Two things break tyres in New Malden and they leave completely different marks.
Impact damage is the one that catches people out, because on the day it often shows nothing at all. The bulge appears a fortnight later, by which time the kerb strike has been forgotten. Kerb scuffing is usually visible but rarely structural, and a graze that has not reached the cords is not a reason to buy anything.
So the assessment is worth doing properly. We take the tyre off the rim when the outside is not conclusive, look at the inner surface, read the date code, and give you one of two clear answers rather than a shrug.
Sometimes it is the wheel rather than the tyre. So when we come out in New Malden the wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and both get inspected before anything else is said. Give us Motspur Park, Coombe or a spot on the A3 and the van routes it. An Old Malden cul-de-sac or a Norbiton main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Worcester Park or a narrow bay on Burlington Road is usually workable.
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The A3 supplies New Malden with impact damage and the residential grids supply it with kerb damage, and the two need looking at in different ways. A bulge from a pothole is structural and terminal. A scuff from a parking manoeuvre usually is not. Knowing which one you have is worth more than any opinion about the make of tyre.
A front tyre took a hard hit near the industrial units and looked untouched. Ten days later a soft egg shaped swelling had come up on the outer wall. The cords had parted at the moment of impact and simply took a while to show, which is the usual pattern with these.
A car that lived in the streets off Coombe Road had legal tread through the middle and almost nothing left on the outer edges, from years of tight low speed manoeuvring. That is wear rather than damage, but it was past the point of being safe and the pair were replaced.
Something sharp off the A3 had opened a clean gash across two tread blocks on a rear tyre, deep enough to show the weave underneath. Once the cord is visible the argument is over. The other three were sound and were left exactly where they were.
No. A swelling means air has got between the layers because the casing has failed, and there is nothing sound to bond a patch to. It is also the sort of failure that lets go suddenly rather than gradually, so it is not one to leave on the car while you think it over.
It can be. Uneven wear across a tyre, a damaged casing or a wheel knocked out of alignment by a kerb strike all show up as a pull. We look at the wear pattern across all four rather than only the tyre you called about, because the pattern usually explains the cause.
Yes, and it is common. The cords part at the moment of the hit but the tyre carries on holding air until flexing works the gap open. If you have hit something hard on the A3 or dropped into a pothole, it is worth a look even if nothing seemed wrong at the time.
Not always. Bulges, deep cuts and age cracking are readable from outside. When the outside is ambiguous, or when a tyre has been run soft, the only honest answer comes from looking at the inner surface, so the tyre comes off the rim and we look.
Then nothing gets done and you spend nothing on rubber you did not need. That outcome is a normal part of this work rather than a wasted trip, and we would far rather give it than talk somebody into a set of four on the strength of a scuff.
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