Kerbs are the real enemy on these streets. The bays are short, the roads off Highbury New Park have cars down both sides, and getting into a gap usually means putting a wheel up against granite at an angle. Do that hard enough to leave a mark on the alloy and there is a fair chance something has happened to the tyre too, because the sidewall is the part that absorbed the hit.
Which is what a damage assessment is for. We come and look at what you actually have: a bulge, a cut, a graze that has scrubbed the maker's name away, or the fine cracking that turns up on a car standing still most of the week. Sometimes the verdict is that the tyre is scuffed, sound and good for years, and you keep your money. Sometimes the cords have gone and no amount of hoping will change that. Either way you are told which, in plain words, with the wheel off and the inside of the casing visible instead of a guess made by peering through the arch.
Somebody usually points it out before you notice it yourself. A neighbour, a colleague in the car park, a passer-by who saw the bulge as you pulled in in Highbury Fields. We come to the car, confirm it, and fit the correct replacement where it is parked, on Holloway Road A1 or on a driveway, balanced and pressure-set before we leave. The Aberdeen Park phone and the Drayton Park phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Drayton Park, midday in Aberdeen Park, the same call either way.
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Highbury sits between two heavily used roads while its own streets are narrow and parked solid, so tyres here take their punishment from kerbs and potholes rather than from motorway miles. Kerb damage is easy to overlook, because the mark is as often on the inner face as the outer one. After a hard knock near Highbury Corner it is worth having somebody look properly instead of driving on it for a fortnight.
A swelling the size of a thumbnail means the casing cords beneath have parted and air is forcing its way into the gap left behind. It will not settle down and there is no mending it. This is the one to deal with before the car goes anywhere at speed.
A great many kerb marks are purely cosmetic. Where the rubber has lost its lettering but the shoulder is intact and nothing has reached the cords, the tyre carries on quite happily. Saying so and leaving is better business than inventing a reason to sell somebody rubber.
A car used twice a week around Highbury Barn ages its tyres by standing rather than by mileage. Fine crazing along the sidewall means the rubber is perishing, and once that reaches the point where the tyre flexes, its age matters more than the tread left on it.
Yes. It is a broken casing held together by one last layer of rubber, and it tends to give way under heat or load, which in practice means at speed on a main road. There is no repair for it and no sense in waiting.
If cord is visible, or the cut opens up when you squeeze the rubber beside it, the tyre is done. Shallow nicks in tread rubber usually are not, and you get shown which of the two yours is.
That is a normal call to get. The verdict is the whole point of it. Anything we then do is priced and agreed with you first, so nobody ends up buying a tyre they never needed.
Alignment, most of the time, occasionally a hard knock against a kerb that shoved the geometry out. The tyre is the symptom. We will change it, but have the tracking looked at or the replacement will go exactly the same way.
Not necessarily. If the other one has plenty of tread and matches, one is fine. Where the survivor is nearly worn out or a different pattern, doing the pair keeps the car behaving predictably in the wet.
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