A bulge in a sidewall is not a blemish and it will not settle down. It means cords inside the casing have snapped and pressure is pushing the rubber outwards where nothing remains to hold it. Nothing repairs that, and the tyre can let go without any warning, which is a poor gamble on the A416 dropping back into the valley.
Most calls of this kind begin with a kerb. The older streets are narrow, cars park half up the kerb out of sheer necessity around Waterside and the Broadway, and a wheel clouting a granite edge pinches the sidewall between rim and stone. The scuff on the alloy is only the visible part. What we hunt for is the pinch itself, a flat area, cracking along the bead, a soft patch that gives under a thumb. Sometimes the verdict is that the tyre is sound and you keep your money. Sometimes the cords have gone. Either way you get the answer with the wheel in front of you.
The damage does not care where the car is parked, and neither does the fix. A driveway in Hilltop, a work car park, a kerbside bay: the van brings the tyre, the jack and the balancer to all three. Blocked drive in Newtown? Open kerb in Hilltop? Either works. Which street in Botley, which way the car sits in Pednormead End, and we are set.
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Narrow lanes and parking half on the kerb are simply how it works around the Broadway and Waterside, so kerb strikes cause more of the damage we get called out to inspect here than anything else. The camber on the steeper streets adds to it, steering the same nearside wheel into the stone again and again.
Noticed while washing the car at Newtown and described on the phone as a slight swelling. It was a broken cord, and it was on a front wheel. There is no honest way to patch that, so a replacement went on and the driver kept the old one to see what we had been describing.
A gash along the shoulder looked alarming but had never reached the fabric beneath. We measured what depth of rubber remained, showed them the gap and left the tyre exactly where it was. Not every visit ends in a sale, which is rather the point of asking somebody to look.
A car left standing for months at Pednormead End had fine cracking right round the sidewalls, like dried mud. Age had done it, not mileage. Tread depth was still healthy and the tyres still had to come off.
Yes, and more importantly it is a tyre waiting to burst. A lump means the cords behind it have already broken, so thin rubber is containing the pressure on its own.
If the impact was hard enough to mark the alloy, it was hard enough to trap the tyre between rim and stone. Kerb damage frequently shows on the inner face, where nothing is visible from the pavement.
Not reliably. Photographs help a little, but much of the evidence sits on the inner face or inside the casing. Looking at the car takes minutes and settles it properly.
Then it is fine, and you have lost nothing except the few minutes it took. We would far rather say that than sell somebody a tyre they never needed and lose every other call off their street.
They do. Rubber ages whether the car moves or not, and a tyre with lovely tread on a perished casing is the more dangerous of the pair. We look at age as well as depth.
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