Not all tyre damage comes from the road. A machine used carelessly leaves its own marks, and they are recognisable once you know what to look for: a bright scrape along the bead where a lever has been dragged, a nicked or deformed bead bundle, or a rim lip with a fresh line across the paint. A damaged bead is a genuine problem, because that is the ring that has to seal against the wheel, and once it has been chewed the tyre will leak slowly for the rest of its life and nobody will be able to explain why.
So when a call comes in about a tyre that keeps going soft with no puncture in it, the bead is the first place to look after the valve. It is one of the reasons the tyre always comes off the rim rather than being inspected in place. If the bead has been damaged there is no repair for it and the tyre needs replacing, and you get shown the mark. If everything is sound, the leak is somewhere else and cheaper to fix than you feared.
Kerbs and potholes do most of the damage in Reading, and they rarely do it while you are looking. You find it later: a scuff that has gone through to the cords, a split along the shoulder, a lump in the sidewall that was not there last week. You do not drive it anywhere first, and nothing gets towed off the A33. The A329(M), the A4 and the streets around Earley sit inside Berkshire. Your receipt reaches Whitley, Lower Earley and the A4 by text before we go. Valve in Caversham, balance in Tilehurst, pressures before we go.
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A tyre that quietly loses air with no nail in it is one of the more common calls around Reading, and the cause is very often the last fitting rather than the road. The bead and the wheel seat get checked with the tyre off the rim, which is the only way to see either of them. If the tyre is sound you keep it and the fix is a cheap one.
A car in Tilehurst had been back to a bay twice with a slow leak and no puncture. The bead had been nicked during a previous fitting and was weeping air all round.
A tyre off a car in Earley had drag scrapes right along the bead. It had been forced onto the rim rather than eased on, and it never sealed properly.
A slow leak near Whitley turned out to be corrosion on the wheel where the tyre seats. Cleaning it back solved it and the tyre stayed on.
Air escapes at the bead and at the valve as readily as through the tread. Both are invisible with the wheel on the car, which is why it comes off the rim to be checked.
No. It is the sealing ring of the tyre and there is nothing to mend it with, so a damaged bead means a replacement.
Almost always during a previous fitting, from a lever dragged across it or a machine used in a hurry. It is not something the road does.
Frequently, and that is good news because cleaning the seating area back usually sorts it. Both get checked while the tyre is off.
Yes. A mark on a bead is easy to see once it is pointed out, and you should be able to see the reason for any verdict.
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