Shenley Road is narrow, kerbed on both sides and busy from early until late, and a fair share of the damage we get asked to inspect around the town centre starts with a wheel meeting that kerb while somebody eases into a gap.
The scrape on the alloy is what people notice. The tyre is what we look at, because the rubber takes the impact first and hides it best afterwards. Sometimes the mark is skin deep and there is nothing wrong underneath, in which case the tyre stays on the car. Sometimes the casing was pinched between kerb and rim and a swelling is on its way, or air is already seeping at the bead. Hardened, crazed walls on a car that mostly sits parked near Manor Way are a different question again, and the date code answers that one rather than the tread depth. Our job is to tell you which of those you have, and only some of the answers involve buying anything.
"It still drives fine" is true of almost every dangerously damaged tyre we replace. We do that where the car is parked, in Furzehill, Elstree or anywhere in between and fit the correct replacement on the spot if that is what it needs. Every street in Theobald Street, every close in Elstree, every junction on the A1. The wheel comes off in Furzehill, not on a ramp in Radlett. Nothing is towed out of Cowley Hill or Manor Way; the work finishes there.
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Between kerb damage in the town centre and high-speed miles on the A1, this town produces both slow and sudden tyre failures. We come and look at either, and being close by means an inspection can turn into a finished job the same visit if the tyre genuinely needs it.
A wheel had gone into the kerb face while parking in the town centre leaving a bright silver scar along the rim edge. The tyre behind it proved sound, so the owner was told to live with a scratched alloy and keep their money.
A driver felt a wobble on Barnet Lane and found a lump standing proud on the side of a front tyre. Cords had parted beneath it, which no repair addresses, so the tyre was changed before the car went any further.
An advisory about perished sidewalls had been noted on a car kept near Theobald Street. The tread was barely worn, but the date codes showed the tyres were old enough that the cracking would only get worse. Replaced on the owner's own timetable rather than in a panic.
Usually the bead seal. A hard knock, the sort you get squeezing into a bay off Theobald Street, can distort the seat where rubber meets rim, so air escapes there rather than through any hole in the tread. It is fixable in some cases, and where it is not you will be told why.
The alloy and the tyre take the same hit, so damage to one is a reason to look at the other. A visible mark on the rim edge is the clearest hint that the casing was squeezed against it.
It is on the sidewall, four digits inside an oval, usually at the end of a longer code, and it is the first thing we check on a car that spends most of its life parked up in Furzehill. The first two are the week and the last two are the year, so 3521 means the thirty-fifth week of 2021.
Depth is only one measure. Age, a bulge, exposed cords or a damaged bead all finish a tyre off while the tread still measures above the 1.6mm legal minimum. Legal and sound are not quite the same thing.
It helps, particularly for the obvious calls. A clear picture of a bulge, taken where the car sits in Cowley Hill, saves everyone time. Anything subtler needs eyes on it, and often the tyre off the rim, because photographs cannot show the inside.
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