A blowout does not always begin in the rubber you can see. The valve is a short rubber stem pushed through a hole in the rim and held there by its own tension, and at speed the air rushing past bends it backwards while the wheel tries to throw it outwards. Rubber that has done that through eight winters goes hard, and hard rubber cracks at the base where it flexes.
When one tears there is no puncture and no useful warning. The tyre empties through a hole the size of a pencil in about two seconds, which at speed feels exactly like a burst because in every way that counts it is one. The steering goes heavy on that corner and the casing is already being crushed between rim and road while you are still braking.
That is why the tyre so rarely survives. The valve is a small item with a short life and the tyre is what pays for it. If a car has gone from sound to flat in the time it took to react, stop where you safely can and call.
If it went on Rye Lane, you already know how little room there is to deal with it. We are out around Peckham town centre and Nunhead through the night and on bank holidays. Level in Nunhead, sloping in Bellenden: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Bellenden or Queens Road is worth flagging.
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Queens Road and the run towards the Old Kent Road carry enough traffic that a car losing a tyre suddenly has very little room to get clear. There is rarely a verge to aim for, only a kerb and a solid line of parked cars. We bring the right size to wherever you stopped, so the car stays put until it has a tyre that can carry it.
A driver felt one corner drop with no bang and nothing in the road behind. The stem had split around its base and pulled half out of the rim. It had run flat far enough to shred the liner.
Sometimes the stem tears off and leaves its collar sitting inside the rim. On a car stopped near Peckham Rye station the remains had to be pushed through from inside before a new valve would seat.
A car looked over after one valve let go had a second stem cracking the same way on the opposite wheel. Valves age together because they live the same life. That one was changed early.
Usually none worth having. A perished stem looks intact from outside and shows its cracks only when bent over, which nobody does at a petrol station. A tyre wanting air every few weeks for no traceable reason is the nearest thing to one.
Almost never, and the running flat decides it rather than the valve. Once a tyre has been squashed between rim and road the liner tears and the walls scuff apart from within. A patch must bond to sound rubber and none is left.
Come off the power rather than braking hard, hold the wheel straight and let the car slow itself, then get as far off the running lane as the road allows. Hazards on, everyone out on the pavement side if traffic is close.
It follows age and standing time rather than badge. A car that sits for weeks then gets driven hard is the usual candidate, since the rubber hardens while the wheel is still. Pressure sensors use a metal stem and fail far less often.
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