The tyre that fails at seventy on the A3 was usually broken well before that, and broken somewhere else entirely.
The lanes produce a different sort of damage. Downside Road and the Tilt are narrow enough that passing means putting a wheel into the hedge line, where cut thorn, flint and broken kerb take the shoulder rather than the tread. Those cuts look trivial and some of them are, but a cut that reaches the belt lets water into steel.
What settles it is taking the wheel off and looking at both faces, which is the only assessment worth having.
A cut from road debris is the one that catches out careful drivers. Where it is beyond repair, the replacement goes on at the car in The Tilt, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. Stoke Road, the A3 and the streets around Downside sit inside Surrey. The wheel comes off in Stoke d'Abernon, not on a ramp in Weybridge. Stock for Fairmile, stock for Downside, stock for anything on the A3.
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Between the A3 on one side and the unlit lanes on the other, Cobham produces both kinds of broken tyre: the violent one that happens at speed, and the slow one that starts as a cut in a hedge line. Neither is properly diagnosed with the wheel still on the car, so we take it off, look at the inner liner, and tell you what it is rather than what would be easiest to sell.
The damage sat on the inner sidewall of a large SUV, hidden behind the arch and only found once the wheel was off the car. It had been driven for a fortnight since a hard hit at the junction 10 roundabout, and it was very close to going.
A car on twenty one inch rims near the High Street had almost no sidewall to absorb a kerb strike. The alloy took a nick and the tyre took a gouge deep enough to expose cord. Big wheels look good and leave nothing between the rim and the road.
A second car at a house on Fairmile had done very little in four years. The tread was practically unworn, but the rubber had gone hard and fine cracks ran around the bead. Age had finished those tyres long before mileage would have got near them.
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Because the failure had already begun internally. Once the casing cords are broken the tyre carries on holding pressure until heat and flexing open the weak spot. Nothing was visible for you to spot, which is why an inspection after a heavy pothole is worth having.
They matter if they reach the belt. The shoulder flexes constantly and any cut there opens and closes thousands of times a mile, so it works deeper rather than staying put. We measure the depth instead of guessing from the surface.
Often. If the rim has taken a strike hard enough to mark it, the sidewall was pinched at the same instant. We check the flange for a flat spot as well as looking at the rubber, since a distorted rim also leaks slowly around the bead.
Yes. The four figure code on the sidewall gives the week and year of manufacture. Rubber hardens over time and wet grip drops away well before the tread does. On a low mileage car this is usually the reason a tyre needs changing.
No, the opposite. A nail in the tread band of a sound casing gets repaired and we say so, because that is cheaper for you and better for the tyre. A tyre is only condemned when the structure has actually failed.
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