I'm currently facing a problem with my tubeless tire. I plugged it on the side of the road, inflated it to the recommended 2.9bar, but it keeps leaking air down to 2.5 bar. I'm currently in Indonesia, so there's a compressor at the side of the road every few kilometers, but it's getting annoying.

Afaik there are two types of plugs: the longer thinner sausages (for the lack of a better word) and the thicker shorter ones. First I plugged the hole with a thin plug, then it continued to leak air. So I added more plugs to the total of three.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong and there's more to it than to just stuff the hole. Do the different colors for the plugs have a meaning? I've got black and brown. Where would you use a thin one, where a thicker one? How do you use each. I also ran out of that rubber glue, is it necessary? I was told it was included in the plugs already.

My most important question would be: if my fix attempt made the situation worse than the normal plug can fix, do tire shops have a possibility to fix a worst case scenario?

The tire is a Pirelli Scorpion Trail with just 10k km, replacing it is just my last resort.

It would be nice if you could share your experiences :-)

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