Every tyre carries its age on the sidewall: four digits in an oval, week and year. It is the piece of information nobody ever looks at, and on a lot of cars around here it explains more than the tread depth does. A set that has only done modest local mileage between Elm Park, the High Street and the occasional run out towards Upminster can look nearly new while being old enough to have gone hard.
A damage assessment is that plus everything that shows. A swelling, a cut, a split, a chunk missing from a shoulder, cracking down in the bottom of the tread grooves. We come out and give a straight verdict: this one has had it and this is why, or this one is marked and perfectly fit to keep using. Both answers happen regularly. The point of the visit is that somebody looks properly, with the wheel off whenever the outside does not tell the whole story.
Big alloys and low-profile tyres look good and break easily. We check both when we come out to Harold Wood or wherever the car is standing: the tyre for cuts, splits and bulges, and the alloy for damage, before anything goes back on. An Emerson Park cul-de-sac or an Ardleigh Green main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Harold Wood or a narrow bay on Upminster Road is usually workable.
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Cars around Hornchurch do a lot of short local journeys and then one quick run on the A127, and that pattern is what catches tyres out. Damage collected while crawling around the town centre goes unnoticed until the tyre is finally asked to work hard. If something looks wrong, having it inspected on the drive in Emerson Park is a great deal easier than discovering it at speed on the arterial.
A car used mainly for short trips around Ardleigh Green had tread to spare and tyres well past their working life. The rubber had hardened and the sidewalls were crazed all over. Nothing about the depth gauge said so, which is exactly why the date on the sidewall matters.
Debris opened a slit in the tread that closed up again afterwards and held air for a fortnight. Once the tyre was off the wheel it was obvious the belt underneath had been cut. It was changed, and the driver had genuinely no idea anything had ever happened.
A kerb near the High Street took a deep bite out of the shoulder, showing cord in one spot. That tyre was not repairable and should not have been driven far in that state. The other three were sound and stayed exactly where they were.
On the sidewall, at the end of a longer code, inside an oval holding four digits. The first pair is the week and the second pair is the year. It is worth a look on any car doing low mileage and short local journeys.
Condition tells you more than the number does. Hardened rubber and visible cracking are the practical signs, and any tyre that has spent many years on the car deserves a proper look whatever the tread is doing.
Leave it where it is. At the moment it is the only thing holding the air in. Pulling it out on a driveway in Hacton turns a booked visit into an urgent one.
The one you rang about gets the real attention and the others get a look while the fitter is with you. Spotting a swelling on the far side of the car takes seconds and saves a second call.
Usually, since the usual fitments are already with the fitter. Where yours is an odd size we will say so and bring it, rather than putting something roughly similar on the car.
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