At my shop, we've had a few customers send tires off to Tire Alert for repairs ... and again, they were unhappy with the base tape (really thick) and the gluing job (not enough) ... in fact, when we tried mounting one, the base tape peeled off the tire when we were centering it on the rim ...
Of course, our experience is from a couple years back, so things may have changed since then ... but based on Dale's story below, maybe not.
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> From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:42:25 EDT
> To: Wdgadd@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Tire Alert
>
> In a message dated 7/7/01 8:04:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Wdgadd@aol.com
> writes:
>
> << I've seen some tires they've done, and while the base tape looks a
> little different, they seem to do a nice job. My friend Alan reports no
> problems; the base tape seems to stay put, etc. >>
>
> Hmmm. I would like to hear from any of you with personal experiences with
> Tire Alert.. I was just talking to a very good& long term customer yesterday
> about them.. He was dissatisfied with their base tape gluing job.. It was
> inadequate and caused him not to be able to use the tires for very long after
> receiving them back from TireAlert.. He wanted to send more tires but was
> waiting for them to answer his inquiry as to how they intended to address
> this problem.
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina