A tyre is not one lump of rubber. It is fabric and steel wound into a case, with rubber laid over the top to grip the road and hold the air. Nearly every serious fault is a fault in that case, and rubber is very good at hiding what has gone on beneath it. Which is why a tyre can look ordinary and be finished, and why a tyre that looks badly scarred is often perfectly sound.
So the useful question is never how bad it looks. It is whether the case is still intact. A bulge says it is not. A cut down to the fabric says it is not. A tyre driven flat towards the A3036 has cooked its own liner whatever the outside suggests. Meanwhile the everyday kerb rash collected squeezing into spaces around Clapham Old Town is usually skin deep and nothing more. We take the wheel off, look at both faces and inside the casing, and give you a plain answer in either direction.
Winter leaves the roads worse than it found them, and tyres pay for it in March. Water gets into the surface, freezes, lifts it, and by spring there are edges everywhere that will cut a sidewall or pinch a casing against the rim. A wheel dropped into one on Clapham Junction approach can split a tyre from the inside without leaving a mark you would notice. That damage is not repairable, whatever anybody tells you, because it is outside the tread area. We come to the car in SW4, confirm what you are looking at and fit the correct replacement where it stands, with the alloy checked while the wheel is off.
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Parking in these streets is a contact sport, and most of the damage we are asked to judge in SW4 comes from kerbs, drain edges and speed humps rather than anything dramatic on the A24 (Clapham High Street). Since the injury usually ends up on the face you cannot see, the assessment happens with the wheel off at the kerb.
The owner had been watching it grow for a fortnight and hoping. Bulges do not resolve. The cords had gone at some earlier impact and the rubber was doing a job it was never meant to do alone, so the tyre came off and a replacement went on.
A car checked over after a hard clout on a drain cover near Clapham Park. Both faces clean, no distortion, no soft spots, casing intact when it came off the rim. The wheel went straight back on and the driver spent nothing.
The tyre had been taken about a mile after it went down, which was enough. The outside looked ordinary. The inner liner had shredded itself into black dust, all of which was sitting in the bottom of the casing.
Broken cords, cuts that reach fabric, splits, distortion, heat damage inside the liner, uneven wear patterns and the age of the rubber. Some of that is visible from outside and most of it is not.
It tells you the wheel took a hit, and the tyre was in the middle of that hit. The damage tends to appear on the inner shoulder rather than where the scrape is, so it is worth a proper look rather than a glance.
It depends entirely on depth. A nick in the surface rubber is one thing, a cut through to the cords is another, and the two look almost the same from a standing position. Do not guess with that one.
No. If one tyre has failed and the rest are sound, you buy one. Where a pair genuinely matters, such as on a four wheel drive car, you will get the reasoning rather than the sales line.
You will be told. A buckled rim leaks past the bead no matter how good the tyre is, and fitting a new tyre onto one is money thrown away. That is a wheel repair rather than a tyre job.
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