A tyre can be finished and still hold air perfectly, which is what makes the assessment worth doing rather than assuming.
What that produces is cuts and chunking rather than punctures. A stone can slice into a shoulder without ever reaching the air chamber, and the tyre carries on as normal while the cut works deeper with every flex. Chunks torn out of the tread blocks do the same. Neither shows up as a pressure warning and neither is repairable, because the injury is not a hole to be sealed but a loss of material.
The test we apply is straightforward: has anything reached the cords, is the flank distorted anywhere, and does the injury lie where a tyre bends. Any of those and the tyre has done its work.
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 Ashtead Park, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. Tight in Epsom Downs, easy in Woodfield: neither stops the job. Level in Woodfield, sloping in Leatherhead Road: we set the car straight first.
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Ashtead sits between the common, the woods and the Downs, and the roads reflect it: flint, gravel and leaf litter washing onto narrow lanes with hard kerbs on either side. That combination cuts sidewalls and tears tread blocks far more often than it produces a clean puncture, and both kinds of damage need looking at rather than trusting the pressure warning to speak up.
A car used daily on the roads by Ashtead Park had a deep angular cut in the shoulder of a front tyre with fabric just visible at the base. It had never lost pressure. It was replaced because the next flex cycle was as likely as any to open it up.
An older vehicle in Lower Ashtead had lumps missing from the tread blocks on both rears. The rubber had hardened with age and was tearing rather than wearing. Tread depth was legal, but the tyres had nothing useful left to give.
A driver near Craddocks Avenue pulled in hard to let a van through and caught the kerb along the whole flank. The scuff had rolled the rubber back and exposed a line of cords. Not repairable, and not something to leave until the weekend.
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Yes, and that is the awkward part. Cuts, bulges and cord damage do not necessarily leak. The structure fails first and the air escapes afterwards, often suddenly. Holding pressure tells you nothing about whether the casing is sound.
If you can see fabric or steel at the bottom of it, or if it has opened wide enough to hold a fingernail in the flexing part of the tyre, it matters. Surface nicks in the tread rubber from gravel are usually cosmetic, and we will tell you which you have.
Age hardening, sharp debris, or a compound that has been heat cycled hard over the years. It is more common on tyres that spend a lot of time parked and then get used on rough surfaces, which describes a lot of second cars around here.
Cord exposure, a bulge or a serious cut is a straight fail, and so is a tyre below 1.6mm across the central three quarters. It is worth having anything doubtful looked at before the test rather than losing the certificate over it.
Only if it is worn or damaged as well. There is no rule that says a good tyre must be scrapped to keep a pair, but if its tread depth is a long way from the new one, replacing both keeps the braking balanced.
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