Usually about £30 to replace every four years who would bother with this stuff now? It pretty much renders the tyre unrepairable I understand.
My ‘08 TT had much the same bottle of uselessness - a decade and a half out-of-date:)
Apparently the modern stuff like Tyreweld doesn’t stop the puncture being repaired.
How do you think they came up with a 4 year shelf life? They don’t guarantee functionality at 5 years, because they never tested to 5 years.
On the other hand I have a 28 year old space saver in my boot. It looks ok, but who knows.
I swapped my pot of goo for a can of squirty cream about six years ago.
My spacesaver from ‘94 FD Rx7.
Central aperture 67.1mm
5x 114.3 bolt circle
16 inch mini-spare.
Are you in the right thread? 
I still have the road flare in an import automatic v-spec. Do flares have best befores???
I think they do. The coastguard regularly have a bit of a fireworks display at a local beach that is not overcrowded because swimming is dangerous. Though they have this notice that it is illegal to leave ‘out of date’ pyro stuff on their doorstep, many do ( just down from our house is one of their ‘outposts’ so we see the stuff from time to time: its sort of fly tipping of explosives).
Now that’s a sexy spare wheel!
Just as an aside I’ve taken all the jack stuff and tools (apart from the small bit of kit for dealing with a misbehaving PRHT) out of the car. When my fuel pump died the recovery people didn’t use the tow eyes and why do you need a jack when the NC can’t carry a spare?
Yes, the manufacture year and expiry date will be on it. Usually 4 years.
You can buy JDM flashing LED torches as a substitute.
It probably won’t blow your hand off if you tried it out, likely will just fizzle. Malaysian fellas not too bothered. I think they got it out of a cheap JDM import, so its probably out of date, given the Shaken interval. Yours should have been removed when the car was imported.
I’d carry the Jack if I were you.
Even if you rely on the gel/aerosol gunk, you’d be advised to lift the affected wheel/tyre off the ground before you try to “inflate” it.
Secondly, the Rx7 FD space saver spare DOES fit the NC boot……
(I know what the non-believers will say- what do you do with the full sized wheel with the punctured tyre, after you’ve changed the wheel? That dilemma is infinitely preferable to waiting for roadside assistance when the “gunk” fails)
Where does the deflated tyre go when you have fitted the space saver ?
I asked the same question re why carry a jack:
On an NC those are NOT tow hooks. They are tie-down hooks only designed for securing the car during transportation - the owners’ manual specifically warns against using them to tow the car.
Boot rack, or just dropped into the boot, for the trip to the nearest tyre shop, boot lid open. Beats waiting for recovery.
I replaced mine with RAC branded goop as it doesn’t have an expiry date on it. Sometimes the reason manufacturers put an expiry date on any product is to put a time limit on their liability for the item. It may or may not mean the product is unfit for purpose after this date
Fair point but the car seems to have towing points, front and rear. Odd that they should put the items for transporting across the world into the tool kit?
A possible guide to effective usability is how much the plastic bottle has NOT shrunk.
Shrinkage might suggest some of the gloop’s VOC components have left, migrated through the plastic, and thus rendered the gloop less effective. I’m not a chemist, this is merely my speculation.
It’s one of several reasons why in each car we normally carry an aerosol metal can gloop, a squeezy plastic gloop, and a sticky string kit (with additional vulcanising solution). And the jack, always.
I’m happy to repair the puncture with the sticky string kit, but SWMBO will head straight for the “easier” aerosol can.
And yes, I found the original OEM gloop for my 2008 Niseko at the back of a garage cupboard only a few weeks ago, and once again wondered how to dispose of it “safely” before replacing it on the shelf…
Hopefully it does not go in the passenger cabin. There was an incident where someone did that and it cost the passenger their life because tyre exploded due to damage.
I took mine (for another brand car) to the local dealership.
Same with some touch-up paint.
