Will it last until payday? That is the real question behind most calls about damage, and the answer depends completely on which sort of damage it is. A shallow graze along the wall from brushing a kerb in the Town Centre often means nothing whatever, and if that is what we find we will say so and leave it alone. A swelling, a cut deep enough to expose cords, or a split that opens as the wheel turns is a different animal, because those are structural and they let go suddenly rather than gradually. The A1 is a poor place to discover which you have. So we look properly, at the inside as well as the outside where it is warranted, and only one of the two possible answers costs you anything.
Sidewall damage is the one that catches people out. A kerb taken badly on the A1 will do it as readily as a pothole will. If that is what you are looking at, whether the car is in Stratton or anywhere else in Biggleswade, the answer is a replacement, and it is better fitted where the car is standing than at the end of a nervous drive. The A1, the A6001 and the streets around Shortmead sit inside Bedfordshire. A 4am Furzenhall call and a noon Town Centre call reach the same fitter. Whether it is Stratton in rush hour or the A603 at midnight, we answer.
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Between A1 debris and the tight parking around Shortmead, the town produces both kinds of tyre damage in quantity. We come out to look at either, and because the stock travels with the tools, an inspection at Stratton can become a replacement on the same visit if that is genuinely what the tyre needs.
A lump had appeared on the outer wall of a front tyre overnight, and the owner in Kingsfield sensibly did not move the car. Cords had already parted underneath, which no amount of air pressure repairs, so a fresh cover went on before the car was driven anywhere.
A low-mileage estate near Holme had walls covered in fine crazing and plenty of tread left. The date codes explained it. Rubber hardens with time whether the car is used or not, and the honest advice was replacement on age rather than wear.
Squeezing past parked cars in Shortmead had put a rim edge hard into the kerb. The alloy took a visible mark, and the bead behind it had been pinched enough to weep air slowly. Both got attention rather than the obvious one getting all of it.
Once you can see the woven cord underneath, that tyre is finished, whatever the tread looks like. Anything shallower than the rubber layer is usually cosmetic. If we cannot tell from the outside, the tyre comes off and we look inside instead of guessing.
It does. Rubber stiffens and cracks over the years and old tyres lose grip in the wet long before the tread runs down. The four-digit date code on the wall tells the story, and we read it as a matter of course.
Depends entirely on where it is. Punctures through the tread band, yes. Sidewall damage, bulges and splits, never, because there is nothing sound left to patch onto.
There is nowhere to drive it to. We work at the car, which is the point, and driving on damage is how a bad tyre becomes a bad tyre plus a bent rim.
Then it stays where it is and you spend nothing on rubber that was never needed. We would rather be the ones who tell you that than the ones who talk you into four.
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