Broken is a word that covers two very different situations, and only one of them costs you a tyre.
Telling them apart is the whole job. A bulge or a swelling means the cords inside the sidewall have parted and air is pushing into the gap; nothing repairs that. A cut deep enough to show the woven cord underneath is the same story. Fine crazing all over the sidewall is age rather than damage, and on a low mileage car around Moor Park or Eastbury that is a more common finding than people expect.
We take the tyre off the rim and look at the inside when the outside does not settle it, and if the answer turns out to be that the tyre is sound, that is what you will be told.
A cut from road debris is the one that catches out careful drivers. Where it is beyond repair, the replacement goes on at the car in Eastbury, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. A Green Lane cul-de-sac or a Ducks Hill main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Moor Park or a narrow bay on Green Lane is usually workable.
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Northwood produces two distinct kinds of tyre damage. Kerb and pothole impact from the close-parked streets and the A404, and slow ageing on cars in Moor Park and Eastbury that cover very few miles a year. The first shows up as bulges and pinched beads, the second as fine cracking across the sidewall. Both deserve a proper look before anything is bought.
A front tyre on a car parked in Green Lane had developed a soft swelling on the outer wall after a kerb strike a fortnight earlier. The cords had already separated underneath. Impact damage often shows up weeks later like that, which is why a hard kerbing is worth mentioning even if nothing looked wrong at the time.
An estate car in Moor Park had barely covered five thousand miles in six years. The tread depth was close to new and the sidewalls were covered in fine cracking. The date codes explained it, and the honest advice was replacement on age rather than on wear.
The stretch of Ducks Hill Road where the woods close in throws sharp stone off the verges. One tyre had taken a clean cut across two tread blocks, deep enough to show cord. There was nothing to argue about with that one, but the other three were sound and stayed on the car.
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Whether the structure has gone. Tread and rubber can take a fair amount of superficial abuse. Once the cords in the sidewall have parted, or a cut has opened them up, the tyre has lost the thing that holds its shape under load, and no repair puts that back.
No, and nobody should offer to. A bulge is air sitting between the layers where the casing has failed, and a patch on the inside does not restore a broken cord. The tyre needs replacing, and until it is, that wheel should not be doing speed on the A404.
There is no legal age limit on a car, but rubber hardens whether you drive on it or not. Past about six years we start looking closely, and past ten we would be recommending replacement even on full tread. The four digit code moulded into the sidewall gives the week and the year.
Not automatically. A marked rim and a damaged tyre are separate questions. What matters is whether the bead area has been pinched, because that shows up later as a slow leak. We check the seal as well as the visible damage before saying either way.
Yes, and it happens often. A good share of these calls end with the tyre going back on the car unchanged. We would rather be the people who told you a scuff was only a scuff than the ones who sold four tyres on the strength of it.
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