Run-flats confuse people, and the confusion is understandable. The tyre is built with reinforced walls so it can carry the car for a limited distance after losing all its pressure, which is genuinely useful. What it is not is indestructible, and it is not repairable once it has done that job. The reinforcement is sacrificial, it cooks itself supporting the weight, and the damage is on the inside where you cannot see it.
So if your car runs them and you have driven any distance on a flat, the honest answer is a replacement, and we will show you the scuffed ring on the inner liner that proves it. If the tyre is a conventional one and the mark is only on the outside, the answer may well be that it is fine. Either way the wheel comes off and the inside gets looked at, on your drive off Woburn Street or wherever the car is sitting. Guesswork from the pavement helps nobody.
You will get a straight driveable-or-not answer before anything else happens. A broken tyre is usually a slow discovery rather than a bang: a kerb strike, a pothole on a road like the A507, a cut picked up who knows where, a bulge spotted while it sat parked up in Ampthill Park. The wheel comes off in Station Road, not on a ramp in Flitwick. Nothing is towed out of Church Street or Dunstable Street; the work finishes there.
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The lanes out towards Ampthill Park and Maulden hide potholes that split a tyre without much warning, and the narrow streets around Church Street give you very little room to inspect anything safely. A tyre that looks acceptable from the kerb can still be a defect on the inside, and the reverse is just as true. We come to the car, take the wheel off and give the answer the casing supports rather than the one that sells a tyre.
A driver made it back from the Flitwick direction on a deflated run-flat. The inner liner showed the damage clearly, so the tyre was replaced rather than patched.
A car parked on Dunstable Street had a swelling on the wall after a pothole. Cords gone, no repair possible, and a replacement went on there.
A tyre scraped against the kerb near the Market Square looked worse than it was. Nothing structural, so the wheel went back on unchanged.
Not once it has been driven on while deflated. The reinforced wall breaks down internally doing that job, and the damage does not show from outside.
There is a scuffed grey ring on the inner liner where the walls have rubbed together. We take the tyre off the rim and look for exactly that.
Holding pressure and being roadworthy are different things. A bulge or a cut that has reached the cords is a defect even on a tyre that has never gone soft.
No. Plenty of what we are called out to see around the Market Square is kerb scuffing and nothing more, and we say so and refit the wheel.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, whether you are in the centre or out on the A507. The van carries common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes for the same visit.
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