The law is blunt about tyres. A cut deep enough to reach the cords, a lump or bulge caused by separation inside the casing, or any part of the structure exposed, and the tyre is illegal as well as unsafe. Tread depth is the part everybody knows about, the 1.6mm minimum across the central three quarters, but plenty of tyres come off cars round here with far more tread than that and damage that puts them well outside the rules.
That is what a damage assessment is for. We look at the thing itself rather than at a photograph, and the answer comes back as one of two things. Either the casing has survived and your money stays in your pocket, or it has not, and the tyre goes before the car moves again. Both verdicts are explained, and there is no version of this where you get talked into a tyre you do not need.
In SE10 the usual cause is contact rather than wear. The setts around the town centre, the high kerbs on the narrow streets and the tight manoeuvring the one-way system forces on people all add up to a lot of pinched sidewalls. A hit hard enough to scuff an alloy has very often squeezed the tyre between rim and stone at the same instant, and that is exactly how cords part with nothing showing that you would notice walking past.
Winter leaves the roads worse than it found them, and tyres pay for it in March. A wheel dropped into one on Blackwall Tunnel approach can split a tyre from the inside without leaving a mark you would notice. We are out on Blackwall Tunnel approach at 2am and in Blackheath at 2pm. The Blackheath phone and the Westcombe Park phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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Impact damage is what we are called out to look at most in SE10, from the setts in the town centre to the tight kerbs on the roads up towards Maze Hill. Inspecting it where the car sits takes minutes and settles the question far better than any description over the phone.
A car near the town centre had a marked rim from a kerb strike, and the owner assumed it was cosmetic. The sidewall had a distinct swelling on the inner face where nobody had looked. Replaced that visit, and the wheel itself was fine.
Good tread, low mileage, and hairline cracking all over the rubber. Tyres that mostly sit in Westcombe Park doing school runs and shopping trips age out rather than wear out, and hardened rubber gives nothing back in the wet.
A gouge from something on Blackwall Lane looked serious and had not reached anything structural at all. The bead sat properly and there was no swelling anywhere. We said so, took nothing for a tyre and left the owner better informed than when we arrived.
Yes. The internal reinforcement has separated and only rubber is holding the pressure in. That fails without any warning at all, so leave the car where it is, even if the drive is only as far as Deptford.
If any cord or belt is visible, or the cut gapes when weight goes onto it, the tyre is finished. Shallow scuffing usually is not. We will show you which one you are looking at rather than asking you to take it on trust.
It is. Cracking and hardening cost you grip in the wet regardless of tread depth, and a car that does short local journeys is the most likely of all to be running on tyres that have aged out.
A good number of visits here finish with nothing sold whatsoever. Honest verdicts earned us 4.9 stars on Google, and that is worth considerably more than a single sale.
Normally yes. The everyday sizes are aboard for cars, SUVs and 4x4s, spun up beside the car, quoted before we begin and the write-off removed for recycling.
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