Lift the boot floor before you need to. Underneath, in the cars that still have one, sits a wheel that has never been out of that well since the factory, and the tyre on it has been quietly ageing in the dark ever since. There is a date code moulded into its sidewall, four digits in an oval, and on plenty of cars it predates the car itself.
That matters because the spare is the plan. When a sidewall gets opened up on a kerb, the thing everybody reaches for is the thing nobody has ever checked. Rubber hardens whether it turns or not, pressure seeps away over years even through a sound valve, and a spare that has sat soft in its well has been creased against the rim the whole time. At that point it is not a spare. It is ballast.
Parallel parking damages more tyres than potholes do. Anywhere with tight kerbside bays, Central 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 Morden Hall or anywhere else in Morden, balanced and pressure-set, with no tow and no garage booking. The St Helier phone and the Ravensbury phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in St Helier, midday in Ravensbury, the same call either way.
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Kerbside space in SM4 is contested enough that most drivers would rather the car did not move at all, which suits how we work. The damage gets assessed where it stands, on a driveway off Central Road or in a tight terrace in Lower Morden, and whatever is under the boot floor gets a look at the same time. Better to know now than at the next kerb.
A kerbed sidewall on a street in St Helier, and the owner wanted the spare put on. It came up with barely any air in it and a date code older than the logbook. We fitted a proper replacement to the car and left the spare where it was, with an honest description of it.
Plenty of cars now carry a canister of sealant and a small compressor instead of a wheel. That kit was designed for a small hole in the tread and nothing else. Against a gash or a bulge it does nothing, which is a poor thing to discover out on the A24.
A full size spare on an older car in Morden Park had held its pressure for years and had good tread on it. We said so, put it on the car, and the owner drove away on a matched size rather than buying something in a hurry.
Look for four digits inside an oval on the sidewall. The first two are the week, the last two the year. Any tyre with a code well into its second decade deserves suspicion however good the tread still looks.
Age on its own is not an offence. Perished rubber, cracking round the bead and tread below the 1.6mm minimum all are, and a tyre that has sat unloved for a decade tends to arrive at all three together.
Ask and we will. It takes moments to lift the floor, put a gauge on it and look over the sidewall, and it is far better to learn what is under there on a driveway than out on the A297.
No. Any bulge, however small, marks a spot where the casing cords have already parted and only the rubber skin is holding. Nothing repairs that, and it will not shrink back with time.
The common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments travel with us in premium, mid range and budget lines. Anything unusual is ordered the same day, and you will be told which of those your car is before we set off.
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