The most common blowout we attend was caused several days before it happened. A hard edged pothole hit at speed pinches the tyre between the road and the rim flange for a fraction of a second, and in that instant some of the casing cords inside the sidewall snap. Nothing shows on the outside. There is no cut, often no mark on the wheel, and the tyre holds pressure perfectly well. The damage is called an impact break and it is entirely internal.
What happens next is only a question of miles. Every rotation puts load through a sidewall carrying it on fewer cords than it was built with, the survivors stretch, and eventually the area gives. It tends to give somewhere fast, because that is where the load and the heat are highest, which around here means the A40 Western Avenue. So if you hit something hard enough to make you wince, the tyre is worth a proper look rather than a mental note. A bulge appearing days later is the same damage finally becoming visible, and by that point it is running on borrowed time.
The clock is the difference between an hour lost and a day lost. We do the second, across UB6, with a live ETA so the wait is a known quantity. That includes on Greenford Road, where sitting still is the last thing you want to be doing. The Ravenor Park phone and the the Westway industrial area phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in the Westway industrial area, midday in Sudbury Hill, the same call either way.
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The A40 through Greenford is fast, and Greenford Road and Oldfield Lane carry enough heavy traffic that the surface breaks up quicker than it gets repaired. That combination is what produces impact breaks around here: the damage gets done at low speed on a poor local road and collected at high speed on the dual carriageway a few days afterwards. If you hit something that makes the whole car thump, it is worth stopping somewhere sensible and looking at both sidewalls while you still remember which wheel it was.
A driver hit a bad edge on Greenford Road and lost the tyre on the dual carriageway eight days later. The two events were the same event. We replaced it at the roadside and checked the opposite side of the axle.
A car in Ravenor Park developed a lump in a front sidewall with no puncture and no cut anywhere on it. The impact had happened the previous week and nobody had connected the two.
After an impact failure near Perivale the rim had a small flat on the flange. That was worth knowing about, because a damaged flange takes the next tyre with it.
Sometimes, as a bulge or a slight distortion in the sidewall, and sometimes not at all until it goes. Which is why a hard pothole strike deserves a proper look at both sidewalls rather than a glance at the tread.
No. The cords in that area have already broken and nothing bonds a broken cord back together. A sidewall sits outside the repairable area of a tyre in any case, so the answer arrives from two directions at once.
Yes, and it is. The same impact that breaks cords can flatten or crack the rim flange, and a damaged flange will damage whatever tyre goes on next and can stop the bead sealing properly.
Keep the wheel straight, come off the power without stamping on the brakes, and let the car slow before steering for the edge. Get as far from the live lanes as you can, everybody out on the far side, then call us.
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