There are two separate questions about a damaged tyre and they get muddled constantly. The first is whether it is legal, which is largely about tread depth: 1.6mm across the central three quarters, all the way round. The second is whether it is roadworthy, and that is about condition, which is where most tyres actually fail. A tyre can have 6mm of tread and be entirely unfit for the road.
The things that condemn a tyre on condition are worth knowing because you can check them yourself with a torch. Any lump or bulge in the tread or the wall. Any cut or gouge deep enough to reach the cords, or long enough to be significant. Any exposed fabric or wire anywhere. Any part of the tread or the wall where material is actually missing. None of those depend on how much tread is left, and none of them are repairable.
You will get a straight driveable-or-not answer before anything else happens. A broken tyre is usually a slow discovery rather than a bang: a kerb strike, a pothole on a road like the A24, a cut picked up who knows where, a bulge spotted while it sat parked up in Wimbledon Common. Where the damage is in the sidewall or the shoulder there is no safe repair, and we will not pretend otherwise. The fix is a replacement of the correct size, brought to you and fitted where the car already is, with the wheel rebalanced and the sensor checked before it goes back on. It saves a tow, and it saves the drive to a garage that a damaged tyre should not be making.
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The tight bays around the Broadway car parks and the narrow Village streets produce a steady supply of kerbed and scuffed tyres, and most of them are cosmetic. The ones that are not tend to fail on condition rather than depth, which is why a torch and a proper look is worth more than a tread gauge on its own.
Plenty of tread and a cut through to the cords. The gauge says one thing and the tyre says another, and the tyre wins.
Tread or sidewall, a bulge means the structure underneath has failed. It is one of the clearest condemnations there is and it needs no measurement.
Size is not the point. Once fabric or wire is showing, the casing is open to the weather and the tyre has no defence left.
On depth, yes, provided that is across the central three quarters all the way round. Condition is a separate test and a tyre has to pass both.
Lumps or bulges, cuts deep enough to reach the cords, exposed fabric or wire, and any area where material is missing. None are repairable.
Yes, with a torch and ten minutes. Look at both walls and the whole tread, turning the wheel so you see all of it, and check the inner faces where you can.
Yes, including when the answer is that the tyre is fine. If it is surface marking that has not reached the structure, we say so and fit nothing.
In most cases yes, from van stock in the common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes, balanced and torqued where the car stands.
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