The bead is the part of a tyre nobody thinks about until it fails. It is a hoop of steel wire encased in rubber at each inner edge, and it is what clamps the tyre against the rim and holds the air in. Damage it and the tyre does not go down slowly, it unseats and deflates all at once, which is a very different experience from a slow puncture. The usual causes are a hard kerb strike at an angle, running the tyre flat, or a careless fit where the bead was dragged over the rim flange without lubricant.
The visible signs are a nicked or torn edge on the inner face and, sometimes, a section where the tyre no longer sits evenly against the rim. It cannot be repaired, because the bead is structural and it is right at the edge of the tyre where nothing bonds well. Once we see it the tyre comes off, and we check the rim flange at the same time because whatever hurt one very often marked the other.
Kerbs and potholes do most of the damage in West Molesey, and they rarely do it while you are looking. You do not drive it anywhere first, and nothing gets towed off the A308. Same tools in Kent Town as in Bridge Road, same on every call. Valve in West Molesey, balance in East Molesey, pressures before we go.
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West Molesey's residential grid is tightly parked and the kerbs are close, which is where most of the bead damage we see begins. If a tyre has deflated completely in seconds rather than losing air over a day, mention that when you ring. It changes what we expect to find and it usually means bringing a replacement rather than planning on a repair.
Sudden total deflation rather than a gradual loss usually means the bead has unseated rather than something having pierced the tread. It is worth knowing which happened.
Dragging a tyre over a rim flange without lubricant cuts the rubber that seals against the wheel. It leaks straight away or it leaks in six months, and nobody ever suspects the fitting.
The parked-tight streets around Molesey Park leave very little room in the last few inches of a manoeuvre, and a kerb met at an angle can roll the tyre off its seat.
No. It is structural, it sits at the very edge of the tyre and nothing can be bonded there reliably. A damaged bead means a replacement.
A puncture usually leaks. A bead that unseats releases everything at once, so a sudden deflation with no object in the tread points that way.
It can, if the tyre was forced over the flange without lubricant or with the wrong technique. We use lubricant and the proper equipment for exactly that reason.
Yes. Whatever damaged the bead very often marked the rim flange as well, and a marked flange will leak past a brand new tyre.
In most cases yes, from van stock, seated, balanced and torqued at the vehicle, with the old casing taken away for recycling.
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