Set two bills side by side. One is four new covers bought on a hunch, because somebody glanced at a scuff and pulled a face. The other is somebody looking properly, telling you three are sound and changing the single tyre with a swelling in it. We would rather do the second, which is why the inspection takes in the date code, the bead seat, the inner surface when the cover has to come off anyway and the tread measured against the legal 1.6mm, not just the bit you pointed at. Now and then the correct answer is that nothing needs doing at all, and that is a perfectly good outcome. It applies as much to a runabout kept at All Saints as to something covering the M11 daily.
Kerbs and potholes do most of the damage in Bishop's Stortford, and they rarely do it while you are looking. You do not drive it anywhere first, and nothing gets towed off the A1250. Level in All Saints, sloping in Snowley Parade: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Thorley or Bishop's Park is worth flagging.
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Narrow older lanes around Havers, then fast miles on the A120. Local tyres tend to collect kerb marks at one end of the week and heat at the other. We come out and look at either, and if replacement is genuinely the answer the stock is already with us.
A driver was convinced a kerb near Snowley Parade had ruined a front tyre. The mark went nowhere near the cords and the casing was untouched, so it stayed on the car and nothing was sold. Six months later it is still there.
A car being used daily through town had worn one shoulder down to the point where the weave was visible. That is past any argument about tread depth. It came off and a new cover went on the same visit.
A second car kept at Hockerill had done almost no mileage and looked barely used. The walls told a different story: hard rubber and fine splits all round. Age had done it, not the road, and we said so plainly.
That the cords inside have broken and only rubber is holding the shape. It cannot be repaired and it can burst without warning, so that tyre should not be driven on, least of all out towards junction 8.
It depends on depth and on age. Surface crazing on a tyre a few years old is worth monitoring. Deep splits, or crazing on something already past its useful life, mean planning replacement rather than waiting for the wet weather to make the point.
A swelling on the wall, a nick with anything fibrous showing, a mark on the rim edge, and a slow pressure loss over the following days. If any of those appear, get it looked at rather than watching it through another fortnight of commuting into Harlow.
That is most of what this job is. You get a verdict, and what happens next is your decision. Nobody is talked into rubber they do not need.
Not by itself. Tread depth is only one of the things that can fail. Age, sidewall damage, uneven wear and a bad repair history all matter, and a tyre can be legal on depth and still be finished.
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