A repair works because a nail does not really cut a tyre. It pushes the casing cords apart and slides between them, and when it comes out they close up again, leaving a hole through the rubber and a structure that is still entirely intact. That is the whole basis on which a patch is permitted to exist. It seals a hole in a tyre that has not lost any of its strength.
A burst is a different event altogether. The casing is a layer of cords running from one bead to the other, and those cords are what hold the shape of the tyre and carry the weight of the car. In a burst they have been severed across a length of the tyre or torn away from each other, and there is no putting them back. Anything bonded over the top afterwards is holding air and nothing else, while the part that was holding the car up has gone. There is a second reason as well, and it applies even when the visible damage looks modest. A tyre that has run without air for any distance has shredded its own inner liner, the thin airtight skin on the inside, and folded its sidewalls against themselves over and over. Nothing will bond to that surface. The size of the hole was never the question.
The bang is the least useful part. One call sends a fully-equipped technician to where you actually are in Marylebone, with a replacement on board and a live ETA from the moment the van leaves. A 4am Devonshire Street call and a noon Portman call reach the same fitter. Whether it is Portman in rush hour or Edgware Road at midnight, we answer.
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Almost nothing around Marylebone Lane and the mews moves fast enough to burst a tyre, which is why the failures we attend in W1U are so heavily concentrated on the Marylebone Road and the Edgware Road. That matters for what you should expect afterwards. A tyre that deflated at walking pace in a side street can often be saved. One that let go in moving traffic on the A501 will not be, whatever it looks like from outside, and a fitter who offers to patch it has not looked at the inside of it.
A driver was surprised to be told a burst tyre was scrap when the visible opening was no bigger than a thumb. What decides it is not the opening, it is the severed cords running away from it in both directions.
A tyre taken off after a failure in moving traffic had a straight tear with the cord ends standing proud on the inside. Where a nail hole shows cords still lying parallel and undamaged, this one had them cut clean through.
A tyre driven on for less than a mile after it deflated had an inner surface like torn paper. Even had the original injury been repairable, there was nothing left inside for a patch to stick to.
Because a nail parts the casing cords without cutting them, so the tyre keeps all of its strength and only needs sealing. A burst severs those cords, and a patch adds no structure whatever. You would be gluing a lid onto a tyre that has lost the thing holding the car up.
No. What you can see is the opening, not the injury. The cords tear back from that point in both directions and the affected length is always considerably longer than the visible hole. That is why the assessment happens with the tyre off the wheel and lit from inside rather than by looking at the outside.
It is the thin airtight layer bonded to the whole inside of a tyre, which is what makes a tubeless tyre hold air at all. Running flat destroys it, because the sidewalls fold onto each other and abrade it. A patch has to bond to that surface, and once it is shredded there is nothing sound to bond to.
Only if the surviving one is significantly worn. A big difference in tread depth across an axle gives you different grip on either side of the car under braking, which is worth avoiding. If the other tyre is reasonably fresh, one replacement is a perfectly sensible answer and we will tell you which situation you are in.
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