{"id":5650,"date":"2025-03-12T21:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:02:54","slug":"how-to-open-a-can-of-fix-a-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5650","title":{"rendered":"How to open a can of Fix-a-Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=floatRight width=150 src=\"https:\/\/www.fixaflat.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/S60420_002_FAF-16oz_LS_Beauty-3000x3000-9ee15b7e-65ef-486d-b627-c9a3df0a5d20_300x.jpg?v=1702590350\">So you have a flat tire and want to try out Fix-a-Flat, a spray can that claims to seal and re-inflate your tire for temporary use until it can be repaired. Your first and biggest challenge is&#8230; how to get the cap off.<\/p>\n<p>You squeeze and fiddle and twist and squeeze some more, with no success.  You then go to the Internet and discover that this is such a common problem that the Fix-a-Flat website (but NOT the can) comes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fixaflat.com\/pages\/how-do-i-remove-the-fix-a-flat-cap\">instructions on how to get the cap off<\/a>.  They recommend wedging the can under a non-flat tire for leverage so you can wiggle the cap off.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Sometimes our Fix-a-Flat caps suffer from separation anxiety and don&#8217;t want to come off.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It turns out, this works.  It would have been nicer if they&#8217;d designed a cap that could be removed with human hands, which seems like a well solved problem.  But I guess if you ever encounter another kind of problematic cap, you could try this technique there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you have a flat tire and want to try out Fix-a-Flat, a spray can that claims to seal and re-inflate your tire for temporary use until it can be repaired. Your first and biggest challenge is&#8230; how to get the cap off. You squeeze and fiddle and twist and squeeze some more, with no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}