Plenty of unsafe tyres never go flat. That is the part worth understanding, because most people judge a tyre by whether it is holding air. A tread down to the wear bars holds air perfectly. So does a tyre with a cut through to the cords, a tyre eight years old and crazed with fine cracks, and a tyre with a bulge in the wall. All four are defects and all four will fail a test.
So when we are asked to look at a tyre around Ashford, the check is not about pressure. The wheel comes off, the tread depth is measured across the face rather than in one groove, the walls are read inside and out, and the date code gets a look. Then you get a plain answer: fine, watch it, or change it. Nothing gets condemned to make a sale, and if the tyre has a year left in it we will say so and put the wheel back on.
A cut from road debris is the one that catches out careful drivers. Where it is beyond repair, the replacement goes on at the car in Littleton, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. Nothing about Felthamhill, Charlton or the traffic on the M3 near junction 1 puts you outside the round. School run in Felthamhill or 1am in Charlton, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Littleton, any day in Sunbury Common: the line is open.
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Ashford sits between Heathrow, Staines and the M3, and the tyres here spend their lives in stop-start airport traffic on gritty, heavily used surfaces. That combination wears tread and ages rubber faster than a quiet town would. Judging a tyre by whether it goes soft misses almost everything that actually makes one unfit, which is why the wheel comes off and the whole thing gets measured properly.
A car in Ashford Common had tyres just above the limit. The measurements were shared, nothing was replaced, and the owner planned ahead instead.
A tyre near Charlton was holding pressure with cord visible in a gash. It was replaced immediately, since holding air proved nothing at all.
A rarely used second car in Littleton had plenty of tread and rubber a decade old. Two tyres were changed on the driveway.
Easily. Worn tread, a cut through to the cords, a sidewall bulge and aged crazed rubber all hold pressure fine and are all defects.
1.6mm across the central three quarters of the tread, right around the tyre. We measure in several places rather than glancing at the middle groove.
It does on low-mileage cars. The date code on the sidewall gives the week and year, and old rubber loses wet grip long before the tread runs out.
Yes, and often we do. If the measurements are healthy you get the numbers and the wheel goes back on rather than a sales pitch.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes across the town, from Felthamhill through to Sunbury Common, with common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes on the van if one is needed.
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