Tyres burst because they get hot, not because they get old. A sidewall carrying less air than it should flexes further than it was built to, thousands of times a minute, and every flex leaves a little warmth behind in the casing. At its proper pressure a tyre sheds that warmth as fast as it makes it. Ten or fifteen per cent low and it cannot, so the temperature climbs for as long as the car keeps moving.
Two things decide how quickly: how much the car is carrying and how fast it is going. Five people, a boot packed to the parcel shelf and a long run south towards Gatwick on a hot afternoon is close to the worst combination available, and it is the one journey a year made on tyres nobody has looked at since spring. For half an hour nothing happens. Then the belts begin parting from the casing, a wobble arrives through the seat, and the tyre goes at once. Get well off the carriageway, hazards on, everybody clear of the traffic, and ring us.
A blowout usually damages more than the tyre that burst. The replacement goes on and is balanced where the car is stopped, on Lower Addiscombe Road included, and you are told plainly if anything else needs attention rather than finding out later. A Waddon cul-de-sac or a Broad Green main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Addiscombe or a narrow bay on Mitcham Road is usually workable.
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Most of the fast driving from around here happens at the start and end of a trip rather than in the middle, so tyres get their real test on the first long run out. Stop-start traffic on the A23 Purley Way never lets a soft tyre get hot enough to warn anybody. Check the pressures cold before the car is loaded up and driven a distance.
A family left a drive off the A232 with the car full and one rear tyre a long way down on air. It let go about an hour out, with the tread already parting from the casing, so nothing was left worth arguing over.
Most plates in the door shut carry two sets of figures, one for normal use and one for a laden car, and the laden set is higher. Hardly anybody sets it. A holiday load on everyday pressures is the easiest failure here to avoid.
One driver ran a slow leak all winter between Broad Green and the Whitgift Centre without it seeming to matter. The first long run of the summer finished the tyre inside forty minutes. Town speeds hide an under-inflated tyre completely.
Because winter never tested it. Warmth comes from flexing, and flexing only turns into damage when speed and load stay high together for long enough. A slow puncture that is a nuisance in traffic becomes a structural problem on a hot, loaded, uninterrupted run.
No. Pressures are quoted cold, and a hot tyre reading a few psi above its cold figure is behaving as it should. Bleed that off and you are under-inflated once it cools, which is the condition that made the heat to begin with.
Never. Overheating breaks the bond between the tread belts and the casing right around the tyre, not only where it tore open, so even the part that still looks sound has been weakened. The old one leaves in the van and a new one goes on.
Usually worth it. It carried the same load on the same journey at the same pressures, so if one corner was neglected the other probably was too. We check all four and run a hand over the sidewalls while we are with you.
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