Heat is what kills tyres, and under-inflation is how heat gets made. A tyre at the correct pressure holds its shape and the sidewall barely deforms as it rolls. Drop the pressure by a third and the sidewall folds and unfolds on every single rotation, thousands of times a mile, and the energy in that flexing has nowhere to go but into the rubber. The shoulders get hot first, and once the rubber has been cooked the bond between the layers inside starts to fail.
That is why we care so much about how far a car has been driven on a soft tyre, more than about the nail itself. The nail is a hole and holes are fixable. What is not fixable is a casing that has broken up internally, and the giveaway is a fine grey dust inside the tyre when we get it off the rim. That dust is the tyre telling us it has already been destroyed.
The nursery closes at six and charges by the minute after that. We come to wherever the car is in SW18 with a live ETA, so you know whether to ring ahead. A driveway in Wandsworth Town, a work car park or the roadside, whichever applies. Old tyres leave Southfields, Earlsfield and SW18 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Earlsfield, or at the kerb in Southside.
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The permit streets around Wandsworth Common and Southfields are packed tight, so most people find a soft tyre in the morning rather than at the roadside. That is the best possible version of the problem. The car has not been driven on it, the casing is intact, and the job is a repair rather than a purchase, provided nobody decides to nurse it to work first.
The inner liner has broken down under heat and is coming away as dust. Whatever caused the leak is now irrelevant, because the tyre itself has been consumed from the inside and cannot be repaired.
A wear pattern that says the tyre has been running under-inflated for a long time. It is worth knowing, because it usually means a slow leak nobody ever chased or pressures that have not been checked in a year.
Understandable, because there is nowhere sensible to stop in the middle of it. Get clear of the traffic, park, and ring from there. Another two miles of stop-start on a flat costs more than the wait.
Any noticeable amount. Once you can see the tyre is down, the sidewall is already flexing more than it was built for, and the damage accumulates from that moment.
Very possibly not. Short distances at low speed are far kinder than a motorway run. We look at the inner liner and give you a straight answer rather than a guess.
Only partly. Blueing or scuffing on the outside of the sidewall is a bad sign. The definitive evidence is inside, which is one more reason the tyre comes off the rim.
Typical arrival across SW18 is 30 to 60 minutes. Tell us where you have managed to pull in and we will come to that spot rather than asking you to move.
Normally yes, from van stock, balanced and torqued before we leave. You will be told which way it is going before anything is charged for.
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