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Today while patching a leak, I noticed my tube is for 25-32 tyres, and my tyre is a 35. Is that really an issue? I wasn't aware of my mismatch, and I have driven quite a lot on these wheels with no noticeable problems. Now i'm just wondering if I should keep using this tube (it has two patches now).

Edit: also, the reason I was patching it because it lost maybe half of the air in ~48 hours, so not a massive hole but still a hole. I suspect it was from a piece of glass, which I thought i saw on my tyre but now seems to have come out (I had to get to work so I had no time to patch it immediately when i noticed the leak, it kept air in well enough for my commute).

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