The kerbs by the retail parks at Angel Edmonton are high, close, and usually met at an angle by somebody watching for a space instead of the wheel. A good share of the damage we get called out to inspect starts exactly there. The scuffed rim is obvious enough. What the same impact did to the tyre, pinched hard between alloy and concrete, is not obvious, and it can surface weeks later as a soft lump standing proud of the sidewall.
That lump means the cords inside have parted and the only thing holding the air in is rubber. It cannot be repaired and there is no safe mileage left in it. A cut is more of a judgement: light scoring across the tread face is usually cosmetic, while anything that has opened up to the fabric underneath is not. Perished sidewalls, that fine crazing you get in old hardened rubber, turn up more on cars that sit still than on cars that are driven. Our job is to tell you which of those you are looking at, and when the honest answer is that the tyre is sound, that is the answer you get.
Most damaged tyres are not dramatic. They come from a kerb taken slightly too fast on the North Circular, a pothole nobody saw, or a bulge noticed while walking back to the car in Lower Edmonton. Whether it is Montagu in rush hour or Meridian Way at midnight, we answer. On Hertford Road, day or night, Montagu included, arrival across N9 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Between the crossing at the North Circular, the constant stopping along Fore Street and the tight bays behind it, tyres in this area take a hammering from kerbs rather than from mileage. Most of the broken tyres we see locally were damaged parking, not driving.
Spotted during a wash on a drive in Upper Edmonton, on a tyre with plenty of tread left. The owner assumed it was cosmetic. It was a broken belt, and the car had been carrying it at speed on the North Circular for a fortnight. Replaced the same visit.
A wheel put into the kerb while parking near the shops. The alloy was marked and the driver expected to hear the tyre was ruined too. It was not: the bead was seated properly, there was no bulge and no cut through to the fabric, so we left it alone and charged for the inspection only.
A car that mainly does short local trips, with a spare that had lived under the boot floor since new. The tread was untouched but the sidewalls had gone hard and crazed. Old rubber fails without warning, so it came out of service rather than being trusted for the next puncture.
Yes. It is the casing coming apart from the inside, and it usually gets worse rather than better. There is no legal or safe repair for one; the tyre has to be changed.
Worth a look. Hitting hard enough to mark an alloy is often hard enough to nip the tyre between the rim and the kerb, and that damage sits inside where you cannot see it from the outside.
We can narrow it down from a photo, and often that is enough to say whether it is urgent. A firm verdict needs somebody's hands on the tyre, though, which is why we come out and look.
No. Plenty of the inspections we do around N18 end with us saying the tyre is fine. Our rating on Google is 4.9, and that does not come from talking people into things.
The law says 1.6mm across the central three quarters of the tread, all the way round. Grip in the wet drops off noticeably well before that, so a tyre can be legal and still be past its useful life.
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