The kerbs here are high, the bays are short, and half the parking in Canonbury and Barnsbury involves reversing into a gap that is barely a gap. Cars get kerbed. Nine times in ten it looks like a scuff on the alloy and nothing worse, but the tyre took the same hit and is the part nobody thinks to examine.
What you get from us on a damage call is a straight verdict. A bulge in the sidewall means the casing cords have failed, so the tyre has to come off whatever the tread depth says. A cut that has not reached the cords may well be cosmetic. Fine crazing on old rubber, on a car that hardly ever moves, is a genuine problem and a common one on streets like these. Sometimes the answer is that your tyre is fine and you keep your money. We would rather say that than sell you something you did not need.
Parallel parking damages more tyres than potholes do. Anywhere with tight kerbside bays, City Road included, produces a steady supply of scuffed sidewalls. If it has gone too far, we bring the right size and fit it where the car is parked, in Highbury or anywhere else in Islington, balanced and pressure-set, with no tow and no garage booking. A Barnsbury driveway is our workshop, and so is an Upper Street kerb. Old tyres leave Angel, Highbury and N1 with us, every time. Canonbury, Upper Street and the streets around Barnsbury are minutes apart.
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Between Emirates Stadium crowds, delivery drivers stopped on the double yellows and bays laid out for smaller cars than people now drive, this borough kerbs more tyres than most places we cover. Damage is worth looking at rather than guessing at, and worth looking at where the car is rather than after another few miles of Essex Road.
Noticed while washing the car and photographed through to us before we set off. The cords had gone. No repair exists for that and no amount of tread makes it safe, so it came off and a matching tyre went on.
An alloy scraped badly enough to worry its owner up near Highbury. The wheel wanted a refurbisher rather than us. The tyre had taken nothing worse than a graze, and we said so and left it alone.
Twice a month around Angel, and the sidewalls had gone grey and crazed. Tread was still legal, which is exactly what makes this one easy to miss. Age had finished the rubber and both fronts were changed.
Yes. It is the casing letting go from the inside, and it does not settle down or heal. Bulged tyres fail suddenly, usually at the worst speed to do it.
No, and nobody honest will offer. There is nothing structurally sound left to bond to. The repairable area is the central tread, full stop.
It can count for more than tread. Rubber hardens and cracks as it ages, and a car that spends most of the month parked in N1 wears its tyres out standing still.
Better not to. Send a photograph when you call, leave it where it is, and let us come to the car. Driving on a damaged casing is how a small problem becomes a blowout on the A1.
That is often the sensible answer. We check its partner on the axle and give you an honest view on whether it is fit to stay there.
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