A tyre coming apart at speed does not only destroy itself. It becomes several pounds of steel reinforced rubber travelling at road speed inside a wheel arch, and it hits everything in there on the way out. The plastic arch liner is usually the first casualty and is often torn away completely. Behind it sit things that matter more: wheel speed sensor cables, brake hoses, washer lines, and on some cars the wiring loom that runs across to the rear of the car.
So when we attend a blowout, the tyre is the quick part. The rest of it is looking at what the tyre hit before it left. A brake hose that has been scuffed but not cut is the one worth finding, because it will not announce itself and it is not something anybody should discover later. Same with a wheel speed sensor cable pulled out of its clips, which usually shows as a warning light within a mile or two of setting off. A replacement tyre and a car that is genuinely fit to drive away are two different jobs, and we would rather do both while we are there.
A blowout usually damages more than the tyre that burst. The replacement goes on and is balanced where the car is stopped, near Highbury Park included, and you are told plainly if anything else needs attention rather than finding out later. Tight in Aberdeen Park, easy in Drayton Park: neither stops the job. Level in Aberdeen Park, sloping in Drayton Park: we set the car straight first.
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The Holloway Road runs along one edge of Highbury carrying the A1, and it is the local road most likely to be involved when a tyre lets go at speed. The streets in between are quiet and slow, which is a much better place to end up stopped. Wherever it happens, it is worth remembering that the tyre is only the visible half of a blowout, and that a car which looks fine with a new tyre on it may still have picked something up inside the arch.
A failure on the Holloway Road had stripped the liner and marked a brake hose on the way through. The tyre took ten minutes. Finding that took two.
A car that had a tyre let go near Highbury Corner picked up a fault light shortly afterwards. The sensor cable had been dragged out of its clips by the departing tread.
A blowout on a car near Highbury Fields had done no collateral damage at all, which does happen. It was worth the two minutes to establish it rather than assume it.
Most often the plastic arch liner, and after that anything routed near it: wheel speed sensor cables, brake hoses, washer lines and sometimes wiring. A disintegrating tyre is heavy and moving fast and it flails around inside the arch before it leaves.
Not necessarily. A torn liner is obvious. A scuffed brake hose is not, and a sensor cable pulled from its clips usually only shows up as a warning light a mile or two later. That is why it is worth a look while the wheel is already off.
We will find it and tell you plainly what we have found. Some of it we can secure there and then. Anything involving a brake hose is not something to improvise at the kerb, and we would say so rather than send you off hoping.
It costs nothing while we are there. The tyre on the other end of the same axle has covered the same miles on the same roads, and a look at both is quicker than a second call out next month.
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