The bays along Hornsey High Street are short, the kerbs are square-edged, and Wightman Road is parked down both sides with traffic squeezing through whatever gap is left. Cars get shoved into spaces here, and the alloys collect the evidence. What is less obvious is that the same shunt which scuffed the rim also pinched the tyre wall against the metal, and the damage that counts is on the inside, where the cords are. So we look, and then we tell you which of the two things happened. A graze through the rubber with the casing untouched is not a reason to sell you anything, and you will keep your money. A bulge, a cut deep enough to show cords, or perished cracking along the wall is a different verdict, and we will not dress it up.
Sometimes it is the wheel rather than the tyre. A hard kerb strike can bend the rim flange enough to leak slowly, and no tyre fitted to it will hold pressure properly until that is dealt with. Car parks near Alexandra Palace, driveways, kerbsides: all ordinary working ground. Whether it is Harringay in rush hour or Wightman Road at midnight, we answer. On Wightman Road, day or night, Turnpike Lane included, arrival across N8 runs 30 to 60 minutes. N8 takes in Ferme Park and Harringay, and we work the lot.
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Between the parking pressure around Ferme Park and the pace of the traffic heading for Wood Green, kerb strikes are the common story in N8. We assess where the car is standing, give you the verdict either way, and only fit something new when the tyre genuinely cannot stay in service.
Spotted only because the owner crouched down to look at the far side. A swelling like that is the casing letting go beneath the surface, and it does not heal or settle. That tyre was replaced the same visit and the owner was glad to have found it in a parking bay rather than at speed.
The rim took a bright scrape and the wall took a crease. Rubber that has been folded against an edge can crack later even when it looks passable now, so we read the wall carefully. In this case the crease was shallow and the tyre stayed on the car.
Low mileage does not preserve tyres. Rubber ages whether it turns or not, and fine cracking across the wall is the sign. The set had years of tread and none of the flexibility left, so we explained what we were looking at and let the owner decide.
Yes, and size is the wrong measure. A bulge means broken cords under the rubber, and the only thing holding the shape is air pressure. They fail without warning, usually at the least convenient speed.
Some of it, and the rest needs the tyre off the rim so the inside can be examined. If we cannot see enough to be sure, we will say we are not sure rather than guess in either direction.
Not automatically. Plenty of kerbed alloys sit on perfectly sound rubber. It depends whether the wall was pinched at the same moment, which is what we check.
Then we say so and nothing gets sold. That happens more often than people expect, and it is the reason the 4.9 rating on our Google listing looks like it does.
Only if you are confident on a jack and the ground is level. Around here it usually is not worth it, and a wheel dropped off a jack on a cambered street is a far bigger problem than a damaged tyre.
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