What you are looking for is the four digit code on the sidewall inside an oval, giving the week and the year of manufacture. Alongside it, look for fine crazing in the base of the grooves and around the bead, and for any sidewall gone hard and shiny. Add the flint on the lanes up to Aldbury and Wigginton, which opens a hardened sidewall far more easily than it would fresh rubber, and you get the classic call. An old tyre that has split rather than punctured.
We come out, take the wheel off and tell you which of those you have.
Tyres on the same axle should be a matched pair, and one damaged tyre is where that goes wrong. The replacement itself is fitted and balanced where the car stands in Tring, with the alloy and pressure sensor checked as the wheel goes back on. Old tyres leave Wigginton, Aldbury and Hertfordshire with us, every time. You watch it happen in Long Marston, or at the kerb in Wilstone.
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A lot of the cars around Tring and the outlying villages cover very few miles, and low mileage hides ageing rather than preventing it. A tyre that has sat through ten winters on a driveway at Long Marston or Wilstone can look nearly new and still be too hard to grip properly, and hard rubber is exactly what flint on the ridge lanes tears open. Checking the date codes takes a minute and is worth doing before the tyre makes the point for you.
A low mileage car at New Mill had almost full tread and date codes from well over a decade ago. The sidewalls were crazed and hard to the touch. Nothing had punctured, but the tyres were finished, and the owner had assumed tread depth was the whole story.
A car coming down from Wigginton had a short split at the base of the sidewall where flint had caught it. Old rubber tears where new rubber deforms, which is why that damage finds hard tyres and leaves soft ones alone. It was replaced on the spot.
A slow deflation on a car at Wilstone turned out not to involve the tyre at all. Corrosion on the rim where the bead sits was letting air past. The seat was cleaned back and resealed, and the tyre held pressure perfectly afterwards.
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There is no legal age limit on a car, but most manufacturers suggest replacing at around ten years regardless of tread, and sooner where the rubber has hardened or crazed. The sidewall date code gives you the week and year it was made.
Fine cracking in the base of the tread grooves and across the sidewall, often with a hard, shiny surface to it. It looks purely cosmetic. What it means is that the compound has lost the flexibility it needs to grip and to absorb impacts.
Often it is not the tyre at fault. A corroded rim, a leaking valve or a damaged bead seat all cause slow deflation. We check all three with the tyre off the rim rather than hunting for a puncture that was never there.
No. A puncture is a hole through the tread that can frequently be repaired. A split is a tear in the structure, usually at or near the sidewall, and there is no repair for it at any size. The tyre has to be replaced.
Yes. With the tyre off the rim we look over the bead seats, the flange and the valve, because a fair proportion of what gets blamed on a tyre is actually the wheel that it is mounted on.
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