A bulge in the sidewall is not a blemish, it is a hernia.
So what gets described on the phone as a broken tyre is usually one of four things. Kerb scuffing, which is cosmetic. A cut, which depends entirely on whether it has reached the cords. A bulge, which is finished. Or a split, which is also finished. Telling them apart properly needs the wheel off and a light run round the inner face, because the entry mark is often the smallest part of the damage.
We come out, take the wheel down and show you what the casing actually says.
A bulge in a sidewall is a tyre telling you the casing has already failed. What we can do is come to Denham, confirm what you are looking at, and fit the correct replacement on the spot, whether the car is on a driveway in Higher Denham or parked up in Willowbank. Whether it is Tatling End in rush hour or the M25 at midnight, we answer. On Oxford Road, day or night, Willowbank included, arrival across Buckinghamshire runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Between the M40 and M25 slip roads, the A412 Denham Way and the patched stretches of the A40 Oxford Road, most of the impact damage we see here happens somewhere the driver had no chance to slow down. That sort of strike hides its work on the inner face where nobody looks. If something has thumped hard enough to make you wince, it is worth having the wheel off, and we do that assessment at the address rather than in a bay.
A driver who hit a hole near the Willowbank turning found a soft swelling on the inner sidewall two days later. The tyre had held pressure the whole time. It came off anyway, because a bulge means the cords have gone and tread depth changes nothing.
A car kerbed against the narrow footway in New Denham came back with a rubber scrape along the sidewall shoulder. Nothing had reached the cords and the rim ran true, so nothing was replaced and nothing needed to be.
A wheel taken off in Higher Denham had a short circumferential split hidden under road grime. That is a casing failure rather than a puncture, and the tyre was swapped there and then instead of being sent on its way with a plug in it.
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In practice it means the structure has failed rather than simply losing air. Bulges, splits, exposed cords, a torn bead or a casing that has run flat and broken up inside all count. None of them can be repaired, whatever the tread looks like.
Dangerous enough that we would not take the car onto the A40 with it. The affected area is held by rubber alone, and heat builds fastest exactly where the casing has gone, so failures tend to arrive at speed on a warm day.
Not reliably. We can tell you what to look for, but depth is the thing that decides it and depth is very hard to judge from outside. Getting the wheel off takes a couple of minutes and settles the question properly.
Sometimes. A pothole hard enough to break a casing can flatten a small section of the rim flange, and that will leak slowly for months afterwards. We check the wheel while the tyre is off it.
Not automatically. It depends on how worn the other one is and what the car is driven through. On a four wheel drive it matters far more than on a front driven hatchback, and we will tell you which of those situations you are in.
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