When a tyre lets go at speed, the one on the other side of the same axle has just had the worst few seconds of its life, and it is the first thing worth looking at once the new one is on. As the failed tyre goes down, the load it was carrying transfers straight across. For the whole time it took you to slow and find somewhere to stop, its partner was holding up that end of the car on its own, at speed, deflecting far more than it was built to and heating up as it did. Often nothing comes of that. Sometimes something has.
There is a second reason and it is duller but more common. The pair went on together. They are the same age, they have covered the same miles under the same loads and stood through the same summers. If one has failed because the rubber has hardened, or because an old repair let water into the casing, the other has had precisely the same life. So the partner comes off the rim, and we look at the inner face, flex the shoulder and check the bead area before saying anything. Most of the time it goes straight back on, we tell you it is sound, and there is nothing to pay for having looked.
The clock is the difference between an hour lost and a day lost. Ring a recovery line and you join a queue for a truck that will move the car somewhere else. That includes on Mile End Road, where sitting still is the last thing you want to be doing. Boxed in on a Spitalfields terrace or wide open in Commercial Road, say which on the phone. Tight in Aldgate East, easy in Stepney: neither stops the job. E1 takes in Stepney and Shadwell, and we work the lot.
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There is very little chance of stopping quickly on Whitechapel Road, and Commercial Road is not much kinder, so a burst here usually means carrying on some way before there is anywhere to pull in clear of the lanes. That is precisely the situation this check exists for, because the surviving tyre did all of the work while you were hunting for a gap. Tell us roughly how far you ran on it when you ring, and we will set off with the right stock on board for both corners of that axle rather than for one.
A blowout on the A11 near Aldgate East left the opposite front looking untouched. Flexed by hand it gave up a soft patch low on the sidewall, put there by the same few seconds of carrying an entire axle.
Both rear tyres on a car off Commercial Road were nine years old. One split. The other was crazed with fine cracks between the tread blocks, so replacing one and leaving the other would only have been a short arrangement.
A failure near the Royal London Hospital led to the opposite tyre coming off and going straight back on again. It was sound, the owner was told exactly that, and there was nothing charged for the look.
Because for the seconds between the bang and the car stopping, that tyre carried the whole end of the vehicle by itself at road speed. It also shares its age, its mileage and its history with the one that gave up. Both are good reasons to have it off the rim rather than glanced at.
Only if you do. Most of the time the partner is sound, it goes back on, and there is nothing to pay for taking it off and inspecting it. When it is not sound we show you what we found on the tyre itself rather than describing it to you.
It should, in size, load index and speed rating, and as closely as we can manage in make and pattern. Two very different tyres on one axle grip and brake differently either side of the car, which is the last thing anybody needs at the end of a day that has already involved a blowout.
It makes the check more important rather than less. There is often nowhere to pull in clear of the traffic here for a good distance, and every yard of that was carried by the tyre at the other end of the axle. That is not a criticism of you, it is simply why we look.
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