A tyre wearing out unevenly is telling you about the car, not just about the tyre. A worn inner edge with a healthy outer usually means alignment. A scalloped or feathered pattern you can feel by running a hand across the tread points the same way. Fitting a new tyre without mentioning that is a good way to sell the same customer another tyre in eight months.
So when we take a wheel off around N1 we read the wear pattern as well as the depth. If the tread has gone evenly, that is simply mileage and there is nothing to worry about beyond replacing it. If it has not, you get told what the pattern suggests so you can have the geometry checked before the new rubber goes the same way. Kerbing in tight permit bays off Upper Street is one of the most common causes, which makes it a very Angel sort of problem.
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 A501, a cut picked up who knows where, a bulge spotted while it sat parked up in City Road basin. Old tyres leave City Road basin, Upper Street and N1 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Islington High Street, or at the kerb in Chapel Market. The N1 postcode and a street in Pentonville Road: that is enough.
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The junction where Upper Street, City Road and Pentonville Road come together is patched, bumpy and permanently busy, and the permit bays either side of it are tight enough that kerbing is almost a monthly event. All of that shows up in how a tyre wears rather than in how it looks. Reading that pattern properly is the difference between replacing a tyre once and replacing it twice.
A car parked off Upper Street had two fronts worn away on the inside only. New tyres went on and the owner was told to get the alignment looked at.
A tyre near Chapel Market felt like a saw blade across the tread. It was replaced and the cause was explained rather than glossed over.
A driver near Duncan Terrace expected bad news. The wear was perfectly even, so it was straightforward mileage and only the tyre needed changing.
Usually the alignment is out, sometimes a worn suspension bush. It wears the part of the tyre nobody sees, which is why it goes unnoticed until it is well past the limit.
No. They will start again from full depth and then wear the same way unless the underlying cause is dealt with. We would rather tell you that than not.
Not properly, no, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is read the wear pattern accurately and tell you what it points at.
1.6mm across the central three quarters of the tread, all the way round. We measure in several places rather than eyeballing the middle groove.
Yes. Working in the tight bays off Islington High Street is routine, and the car stays exactly where it is parked throughout.
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