Tyre sizes are not a suggestion. Every car is built with a set clearance between the top of the tyre and the arch liner, and between the inner shoulder and the suspension leg, and those gaps are measured in millimetres once the suspension is loaded and the wheel is on full lock. Fit something wider or taller than the car was designed around and the tyre starts finding the liner on every tight turn.
The damage that follows is slow and then sudden. A plastic liner edge works like a very blunt blade. It polishes a band around the shoulder, then shaves the rubber off it, and eventually the cords underneath are running exposed. The tyre holds air the whole time. Then it opens at the shoulder, usually at speed.
Most of the cars we see this on had a wheel or a tyre changed in a hurry by somebody who fitted a size that was close rather than correct. If your steering has picked up a rubbing noise on full lock, get it looked at before the shoulder makes the decision for you.
Recovery is the wrong tool for a burst tyre. We finish the job instead: one call, a technician on the way to your exact location in SW17, replacement stock already in the van, and a live ETA so the wait has a number on it. Same tools in Furzedown as in Bec Common, same on every call. Valve in Furzedown, balance in Bec Common, pressures before we go.
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Nothing about driving in Tooting is kind to a tyre already touching something it should not. Turning full lock into a bay on the terraced streets around Furzedown, mounting a kerb edge to let a bus by on Mitcham Road, the constant slow shuffling in and out of spaces: each one presses the shoulder into the liner, and the wear ends up on the face nobody looks at.
A driver kept hearing a scuff turning out of a permit bay off Garratt Lane and put it down to a loose liner clip. The nearside front had been fitted a size wider than the other three. Its outer shoulder was worn through to cord in one narrow band.
Three matching tyres and one that was not, bought that way and never questioned. The odd one stood taller than the rest, and the arch liner above it had a bright polished groove worn into the plastic where the tread had been touching.
A car lost its offside front in slow traffic at Amen Corner. The break ran along the shoulder in a straight line rather than tearing across the tread, which is what a liner does over months rather than what a pothole does in a second.
Compare all four sidewalls. The three figures are the width, the profile and the rim diameter, and they should at least match across an axle. If one is out, that tyre stands wider or sits higher in the arch than it should.
No. Repairs are confined to the central band of the tread, and shoulder damage sits outside it in every case. Where cords have been ground away rather than punctured, there is nothing left to bond a patch to. It is a replacement.
Not once it is touching something. Whatever width gains you, it loses the moment the shoulder is worn away by the liner or a spring seat. The size the car was approved on is printed on the door plate.
Usually only the odd ones. If three are correct and one is not, the one comes off. Where a previous owner moved the whole set to a size the car was never built for, we will tell you what it should be on and leave the timing to you.
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