A low profile tyre has very little rubber between the road and the rim, and that is the whole trade. You get sharper steering and you lose the cushion that a taller sidewall provides. When a wheel like that meets a pothole squarely, there is nothing much to absorb the hit, so the energy goes into the rim and into the small amount of sidewall that is trapped between the rim and the edge of the hole. Very often both are damaged in the same instant.
What that produces is a pinch: a short cut or a bruise on the inner face of the sidewall where it was crushed, sometimes with a matching flat spot on the rim flange. Neither is repairable and neither is always visible from the pavement, particularly on the inner face of the wheel. If a low profile car has taken a serious hit, the honest inspection involves getting the wheel off and looking at both sides.
Sidewall damage is the one that catches people out. A kerb taken badly on Byfleet Road will do it as readily as a pothole will. If that is what you are looking at, whether the car is in Weybridge Town or anywhere else in Weybridge, the answer is a replacement, and it is better fitted where the car is standing than at the end of a nervous drive. Old tyres leave Oatlands Village, Brooklands and Surrey with us, every time. You watch it happen in Brooklands, or at the kerb in Whiteley Village.
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The A245 and the A317 collect potholes from steady traffic, and a low profile car meeting one at speed is the situation that produces most of the impact damage we see around Weybridge. If you have hit something hard enough to hear it, it is worth having both sides of the wheel looked at properly rather than glancing at the outer face and deciding all is well.
Crushed between the rim and the edge of the hole, and facing inwards where nobody looks. It takes the wheel coming off to find it, which is why hard impacts are worth a proper inspection.
The aluminium has taken the blow the sidewall could not absorb. It leaks past the bead afterwards and no new tyre will cure it while the flange is out of shape.
Common on low profiles, and it does not mean nothing happened. The damage is on the inner side or inside the casing, and it announces itself later.
By impacts, yes. There is less sidewall to absorb a hit, so more of it reaches the rim and more of it is concentrated in a small area of the tyre.
No. It is sidewall damage, and repairs are confined to the central tread area. A pinch means a replacement.
You largely cannot with the wheel on the car. Turning the steering onto full lock shows you some of a front wheel, and the rest needs the wheel off.
Always. On a low profile impact the wheel is as likely to be damaged as the tyre, and a distorted flange will leak with a brand new tyre on it.
In most cases yes, from van stock in the common fitments, balanced and torqued at the vehicle, with the old casing taken away.
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