Many canned tire inflators sold in the US still have butane & propane as the propellant to inflate the tire.These tire sealants or tire inflators with butane or propane can explode and cause serious injury, blindness, and even death to the tire worker and others. The customer who puts these flammable gases into their tire by using a canned tire sealant or tire inflator may also have additional risks or danger in putting butane in their tire and traveling a highway speeds with a flammable gas inside their tire.Further, many of these tire inflators state that it will permanently fix a flat. cording to tire experts, these tire inflators will not safely seal a hole or defect and in fact can cause damage to the tire and rim.

Dangers of Tire Sealants with Explosive Gas

Flammable / Explosive Tire Inflators

 After months of discovery, the defendants settled this case. The main defendant ceased to ever manufacture this type of product again.

       The next case involved a retired mechanic in San Antonio, Texas helping a neighbor on a Sunday morning to try and fix a small pin hole leak in the rim of a mobile home tire. The neighbor had used a can of Puncture Seal made by Radiator Specialty Company in the tire in hopes that the slow leak would stop. Mr. Gaconnet inspected the tire and found the pin hole leak. After deflating the tire, he attempted to weld the pin hole closed, when suddenly the tire and rim exploded, blinding him in both eyes and maiming his hand and causing a massive loss of hearing. A spark from the weld ignited the flammable mixture. The tire did not explode due to an over heating of the contents of the air in the tire as was argued by the defendants. At the conclusion of the case, it was announced that Radiator Specialty Company  was changing their formula, and was not producing anymore Puncture Seal with butane / propane as the propellant for the tire sealant.

        Another similar case involved a woman from California that had a can of Johnsen's Tire Sealant stored underneath the seat of her pickup truck. Without her knowledge the can leaked out the butane from a faulty seal on the can and the butane puddled on the floorboard of her can. When she later lit a cigarette the entire car burst into flames. She suffered numerous 2nd and 3rd degree burns from the flash fire.  Her case was settled  by Mr. Willis within months after suit was filed for a confidential amount.