Do not judge a cut by what you can see from the outside. A blade of glass or a sharp stone goes in through the tread as a slot you could barely get a fingernail into, and that slot closes up again the moment the pressure comes off it. Inside, the same object has been dragged sideways by the tyre turning under load, and the wound in the liner can be several times longer than the mark on the surface.
This is the whole reason a repair means taking the tyre off the wheel. Only the inside tells you the length of the tear, whether the steel belt cords have been cut, and whether the damage even sits in the part of the tread where a patch is permitted. A hole over a certain size cannot be repaired at all, and a slice is not the same animal as a puncture however small it looks. Anything pushed in from the outside, by anyone, is a plug going into damage nobody has ever seen.
What you should not do is drive on it to save the wait. Leave the car where it is, on Brixton Road or on the drive and let the van come to it. Anywhere in Greater London. The wheel comes off in the Clapham Road area, not on a ramp in Vauxhall. Nothing is towed out of South Lambeth or Larkhall; the work finishes there.
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Around here a tyre rarely gets the luxury of a quiet inspection. You are either in a bay you cannot afford to give up or on a road where stopping is close to illegal anyway. So the inspection comes to the car instead. The bead gets broken at the kerb, a light goes inside the casing, and the verdict is given there, which takes minutes and settles what happens next.
Broken glass at a busy crossroads gets swept into the same few metres of road and stays there. What it leaves in a tyre will often hold pressure for a day or two, which is precisely what makes people ignore it.
The most common thing we hear at the car is that it did not look like much. Once the bead is off the rim and a light goes inside, the same damage is longer, deeper and in a worse position than anyone expected.
When the clock is tight, the honest thing is a fast verdict. It takes a few minutes to say whether this is a repair or a replacement, so you know early which sort of afternoon you are about to have.
Because the plug is going into damage nobody has inspected. If the cut has torn the liner or severed belt cords, that plug seals the entry and hides everything behind it. It is not a repair, it is a tyre that lets go later on.
Length, position and the state of the cords. Small, clean and well inside the tread area is repairable. Anything running across the belts, anything out towards the shoulder, or anything long enough to have cut wire is not, and you see the inside of the casing for yourself.
It can hold air for days and still be past saving by then. Every mile turns the object in the cut and lengthens the tear inside. If the tyre is repairable now, now is the cheapest that tyre is ever going to be.
You are told the price of whatever comes next before anybody starts work. If it turns out to be repairable, that is a much smaller figure than a replacement, and it is the entire reason we go to the trouble of getting the tyre off the rim.
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