Once you can see cord, there is nothing left to discuss. The steel and textile plies inside a tyre are the structure. The rubber over them is a wearing surface and a weatherproof skin, nothing more. When rubber has chunked away far enough to expose the belt, the tyre is not damaged, it is finished, and no second opinion or clever repair changes that.
It turns up in one of two ways out here. Either a shoulder has been ground down against kerbs until the belt shows through, or the tread has begun tearing away in chunks because water has been reaching the steel through an old cut and rusting it from the inside out. Both look survivable to somebody standing over the wheel in a car park. Neither is. We come and look, and when this is what we find, the conversation is short and the answer is the same every time.
Sometimes it is the wheel rather than the tyre. So when we come out in UB8 the wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and both get inspected before anything else is said. Level in Cowley, sloping in Hillingdon: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Hillingdon or the Brunel University area is worth flagging.
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The kerbs around the town centre and the retail parks are unforgiving, and a shoulder can be quietly ground away over months of tight parking without anything ever feeling wrong from the driving seat. That is the case for turning the wheels onto full lock now and again and having a proper look at the inner faces. It is thirty seconds and it is where this damage always hides.
A tyre on a car near Uxbridge Moor had been scrubbed against kerbs until the steel showed at the very edge of the tread. It was replaced where the car stood.
Tread blocks were tearing off a tyre on a car in Cowley. Water had been reaching the belt through an old cut, and the rust had broken the bond from the inside.
A driver near Hillingdon Heath was braced for two new tyres after a kerb strike. The damage was cosmetic on both of them, so nothing was changed and nothing was charged for.
No. A patch seals the inside of a sound casing. Exposed cord means the casing is no longer sound, and water will already have travelled along the steel considerably further than you can see from outside.
The visible area is never the whole of it. Damage runs along the belt from wherever the water got in, so a coin-sized patch of exposed steel usually has a much larger problem sitting behind it.
Because on most cars it is on the inner shoulder. Unless the wheels are turned onto full lock you never see that part of the tyre, which is why it is worth a look every few months.
Yes, and it gets done while we are there. Kerbs and potholes rarely take an interest in only one wheel, and the matching tyre has covered exactly the same miles on the same roads.
In most cases, straight off the van. The alternative is leaving a car standing on a tyre you have just been told is unsafe, which is not much of an alternative.
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