Cars in this part of SW1V often sit for weeks at a time, and that does its own kind of damage. Rubber under the weight of a car takes a set: the contact patch flattens slightly, and if the car does not move for long enough, particularly in cold weather and at low pressure, the flat does not spring back. You feel it as a thumping for the first mile that fades as the tyre warms up, and if it never quite fades then the casing has taken a permanent deformation.
The other thing standing does is chemical. Sunlight on one flank of a tyre parked the same way round for years hardens the rubber unevenly, and the sidewall facing out cracks long before the one facing the kerb. So an assessment on a rarely used car looks at different things than one on a commuter's: how long has it stood, does the thumping go away, is one wall aged more than the other, and what does the date code say. Often the answer is that they are fine and simply need the pressures putting right.
An MOT advisory about a tyre is a warning with a date on it. We can look at the car where it sits, in the Dolphin Square area or St George's Square, and give you a straight view, then fit the replacement there and then if that is what it needs. Old tyres leave Belgrave Road, Warwick Square and SW1V with us, every time. You watch it happen in St George's Square, or at the kerb in Churchill Gardens. The SW1V postcode and a street in the Dolphin Square area: that is enough.
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A great many cars in the Pimlico grid do very little driving and a lot of standing, and that produces a set of tyre problems you never see on a car that works for a living. The assessment happens at the kerb with the car where it is, and if all it needs is air and an honest opinion, that is what you get.
A car near Dolphin Square that had not moved since the spring thumped for a mile and then settled. Pressures were low, the tyres were sound, and nothing needed replacing.
A car parked the same way round on Lupus Street for years had crazing on the kerbside wall only. The sun had done that, not the road.
A vehicle standing over a winter at very low pressure kept its flat spots after several miles. That casing had taken a permanent set and was replaced.
Usually not. Rubber takes a temporary set under load and rounds out as it warms. If it is still there after a few miles, the deformation is permanent.
Keep the pressures up and move the car occasionally, even a few hundred yards. Standing at low pressure over a cold spell is the worst combination.
Sun. A car parked the same way round for years ages the flank that faces the light far faster than the one facing the kerb.
No, it means they age instead of wearing. The date code on the sidewall matters more than the tread depth on a car like that.
Yes. Plenty of these visits end with the pressures set and nothing sold, which is a perfectly good outcome.
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