A fair share of the tyres we get called out to inspect do not need replacing. Somebody has spotted a mark, or a neighbour has looked at it over their shoulder and used the word bubble, and the assumption is that a new tyre is coming. Quite often it is not. Surface weathering, a curl of rubber lifted off a sidewall by a kerb, a stone jammed between the tread blocks: all of it looks worse than it is.
What we are actually looking for is whether anything has reached the structure. A bulge is a different thing from a mark, because a bulge means a cord inside has broken and air is pushing out into the gap. Cracking counts when it opens as the sidewall is flexed, rather than sitting in the surface. A cut counts when there is something other than rubber at the bottom of it. If none of that is there, the tyre is sound, you keep your money, and we would rather have the call next time than sell you something today.
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 Stockwell Green, balanced, pressures set, old tyre taken away. Valve in South Lambeth, balance in Larkhall, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Larkhall, not on a ramp in Vauxhall.
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Half the tyre damage in these streets is parking damage, done at two miles an hour by somebody who never felt it happen. It looks dramatic and usually means nothing. The other half looks like nothing at all and matters a great deal. Separating the two takes having the wheel in front of you, which is why we come to the bay rather than asking you to bring the car anywhere.
A verdict delivered in passing on the block worries people for days. Half the time it is a moulding line or an old scuff. The other half it is a genuine bulge, and that one is a new tyre the same day.
Cars that stand parked for weeks develop shallow crazing in the sidewall rubber from sun and age. If it is only in the surface it is not worth a penny of your money. If it opens when the sidewall is pressed, it is.
Tight parking means somebody eventually shunts your wheel getting out of the space beside you. Most of that is paint and rubber. We check the rim seat too, because a bent lip leaks slowly and the tyre gets the blame.
Ask on the phone and you will get a straight answer for your situation. Most inspections happen as part of a visit, and if the outcome is that nothing needs doing, nobody is going to be talked into a tyre to justify the trip.
A broken cord in the sidewall. The casing is what holds the air, so where a cord has snapped the air pushes the rubber out into a lump about the size of a knuckle. It does not repair and it does not settle down. Potholes cause more of them than kerbs do.
Yes, and it is worth doing. An advisory is a note that something needs watching, not a sentence passed on the tyre. It gets a second look, and you are told whether the damage has moved on since the test or whether there is another year in it.
A properly done repair is permanent, and a single patch in the central tread area does not make it a lesser tyre. What we would look at is how many repairs there are and how close together they sit, because a casing full of patches is a different question.
It leaves with us. The old tyre comes off the car and goes away in the van for proper disposal, so there is nothing left propped against a wall outside your block for anyone to complain about.
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