A photograph arrives at ten at night: a bulge on a sidewall, taken in a driveway under a security light, with the message asking whether it can wait until the weekend. It cannot. That is one of the few things in this trade with a simple answer, because a swelling means the cords inside have already broken. Come and look at it properly, we say, and we do, wherever the car is standing. Sometimes the verdict is the opposite and the tyre is sound, in which case nothing gets fitted and the money stays where it is.
Sometimes it is the wheel rather than the tyre. So when we come out in Huntingdon the wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and both get inspected before anything else is said. Whether it is Hinchingbrooke in rush hour or the A14 at midnight, we answer. On the A1(M), day or night, Hartford included, arrival across Cambridgeshire runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Between the fast trunk roads on one side and tight parking in the older streets on the other, damage around Huntingdon arrives either as impact or as age. We come to the car, inspect the tyre inside and out where it is needed, and give you the verdict without a sales pitch attached.
Parking pressure had pushed a wheel hard into a square edge. The alloy was scuffed and the tyre wall carried a crease. Once we had the tyre off the rim, the inside showed no damage, so it went back on and stayed in service.
Cracking running along the base of the tread pattern, which usually means age and repeated flexing rather than a single impact. That set was near the end regardless, and we said so without dressing it up.
A rhythmic thump felt through the seat that had not been there the day before. It turned out to be a lump on the inner wall of a rear tyre, invisible from the pavement. Replaced immediately, because that kind of failure arrives without warning.
If it is a bulge, no. A casing with snapped cords is not made safe by going slowly or by not going far. If it is surface marking, quite possibly, and that is exactly what an inspection settles.
Almost always a single hard impact, a pothole or a kerb taken at the wrong angle, which pinches the wall and snaps the cords inside it. The lump appears days or weeks later.
Not always. Impact damage to the inner face is common on cars that have hit something with the offside wheel, and finding it means getting underneath or taking the tyre off.
Take one. We will show you what has been found and explain the reasoning behind it, and if you would rather have somebody else look before spending anything, that is entirely fair.
Then nothing is fitted, and you are not out of pocket for a tyre you did not need. That result turns up often enough that it should surprise nobody.
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