An inspection costs a great deal less than a tyre, and that is the whole case for ringing before you decide anything. Two things happen roughly equally often around here. Somebody replaces a perfectly sound tyre because a scuff looked frightening, and somebody else keeps driving on a bulge for a fortnight because it had not gone bang yet. Both are expensive in their own way.
What we do is look and say. Kerbs on the tighter streets off Brixton Hill are high and the surface near the junctions is broken up, so damage arrives from below as often as it arrives from a nail. A cut that stops in the rubber is not the same as a cut into the cords. A crack across the tread face is not the same as a crack in the sidewall flex zone. Those distinctions are the entire job, and the answer is sometimes that you owe us for a look and nothing else.
Tyres on the same axle should be a matched pair, and one damaged tyre is where that goes wrong. The replacement itself is fitted and balanced where the car stands in SW9, with the alloy and pressure sensor checked as the wheel goes back on. Level in Tulse Hill, sloping in Loughborough Junction: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Loughborough Junction or Stockwell is worth flagging. The SW9 postcode and a street in Stockwell: that is enough.
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Between the potholes near the junctions, the high kerbs on the residential streets and the constant stop start along Coldharbour Lane, tyres in SW2 and SW9 take a beating from the road itself. We come out, inspect the damage where the car stands and give you a straight verdict either way.
A swelling on the inner sidewall, found by hand rather than by eye, on a car that had hit a pothole weeks earlier. Broken cords hold their shape until they do not. It came off the car immediately, because that is a failure waiting for the first fast road it sees.
A parking scrape had polished a stripe off the rim and the owner assumed the worst. The sidewall was intact, no soft spots, nothing internal. The tyre stayed on the car, the bill was small, and that is a perfectly good outcome for everybody.
Low mileage, plenty of tread and a network of fine cracks around the sidewall shoulders. Age does that to rubber whether the car moves or not. With winter coming, replacing them was the honest recommendation and it had nothing to do with tread depth.
Yes. It means the cords inside have snapped and air pressure alone is holding the shape. There is no repair, no monitoring it, no waiting until payday. Park the car and call, rather than taking it up the A23.
Depth is what counts. If it stops within the rubber, the tyre normally carries on. If you can see cord or the cut runs deep in the sidewall, it is finished. That judgement needs eyes on it, not a photograph.
Possibly, or it may just be balance weights that have come off. A tyre with a distorted casing shakes at a particular speed and a wheel out of balance shakes at another. Either way it is worth checking before it wears a suspension part out.
There is no legal age limit for an ordinary car tyre, but rubber hardens and cracks over time. Once the sidewall shows cracking that goes into the flex zone, the number of years stops mattering and the condition decides it.
No. A good share of these calls end with the tyre staying where it is. The 4.9 star rating comes from people who were told to keep their money as much as from anyone who bought something.
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