Stop driving it and let somebody look. That is the whole advice when a tyre has a lump, a split, a deep cut or rubber that has gone hard and crazed, because every one of those means the damage is inside the casing where you cannot see it. A tyre in that state is still holding air, still looks vaguely normal and will still take you as far as Stoke Newington. It just might not.
What we do on these visits is give you a verdict rather than a sales pitch. There are two possible outcomes. Either the structure is intact, the marks are cosmetic and you keep your money, or the cords have broken and the tyre has to be replaced before the car moves again. We explain which and why, and if the answer is the good one we say so and leave.
In E8 the cause is nearly always contact rather than mileage. Squeezing into a space near London Fields, pulling in tight to let a bus through on Kingsland Road, or misjudging a kerb outside the Hackney Empire on a busy evening all trap the sidewall between metal and kerbstone. A knock hard enough to scrape an alloy has frequently hurt the tyre in the same movement, and the harm frequently hides on the inward side, where nobody thinks to look.
An MOT advisory about a tyre is a warning with a date on it. We can look at the car where it sits, in Hackney Central or Shoreditch, and give you a straight view, then fit the replacement there and then if that is what it needs. Old tyres leave Shoreditch, Dalston and E8 with us, every time. You watch it happen in London Fields, or at the kerb in Clapton. Parked near Broadway Market or tucked into Clapton, it is the same visit.
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Kerb and pinch damage accounts for most of what we get asked to look at in Hackney, which is what happens when a lot of cars are parked in not much space. We come and inspect the tyre where it sits, from the streets off Mare Street through to Clapton, rather than trying to judge it from a photo.
A car near Dalston with a scraped rim and a swelling on the inside sidewall that the owner had never seen. That swelling is separation inside the casing and there is no repair for it. Replaced on the spot, and the wheel itself turned out to be fine.
A car that does short trips and sits the rest of the time had good tread depth and fine cracking right across the sidewalls. Rubber ages whether the car moves or not, and hardened rubber has already lost the grip you would want in the wet.
A gouge picked up somewhere on Lower Clapton Road looked alarming and proved to be surface rubber. Bead seated properly, no distortion, no cords showing. The owner was told to keep using it, and nothing was sold.
There is nowhere to drive it to, and you ought not to be driving it in any case. The reinforcement inside has parted and it can fail without warning at any speed. Leave the car and call.
It is worth two minutes. The pinch damage usually hides on the inner sidewall, and that is the face nobody sees from the pavement.
Effectively it does. The rubber hardens and crazes over the years and the grip goes with it, which is why a low mileage car with legal tread can still be running on tyres that should be replaced.
Because a wrong verdict costs us far more than any tyre is worth. If your casing is sound you get told so, and charged for nothing.
Normally yes. Most car, SUV and 4x4 fitments are already aboard, mounted and spun up at the kerb, at a cost you agreed, with the old one carried off.
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