Slime Sealant machine that pumps the slime into the bike tube .

[danielodehielo]

Hey, nIce scooter you have, what is the brand of your scooter? Is it hard to change any flat tire? Thank you