People describe it in all sorts of ways over the phone: a blister, a bubble, a lump, a soft spot, a nick that looks deeper than it ought to. Every one of those is worth a look, because a tyre gives away very little from the outside and what matters is the state of the fabric underneath.
Assessment is a good share of what we get asked for around this town. Fast A-road miles fling debris into tread, the run to the motorway keeps everything hot, and kerbs on the older streets at Flamstead End and Bury Green account for most of the rest. The verdict is what you are paying for. Cords snapped, casing cut through to the belt, a split that has opened up, and the tyre is finished. Surface scuffing with sound rubber behind it, and it stays on the car. Telling someone their tyre is fine costs us one job and keeps a customer, which is the trade we would make every time.
Most damaged tyres are not dramatic. They come from a kerb taken slightly too fast on the A10, a pothole nobody saw, or a bulge noticed while walking back to the car in Goffs Oak. A Bury Green cul-de-sac or a Theobalds Grove main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Waltham Cross or a narrow bay on Turners Hill is usually workable.
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The pattern here is impact damage rather than slow wear: potholes, debris shed on the dual carriageway and kerbs on the narrow older streets. That kind of harm hides inside the casing, so we would rather look at the car in your own parking space than take anybody's word from a photograph.
Pressed with a thumb, it gave where the rest of the wall did not. That is a broken cord even when nothing shows from ten feet away. The tyre came off, and the inside told the story immediately: a bruise from an impact, probably a pothole, weeks earlier.
A driver at Goffs Oak wanted both nearside tyres checked after clipping something on the A121. The front had a genuine cut into the belt and had to go. The rear had lost a strip of rubber from the shoulder and nothing more, so it stayed on. One replacement, not two.
Checked as a precaution ahead of a motorway trip, which is the sensible time to ask. A split had opened along the bead area where it would have been invisible in ordinary use. Far better found on the driveway than at seventy miles an hour.
Structural damage or worn-out tread. The legal line is 1.6mm through the middle three quarters of the width, but a tyre with a broken casing is dangerous at any depth. Both get checked when we look.
Yes, and that is the awkward part. Impact damage and heat damage from running low both happen inside the casing where nothing is visible. Getting it off the rim is the only way to be sure.
Run a hand round the inner face where you cannot easily see, look for anything that is not smooth, and take pressures cold once a fortnight. Most of what we get called to began with a tyre that had been slightly soft for weeks.
Not for balance, no. Each wheel is balanced individually. It matters for grip if the two tyres on an axle are very different in tread or type, and it matters a great deal on a four wheel drive vehicle.
Usually the same visit, since the van comes loaded rather than empty. We look, tell you what we have found, agree what it costs, and only then does a tyre go on.
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