Do you buy Road Hazard Warranty?

[Thrift Store Scott]

cbelt3 wrote:
What annoys me is the tendency for tire shops to tell me "I can't fix that because it's too close to the sidewall". This didn't used to be an issue in the era of 70mph driving and big huge cars. Why is in an issue with my itteh bitteh honda and 60 mph ?

Chalk that one up mainly to an overly-litigious society and a "CYA" mentality by the tire manufacturers, but the fact that newer-style, lower-profile tires (60-series or lower now versus 78- or 75-series tires back in the day) have a lot more material inside the tire near the sidewall making it difficult to get good adhesion on "iffy" patch locations does play a big part as well.