Sometimes the tyre is the symptom rather than the problem. Wear that sits on the inner shoulder and nowhere else usually means the alignment is out, and it will do exactly the same thing to the next tyre you buy. Wear on both outer edges with a good middle points at chronic underinflation, and wear only up the middle points the other way. Feathering, where each tread block is sharp on one edge and rounded on the other, is a toe angle problem, and you can feel it with a hand run across the tread long before you can see it.
So a call about a damaged or worn tyre here gets the pattern read as well as the depth. It costs nothing to say what the wear is telling you and it saves buying the same failure twice. The legal minimum is 1.6mm across the central three quarters of the tread, but a tyre worn unevenly can be legal in the middle and finished on one shoulder, which is the version people are most often surprised by.
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 New Southgate, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. Level in New Southgate, sloping in Winchmore Hill: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Palmers Green or Bowes Park is worth flagging. N13 takes in New Southgate and Winchmore Hill, and we work the lot.
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Plenty of the tyres condemned around N13 were killed by something other than the road, and the wear pattern says which. Reading it takes a moment and it stops you replacing the same tyre twice in a year. The assessment happens where the car is parked, near the station or on a street up towards Southgate, and if the tyre is sound you keep it.
A car near Bowes Park had a front tyre bald on the inside and legal everywhere else. The alignment had been out for a long time and the tyre had paid for it.
Feathered tread blocks on a car off Bourne Hill, obvious by hand and invisible by eye. Worth knowing before two new tyres went on.
A driver who had not checked pressures in a year had worn both edges of both fronts. The tyres were the evidence rather than the fault.
Almost always alignment. The wheel is not pointing quite where the car is going, so one shoulder scrubs. New tyres will wear the same way unless it is corrected.
A 20p coin is a decent rough guide across the central three quarters of the tyre. If the outer band of the coin shows, get it measured properly.
The 1.6mm minimum applies across the central three quarters of the width and all the way round, so a bald shoulder can still fail even with a healthy middle.
You will hear what the pattern points at. Alignment is not something done here, so there is nothing in it either way, which is rather the point.
Yes, all four and the pressures with them. It takes a minute and it is often the most useful part of the visit.
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