Is it ruined, or does it just look bad? That is what people actually want to know when they photograph a tyre and send it over, and it is a fair question, because the two are genuinely different.
A graze across the sidewall lettering, picked up squeezing into a short gap on a terraced street, is usually nothing at all. A bulge is the opposite: the cords inside have snapped and the air is pushing the remaining rubber outwards, and that tyre is finished no matter how much tread is left. Between those two sit cuts, splits, chunks out of a shoulder and the fine grey crazing that turns up on cars which spend more time parked than driven, which round the squares of SE11 is most of them. We will tell you which of those you have. Sometimes the verdict is that it is cosmetic and you should keep your money, and that is a perfectly good outcome for a call. When the cords have gone, we say that too, and the replacement can go on the same visit.
Parallel parking damages more tyres than potholes do. Anywhere with tight kerbside bays, Kennington Lane 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 the Cleaver Square area or anywhere else in Kennington, balanced and pressure-set, with no tow and no garage booking. Tight in The Oval, easy in Vauxhall: neither stops the job. Level in Vauxhall, sloping in the Cleaver Square area: we set the car straight first. SE11 takes in the Cleaver Square area and Kennington, and we work the lot.
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Georgian terraces were not laid out with modern wheel widths in mind, and the parking round Kennington Park and the smaller squares punishes tyres more than the driving does. Kerbing, potholes and long spells standing still account for most of the damage we are called to look at here.
A tight turn, a high kerb, and an alloy with a fresh scar. The wheel had taken the worst of it. The tyre bead sealed fine and the sidewall was sound, so nothing needed replacing and we said so.
Only found because the owner knelt down to look properly, which is the half nobody checks. A pothole had broken the casing. Off it came, and a new one went on before the car moved.
A car near Cleaver Square used for occasional trips out to Vauxhall and back. Plenty of tread, sidewalls cracking like old paint. Age had done for the rubber and the fronts were replaced.
No. That is the one piece of tyre damage we would ask you not to gamble on. It fails without warning and rarely at a convenient speed.
Not always, but often enough to be worth a look. If the kerb was hard enough to mark the rim, the sidewall took the same blow from the other side.
There is no single number, but rubber that has gone hard and crazed has lost the properties it was sold for. On a car that mostly sits still, age reaches the tyre long before wear does.
Yes. Being told the tyre is sound is a very common outcome of these calls, and we would rather you trusted the next verdict we give you.
We look at all four and read the tread, because a fault on one usually says something about the state of the set.
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