There is a difference between a tyre that has failed and a tyre that has been damaged, and it decides everything that follows.
The narrow, hedged sections of Marsh Lane and Wood Lane, and the sunken edges on some of the roads climbing towards the common, produce a steady flow of the second kind. A wheel dropped into a pothole edge at thirty crushes the sidewall between the rim and the road. The tyre may hold air for weeks afterwards, and the bulge that appears later is the casing cords letting go where they were bruised.
Age is the other quiet cause around here. A car covering a few thousand miles a year, kept on a driveway in Belmont or Canons Park, can have plenty of tread and rubber that has hardened and crazed. The four digit code on the sidewall gives the week and year of manufacture, and past about ten years tread depth stops being the useful number to look at.
"It still drives fine" is true of almost every dangerously damaged tyre we replace. We do that where the car is parked, in Queensbury, Canons Park or anywhere in between and fit the correct replacement on the spot if that is what it needs. Nothing is towed out of Harrow Weald or Belmont; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Belmont, and the same on Uxbridge Road.
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Two things account for most of the broken tyres we see around Stanmore: impact damage from potholes and sunken edges on the narrow lanes near the common, and the quiet ageing of rubber on cars that cover very few miles. Neither shows up as a flat tyre. Both are found by looking, which is worth doing before a tyre picks its own moment on the A410.
A car in Canons Park came in for a pressure check with a swelling on the inner sidewall the owner had never seen, because it faced away from the kerb. The tread was almost new. It dated from a pothole months earlier and the tyre was replaced that morning.
A hatchback squeezing past oncoming traffic on Wood Lane scrubbed its nearside shoulder along a high kerb. The rubber had gone through to the fabric over a stretch of about four inches. That is not a repairable tyre at any price or in any workshop.
A low mileage car in Belmont had six millimetres of tread and sidewalls covered in fine cracking. The date codes confirmed the age. Tread depth alone would have passed them, but the rubber had aged out and both fronts were changed.
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In practice it means the structure has gone rather than simply the air. A split, a bulge, cords showing through a cut, a separated tread or a tyre that has been run flat all count. Repairs work on holes in sound casings, not on damaged structure.
Yes. A bulge or lump caused by separation or partial failure of the structure is a straightforward fail, and rightly so, because that is the point at which the tyre is most likely to burst. It is not something to leave until the test comes round.
Around ten years is a sensible ceiling regardless of mileage, and sooner if the sidewalls are visibly crazed. Look for the four digit code in an oval on the sidewall: the first two digits give the week and the last two the year of manufacture.
Yes, and it is worth asking for if you have hit something hard on Marsh Lane or the roads up to the common. We check tread depths, pressures, date codes and both sidewalls, including the inner face that you cannot easily see from the kerb.
Sometimes. If both tyres on one side went through the same pothole we look at both, because impact damage is often symmetrical and the second one has simply not shown itself yet. If the other is clean, we will tell you that instead.
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