A tyre can be finished without ever going flat, and Windsor produces plenty of that sort.
The second common cause is age rather than use. Cars in this area often cover very small annual mileage, and a tyre with 6mm of tread can still be a decade old, hardened, and crazed with fine cracks around the bead and shoulder. Tread depth tells you nothing whatever about that.
The third is impact damage from the faster roads, which behaves differently again: no warning, then a bulge or a sudden failure at speed.
Tyres on the same axle should be a matched pair, and one damaged tyre is where that goes wrong. The replacement itself is fitted and balanced where the car stands in Windsor, with the alloy and pressure sensor checked as the wheel goes back on. We are out on the A308 at 2am and in Datchet at 2pm. The Dedworth phone and the Clewer phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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The mix in Windsor is unusual: cars doing high motorway mileage on the A308 and the M4 alongside cars that barely move from one month to the next, and the two fail in completely different ways. One wears out, the other ages out. We read the date codes as well as the tread, because a tyre that has covered four thousand miles is not automatically a good one.
A car used daily in the centre had worn a flat band along one sidewall from repeated kerb contact. The tread had years left in it. The sidewall did not, because the rib that is meant to take that abuse had already been ground straight through.
A second car that mostly sat on a drive wore tyres dated from nine summers earlier. Plenty of tread, hard as a board, cracked right around the bead seat. Those were replaced on the strength of the date code rather than the depth gauge.
A hit taken at the junction 6 approaches did not announce itself at the time. Three weeks later there was a swelling on the outer sidewall about the size of a coin. That is broken casing rather than a blister, and no repair exists for it.
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There is a four digit code in an oval on the sidewall. The first two digits are the week and the last two the year, so 2419 means the twenty fourth week of 2019. If you cannot find it on one side, look at the other; it is often moulded on one face only.
It depends how deep it goes. The raised rib exists to be sacrificed, so light marking is fine. Once that rib has been worn flat and rubber below it is coming off, the casing has lost its protection and the tyre should be changed.
Yes, and it is the thing we most often have to explain. Impact breaks, internal separation and age hardening are all invisible from outside. Tread depth is the easiest thing to check and the least informative when something has genuinely gone wrong.
Check both tyres on that side, look for a bulge, run a hand right round the sidewall rather than only looking at it, and check the rim edge for a flat spot. If anything is unclear, have it looked at with the wheel off before it decides for itself.
Yes, as a matter of course: depths, pressures, ageing and any damage. You get told what we see whether or not it amounts to work for us, and sometimes the answer is that the other three are fine and nothing further is needed.
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