A common belief worth correcting: a tyre that is holding air is not necessarily a tyre that is safe. Bulges, cuts, splits and hardened perished rubber all pass the only test most drivers apply, which is whether it looks flat. What we do on these calls is give you a verdict on the actual condition of the casing, and there are only two answers. Either the tyre is sound and nothing needs paying for, or the structure inside has failed and it goes today. Kerbing hard enough to mark an alloy has very often hurt the tyre too, even when nothing shows.
The damage does not care where the car is parked, and neither does the fix. A driveway in Austenwood, a work car park, a kerbside bay: the van brings the tyre, the jack and the balancer to all three. Valve in Station Road, balance in Camp Road, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Bull Lane, not on a ramp in Beaconsfield.
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Kerb and pothole damage is what brings most of these calls in, from the tight parking on Packhorse Road to the narrow lanes around Chalfont Heights. We would rather look at a suspect tyre where it stands than have you drive it anywhere to be inspected.
Noticed on a driveway near Austenwood after a pothole a week earlier. A bulge means the cords under the rubber have snapped and only the rubber is holding the air back. It is among the handful of faults that give no notice at all, so it was replaced there and then.
A second car that mostly sits still had good tread and a spider's web of fine cracks across both sidewalls. Rubber ages whether it turns or not. Tread depth said fine, the tyre said otherwise, and age won the argument.
A deep-looking gouge picked up against a kerb on Camp Road was rubber deep and no further, with nothing structural showing and the bead sitting exactly where it should. We told the owner it was fine and left without selling anything.
No. Not up the A413 and not round the corner. That casing has already failed and speed is what finishes it off. Leave the car and ring us.
Depth and whether any cords are visible. We open the area up, look at it properly and show you what we are seeing, so the decision is not a matter of taking our word for it.
If the rubber has hardened and crazed, yes. Grip falls away long before the 1.6mm legal limit arrives, and a low mileage car is the most likely one to be running on aged tyres.
In a town this size that would be a short-lived way to trade. Quite often the verdict is that nothing needs doing, and we leave having sold you nothing at all.
Now, in most cases. The usual fitments for cars, SUVs and 4x4s ride around with us, get fitted and spun up where the car stands, and the dead one leaves in the back.
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