Sometimes the tyre was never the problem. An alloy wheel that has taken a hard kerb strike or a bad pothole can develop a hairline crack, usually on the inner rim where nobody ever looks, and a cracked rim leaks. Slowly at first, so the tyre gets topped up every couple of weeks and everybody assumes a slow puncture. The crack then grows, because it is being flexed by every rotation and every load, and at some point the rim opens up properly and the tyre comes off the bead all at once.
Which is why a repeated slow leak with nothing to find in the tread deserves the wheel itself being looked at rather than another patch. It is also why we check the rim after any impact failure rather than only fitting a tyre to it. A cracked alloy is not something to weld and put back under a road car, whatever anybody offers, because the crack starts again from the edge of the repair. On a road like Seven Sisters Road, where the surface takes a hammering and the kerbs around the station are unforgiving, this is a more common cause of a sudden failure than most people would guess.
Two in the morning is when a blowout is worst and when help is hardest to find. A stop on Stroud Green Road at that hour is a call we expect, not an unusual one. Old tyres leave Manor House, Woodberry Down and Greater London with us, every time. You watch it happen in Woodberry Down, or at the kerb in Fonthill Road.
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Seven Sisters Road carries heavy traffic and its surface shows it, and the parking around Finsbury Park station and Fonthill Road puts wheels against kerbs several times a day. Between the two, alloys here take a great deal of punishment that never leaves a mark anybody notices. If a tyre has been asking for air on a schedule and nothing has ever been found in the tread, the wheel is the next place to look rather than the tyre.
A car near Fonthill Road had been having air put in every fortnight with nothing ever found in the tread. The crack was on the inner rim, which is invisible while the wheel is on the car.
A wheel caught hard near Wells Terrace looked cosmetically fine afterwards. It let go three weeks later, and the tyre came off the bead rather than deflating gradually.
A tyre off Stroud Green Road was perfectly serviceable. The wheel underneath it was not, which is never the answer anybody is expecting.
Yes. A cracked rim leaks and the crack grows under load, and when it finally opens the tyre unseats all at once rather than going down gradually. From the driving seat that feels exactly like a tyre failure.
Because they usually form on the inner rim, the face pointing in at the car, which you cannot see with the wheel on. Even with the wheel off, finding a hairline often takes cleaning the rim first. A glance at the outside reveals nothing.
It can be, and we would not put a welded road wheel back under a car. The weld is harder than the material around it and the crack tends to restart at its edge. A wheel that has cracked once has already told you what it does.
That is exactly the pattern worth investigating properly rather than topping up. It could be the valve, the bead seat or the wheel itself, and the tyre has to come off the rim before anybody can say which. Usually it is obvious once it is off.
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