By the time somebody rings and calls a tyre broken, they have usually already decided it is finished, and about half the time they are wrong.
Start with where the damage is. A hole in the flat band that meets the road is a puncture and typically fixable. A slice, gouge or split in the flexible wall between tread and rim is not, because that section flexes thousands of times a mile and no patch will stay bonded there. Between those two is the shoulder, the curved corner, and damage there falls on the wrong side of the line as well.
Then look for the things that mean the structure has failed rather than been punctured: a bulge, exposed cords, tread lifting from the casing, or a rim with a fresh flat spot beaten into its edge from an impact.
"It still drives fine" is true of almost every dangerously damaged tyre we replace. We do that where the car is parked, in Surbiton, Berrylands or anywhere in between and fit the correct replacement on the spot if that is what it needs. Ewell Road, the A3 and the streets around Hook sit inside Greater London. Underground parking in Chessington North or Old Malden is worth flagging. A Surbiton cul-de-sac or a Hook main road, tell us which.
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The traffic around the Tolworth roundabout does a particular kind of damage: slow speeds and hard kerbs on the approaches, then debris and impact on the faster sections. That means the two most common broken tyres here are a kerbed sidewall and an impact bruise, and neither of them announces itself. Both are found by looking at the flanks rather than the tread.
A car picked up a strip of metal on the Kingston Road approach that had scored a deep line right around the shoulder of a front tyre. It had not reached the cords anywhere, so it stayed on the car and we noted where to keep an eye on it.
A hatchback in Berrylands had worn the inner shoulder of both fronts down to the belt while the outer tread still looked healthy. That is alignment, not bad luck, and we told the owner to get the geometry checked or the new pair would go the same way.
A car parked on Tolworth Rise had a clean vertical split in the sidewall exactly level with a fresh gouge on the alloy. Kerbed hard at some point, and the tyre had been holding on since. It was changed before the car moved again.
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Not always. It has to be within the central band, no wider than six millimetres and not so deep that it has cut the steel belts. A long slash across the tread, even in the right place, is usually beyond what a patch is designed to hold together.
It means the fabric or steel structure under the rubber is showing, and the tyre has no reserve left at that point. It is a fail on an MOT and a genuine risk on the road. There is no repair for it; the tyre needs changing.
It is not damage in the impact sense, but a tyre worn to the belts on one edge is just as done. It also tells you something is wrong with the alignment or the pressures, and replacing the rubber without fixing that only buys time.
The four-digit date code on the sidewall gives week and year. Past about six years the compound hardens and grip falls away even with full tread, and past ten most manufacturers would say replace regardless. Low-mileage second cars are where this bites.
If the car is accessible and you have agreed it with us, yes. We will photograph what we find and talk you through it before anything is fitted, so you are not simply taking our word for what was wrong with it.
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