Broken covers several quite different things, and they do not all carry the same bill. A nail through the tread is a puncture and usually mendable.
In Chelsea the usual culprit is the kerb. The granite along Cheyne Walk and the Embankment is high and square-edged, the bays are tight, and a great many cars here run low-profile tyres on nineteen and twenty inch wheels with barely any rubber between the rim and the stone. One firm parking manoeuvre can crush the casing internally while leaving very little to see outside.
So we come out, break the tyre off the rim and show you what is actually there before anything is decided.
You will get a straight driveable-or-not answer before anything else happens. A broken tyre is usually a slow discovery rather than a bang: a kerb strike, a pothole on a road like the A3212, a cut picked up who knows where, a bulge spotted while it sat parked up in South Kensington. Where the damage is in the sidewall or the shoulder there is no safe repair, and we will not pretend otherwise. The fix is a replacement of the correct size, brought to you and fitted where the car already is, with the wheel rebalanced and the sensor checked before it goes back on. It saves a tow, and it saves the drive to a garage that a damaged tyre should not be making.
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Most of the broken tyres we see in Chelsea were broken by a kerb rather than by anything on the road. Low profiles on large wheels give the sidewall nothing to give with, and the damage often faces inwards where you would never spot it. If something looks wrong on the inside face, we will come and take it off the rim and look properly.
A car parked near Royal Hospital Road had a swelling on the inner sidewall the driver had never noticed, because it faced the kerb. That bulge is the casing cords letting go under pressure. It cannot be repaired and it is one of the few faults we will ask you not to drive on at all.
A low mileage saloon kept in a garage off Brompton had seven millimetres of tread and sidewalls covered in fine cracks. Rubber ages whether the car is used or not. Plenty of tread with a nine year old date code on the sidewall is not a tyre in good condition.
A deep looking gash on a World's End resident's front tyre had frightened them into expecting a new set. Off the rim, it had not reached the cords at all. We cleaned it, showed them the depth against the belt and put the same tyre back on.
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Anything that has damaged the structure rather than just made a hole in it: a split or bulge in the sidewall, cords showing anywhere, a separated belt, or a cut deep enough to reach the casing. Those are all replacements. A clean puncture in the tread is a different conversation entirely.
Urgent. A bulge means the internal cords have already failed and the air is pushing against rubber alone. It can let go without warning and it tends to do so under load, which around here means the moment you join the Embankment. Park the car and call rather than driving on it.
Probably, yes. Look for the four digit date code on the sidewall. Rubber hardens and crazes with age regardless of mileage, and a garaged Chelsea car that covers two thousand miles a year will very often reach the end of its tyres on age long before tread depth.
Not reliably, and we will not pretend otherwise. Photographs help, but plenty of serious damage sits on the inner face or only shows once the tyre is off the wheel. Cords showing or a visible bulge are the two we will call as terminal without seeing them.
Not automatically. It depends on how worn and how old the other one is. A sizeable difference in tread depth across an axle affects the way the car brakes and steers, so we will measure both and tell you what the gap actually is rather than assuming.
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