Hi this is my first post. I hope some of you will be able to help me. I recently purchased a 1988 jaguar xj6 VD Plas. I bought the car for it's excellent condition, price and low miles. The car is regularly driven and has to deal with a 30 mile trip to school and 30 mile trip back a day.

I have had only little problems that one would expect from a twenty year old car, except for the wheels. My car has the five bolt wire wheels on it. I am pretty sure they are factory. I have owned the car for almost three months and have had three blow outs. They also tend to leak.

While changing the tires we learned that two wheels are running inner tubes while the other two are not. The place where I get my tires said that running an inner tube in a tubeless tire would cause the tire to blowout. Is this true? I've never heard that before. Im running modern goodyear tires, and there not the cheap ones. They cost about $130 each and you can see why my bank is hurting from them keep going out.

I do know that all four tires have been sealed with silicon and two of the are leaking from that silicone. Is there a better and easier way to seal that rim or am I better off replacing the wheels with mags?

Any help here would be appreciated.