I also posted this in the Tires area, but I wanted some Canadian answers.

I'm in Calgary. I changed my winter tires to summer tires today. The summers feel so much different when driving than the winters, I can't believe it.

Anyways, I noticed that my RF tire has a nail in it - it looks like it goes through the tread, but may be into the sidewall (take a look below.) A friend of mine told me the tire is garbage because the nail was too close to the sidewall. The tire does not leak.

I have attached pictures. What do you think? Is that tire toast? Thanks!

 

Nope.....It's in the sidewall...

 

bad place cause it might last like that forever but if it blows under load you may have a full blown blow out---its happened to me sucks

 

It's not in the side wall, I say yes. However, you shouldn't track a repaired tire, no matter where it is repaired.

 

That is the tread, not the sidewall. I would find a place that would fix it first. It looks from your tire that you do not do a lot of aggressive driver since that part of the tread is not even scrubbed. I wouldn't worry about it. Fix it and drive on it IMO.