You meet something coming the other way on a narrow street, you take the nearside a little close, and there is a solid thump through the steering. Afterwards there is a grey scuff along the tyre shoulder that looks like nothing much at all. The tyre is the part you can see, which is why the tyre is the part everybody blames. The rim behind it took the same blow, and an alloy hit hard enough to mark the rubber has very often had its lip flattened or cracked where the bead sits.
That makes this an inspection job rather than a guessing job. A finger run round the inside of the rim edge finds a flat spot you would never see with the wheel still on the car. A bulge on the sidewall means broken cords, and the tyre is finished whatever the rest of it looks like. A wheel losing four or five pounds a week with nothing in the tread is usually leaking past a damaged bead seat rather than punctured. And sometimes the verdict is that the shoulder has lost a bit of rubber, the tyre is sound, and you keep your money.
Sometimes it is the wheel rather than the tyre. So when we come out in Soham the wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and both get inspected before anything else is said. A Brook Dam Lane cul-de-sac or a Station Road main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Qua Fen or a narrow bay on the B1104 is usually workable.
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Kerb damage is this town's quiet speciality. The centre streets around Fountain Lane and Pratt Street were never laid out for two rows of parked cars and something wide coming through. Out past the houses, the drove edges drop away sharply where the tarmac has broken up. Both put a wheel into something solid. Having it looked at on the drive costs a phone call, and it is far cheaper than finding out at speed.
A lump standing proud of the sidewall is broken cord underneath, and a tyre in that state can let go without warning. It cannot be repaired and it should not be driven on, not even as far as somebody who will confirm it.
Steady vibration through the steering after a kerb strike normally means the rim itself is out of true. Weights will not cure that, and we will say so rather than sell you a tyre that changes nothing.
The older centre streets are tight, and parking half up a high kerb is how a lot of alloys get caught. We come to the car and check the tyre and the rim together before you drive on it again.
About as serious as it gets on a tyre. The cords in that patch have already broken and only rubber is holding the air in, so it can burst at speed with no warning at all. It is an instant test failure and it deserves to be.
Because plenty of leaks are not punctures. A bent rim edge or corrosion under the bead will let air past slowly with nothing to find in the tread. Learning which it is means getting the tyre off the rim and looking at the seat.
Sometimes, if the damage sits on the outer lip. More often the flat spot is on the inner face where it is hidden, so the wheel comes off and the tyre comes off the rim, which is the only honest way to check.
Regularly. Kerb rash that has taken rubber off the shoulder, with no bulge, no exposed cord and no cut into the casing, is cosmetic. We would sooner say that and be called again than sell somebody a tyre they did not need.
It goes on the van and away with us for disposal, which is part of the job. You are not left with a scrap tyre standing in the garage or a trip to the tip on top of everything else.
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