Kerb rash and tyre damage are two different questions, and they get run together constantly. Rash is the silver scarring on the outer lip of the alloy where it has met concrete. On its own it is cosmetic, it does not leak, and it does not make the car unsafe. What matters is what the tyre was doing in the same instant, because the sidewall was the part squashed between the metal rim and the kerb while that mark was being made.
Sometimes it absorbed the hit and shrugged it off. Sometimes a band of cords inside the sidewall broke and nothing shows on the outside at all until a bulge appears a fortnight later on a completely unrelated journey. The only way to answer it properly is to take the wheel off and read the inner liner, because a broken cord leaves a mark on the inside surface long before it lifts the outside.
Winter leaves the roads worse than it found them, and tyres pay for it in March. A wheel dropped into one on Old Kent Road can split a tyre from the inside without leaving a mark you would notice. Valve in the Camberwell Road area, balance in Aylesbury Estate, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Walworth, not on a ramp in Bermondsey. SE17 takes in Burgess Park and East Street, and we work the lot.
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Walworth is a place where cars live at the kerb rather than on driveways, and the terraces and estate roads around Burgess Park are packed nose to tail. Kerbing is close to inevitable in that kind of parking. The habit worth forming is looking along the sidewall in daylight the morning after a hard knock, because that is when an impact bruise starts to show itself.
The wheel is harder than the tyre, so if the alloy took a mark the sidewall was pinched at the same moment. That does not mean it is damaged, it means it is worth looking at properly rather than assuming.
Nobody connects the two, because the drive on which it appears is usually somewhere ordinary. The lump is not new damage. It is the slow result of cords that snapped when the wheel hit the concrete.
Resident parking around the terraces and estates leaves very little room for the last few inches of a manoeuvre, and the kerbs are high. Most of the sidewall damage we see in SE17 was made at walking pace rather than at speed.
On its own, no. It is a cosmetic mark on the wheel lip. The question worth asking is what happened to the tyre next to it, and that is a separate inspection.
Yes. The wheel comes off where the car is parked, whether that is an estate bay, a permit street or a workplace car park, and it goes back on torqued to specification.
A bruise or a raised area on the inner liner where the cords have been crushed against the rim. It is the earliest visible sign, and it appears there long before anything shows on the outside.
You get told it is sound and nothing is fitted. We would rather do that than sell a tyre to somebody who does not need one.
Stop using the car. A bulge means the structure has failed and it gives no warning before it lets go, which on the A2 would be a serious matter.
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