People assume a bad looking tyre is finished and a normal looking one is fine. Both assumptions get drivers into trouble. A deep scrape across the sidewall lettering, which looks awful, is frequently nothing structural at all. A small dark blister on the inner shoulder, which nobody notices, means the cords have broken and the tyre is a genuine risk.
So we come out and give a verdict. Kerb damage is common round here, because the terraces off Leighton Road were laid out for far fewer and far narrower cars than are parked there now, and squeezing into a gap on a cambered street is how alloys and sidewalls both get hurt. Potholes account for the rest. If the casing is intact and the damage is cosmetic, you will be told to leave it alone. If the cords are gone, the tyre has to be replaced, and we can do that on the same visit rather than sending you off to book something.
You will get a straight driveable-or-not answer before anything else happens. A broken tyre is usually a slow discovery rather than a bang: a kerb strike, a pothole on a road like the A400, a cut picked up who knows where, a bulge spotted while it sat parked up in Tufnell Park. Where the damage is in the sidewall or the shoulder there is no safe repair, and we will not pretend otherwise. The fix is a replacement of the correct size, brought to you and fitted where the car already is, with the wheel rebalanced and the sensor checked before it goes back on. It saves a tow, and it saves the drive to a garage that a damaged tyre should not be making.
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The narrow terraced streets in NW5 do most of the damage we get called to, not the main roads. Tight gaps, high kerbs and a camber that tips the car towards the pavement add up to more kerbed sidewalls than punctures on some weeks.
Only visible with the wheel turned on full lock, which is how most of these are found. The casing had failed after a pothole. There is no repair for it and the tyre came off that evening.
Parking on a slope near Tufnell Park had put a deep graze along the sidewall. Ugly, and structurally untouched. The owner kept the tyre and kept the money.
A car in Gospel Oak had lost a piece of rubber from the tread edge, deep enough to show the belt beneath. That is a replacement, not a patch, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
Bulges, splits, exposed cords or fabric, and cracking in the rubber. Run a hand round the sidewall as well as looking at it, since a swelling is often easier to feel than to see.
It can be. The sidewall gets pinched between the kerb and the rim, and the damage is on the inside face where nobody thinks to look.
That is a large share of these calls. We give you what we find, with the reasons, and you are free to disagree with it.
Less urgent, which is worth knowing. If the car is standing safely, book it for a convenient time. Just do not drive it to the shops in the meantime to see how it feels.
Usually, if the size is with us. Otherwise it is a short wait while the right tyre is collected, and we say which it is before setting off.
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