Someone glances down while waiting at the lights on Shoot-Up Hill, sees a swelling on the sidewall of the car in front and wonders whether their own tyres look like that. It is a fair thing to wonder, because a bulge is the one form of damage that gives no warning before it fails. It means the cords inside the casing have broken and the air is pushing out through what is left, and no amount of remaining tread makes that tyre usable. Cuts, splits, missing chunks and cracked, hardened rubber are the other things we get called out to look at, and the honest answer is sometimes that your tyre is fine.
Run your hand round the inside of the sidewall, slowly, with the car on the ground. What there is, is a replacement brought to you: correct size, fitted and balanced where the car stands in NW6, with the alloy and the sensor checked while the wheel is off. The wheel comes off in Shoot-Up Hill, not on a ramp in Cricklewood. Nothing is towed out of the Willesden Lane area or Brondesbury; the work finishes there. The NW6 postcode and a street in West Hampstead: that is enough.
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Between the packed permit streets around Willesden Lane and the constant traffic on the A5, cars in Kilburn get kerbed far more than they get punctured. Most damage calls here start with a bad parking manoeuvre, and looking at the tyre where it sits is quicker than working out who can inspect it and when.
A picture of a sidewall lump arrived before we did, so the right size was already in the van. The cords had gone. Replaced that afternoon without a second trip.
A tight gap and a high kerb had left a nasty looking gouge across the lettering. The casing beneath was untouched. Nothing wanted doing and we left it on the car.
Used for a short trip most weekends and little else. The tread was legal, the sidewalls were crazed with fine cracks all over. Age had done the damage and both were changed.
It is not something to plan around. Stop using the car and get it looked at, because bulged casings fail suddenly and usually at speed.
Yes, and it is worth doing. The kerb traps the sidewall against the wheel edge, so the harm can sit on the inner face, which nobody inspects until something goes wrong.
Not really. Tread depth and rubber condition are separate things, and on cars in NW6 that do very few miles, the rubber is often what expires first.
Yes, and often enough we do. A verdict that leaves you with the tyre you already own is worth more to us than something sold on a maybe.
All four get a look and the tread gets measured, since the 1.6mm limit applies across the middle three quarters and people are often closer to it than they think.
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