The cheapest outcome of a tyre inspection is being told there is nothing wrong. That happens often enough around Walworth and Newington to be worth saying plainly, because the other version of this trade, where every call ends in a sale, is not how anybody reaches a 4.9 rating on Google.
What does end in a new tyre is a bulge, since that is broken cords inside the casing and no repair exists for it. So does a cut that has opened deep enough to show the fabric beneath the rubber. So do sidewalls gone hard and crazed with age on vehicles that hardly turn a wheel from one month to the next, which is common on streets where a car can sit for weeks. Kerb damage is the awkward middle case: the scar on the alloy is plain to see and the squeeze the tyre took between rim and concrete is not. That one wants looking at properly instead of guessing.
The cost of getting it wrong is a tow, and a tow costs more than the tyre. We bring the correct size to Elephant and Castle or wherever the car is, fit and balance it on the spot and check the alloy while the wheel is off. The Newington phone and the the Heygate area phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in the London Road area, midday in New Kent Road, the same call either way. SE1 takes in Elephant and Castle and Walworth, and we work the lot.
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Cars around here spend a lot of their life stationary in tight bays and take most of their punishment while parking rather than while driving. That is why so much of the damage we are asked to assess in SE1 and SE17 sits on the outer sidewall, on the kerb side.
A nearly new tyre with a swelling on the outer wall after a hard encounter with a kerb. Tread depth was irrelevant; the belt underneath had snapped. It was changed the same visit, because there is no version of that story where the tyre carries on.
A driver expected the worst after scraping a wheel while parking. We checked the bead, the inner wall and the tread, found no swelling and nothing through to the fabric, and told them to keep their money. The wheel looks scruffy and the tyre is fine.
A second vehicle that goes out perhaps twice a month, with tread barely touched and both front sidewalls covered in fine cracking. Rubber hardens with the years regardless of mileage, and a cracked casing tends to go without warning, so both were changed ahead of any failure.
Treat it as one. It is the structure of the tyre coming apart, it tends to grow, and there is no legal repair. Do not plan a long run on it.
If it is only in the rubber and nothing structural is visible, usually not. Once cord shows in the bottom of it, the tyre is finished no matter how narrow the cut looks.
Please do. A clear photo of the damage and one of the sidewall markings will tell us how urgent it is and what to bring if a replacement turns out to be needed.
Yes, and we do regularly. There is no point building a local reputation on selling tyres to people who did not need them.
It does, sitting untouched under the boot floor for years. Cracked sidewalls on a spare are common, and finding out at the roadside is the worst possible time.
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