The Victorian streets around Hornsey Vale and Stroud Green were laid out long before two rows of parked cars and somebody coming the other way, so squeezing in tight against a high kerb is a daily manoeuvre. It is also the biggest single cause of the damage we get asked to inspect. A scraped alloy is only annoying. The question is what happened to the rubber in the same instant, because the sidewall was the part trapped between the metal and the concrete. Sometimes it took the hit and shrugged it off. Sometimes a bulge appears a week later on a road that had nothing to do with it. Pulling the wheel and reading the inner liner settles the argument, since that is where a snapped cord announces itself first.
Big alloys and low-profile tyres look good and break easily. We check both when we come out to Hornsey Vale or wherever the car is standing: the tyre for cuts, splits and bulges, and the alloy for damage, before anything goes back on. Old tyres leave Weston Park, Hornsey Vale and N8 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Crouch Hill, or at the kerb in The Broadway. The N8 postcode and a street in Stroud Green: that is enough.
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Between the Crouch End Clock Tower and the streets running down towards Park Road Pools, the parked-car density means most drivers here kerb a wheel sooner or later. Our advice is unexciting: after a hard knock, look along the whole sidewall in daylight the next day, and if there is a lump anywhere in that line, stop using the car and ring somebody.
Reversing into a gap with a wing mirror folded and a rim scraping the whole way is how most of these start. Bring us out and we will tell you whether the tyre is bruised, cut or genuinely untouched, and there is no sale attached to the third answer.
Once you can see fabric through a gash, the structure has been opened and the tyre is done. It does not matter that it holds air today. Air pressure is the only thing keeping the shape, and the material meant to contain it is no longer continuous.
Cars used for short hops and then left standing all week age their rubber faster than they wear it. Deep cracking around the base of the tread blocks on a tyre with 5mm left is common near Weston Park, and depth alone is not the test of whether it is safe.
Not automatically, but it raises the odds enough to be worth looking. The wheel is harder than the tyre. If the rim took a mark, the sidewall was squeezed at the same moment.
Time is not evidence. A broken cord does not deteriorate in a way you can watch. It holds until the day the load and the heat and the pothole line up, and then it does not.
Some of it. Cuts, bulges and perishing on the outer face are visible. Impact bruising sits on the inside, so anything caused by a kerb or a pothole needs the tyre off to be answered honestly.
Layers of woven fabric and steel inside the rubber that hold the shape against the air pressure. The rubber is essentially a skin over that. When the cords break, the skin is doing a job it cannot do.
Normally on the same visit, from what is in the van, balanced and torqued before we leave. If yours is a size we have to bring in, you will be told that while we are still standing there.
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