Cars that sit still for months develop a fault that is not a fault. Rubber takes a set. The section of tread resting on the ground flattens slightly under the weight of the car, and if it stays there long enough in cold weather it stops springing back straight away. Drive off and the car thumps rhythmically, once per wheel revolution, and everybody assumes a tyre has failed. In most cases it works itself out within a few miles as the tyre warms and returns to shape.
The reason it matters is that a genuine problem produces very similar symptoms, and telling them apart saves an unnecessary tyre. A flat spot fades as you drive. A separated belt, a lump in the tread or a buckled wheel does not, and it usually gets worse with speed rather than better. If the thump has not gone after ten minutes of driving, it is not a flat spot and it is worth having somebody look properly.
Hospital and clinic appointments are the ones people apologise for ringing about, and they should not. Then it is the usual work done quickly: we come to the car in White City, get the wheel off, inspect the tyre from the inside and repair it to British Standard where the damage permits. Old tyres leave Hammersmith Park, Wood Lane and Greater London with us, every time. You watch it happen in Westfield, or at the kerb in Old Oak.
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There are a lot of cars around White City that get used a couple of times a month rather than daily, parked up between the estate and the car parks, and standing damage is far more common in that pattern than anybody expects. The first check is free and takes a minute: read all four pressures before deciding anything is wrong with the tyres themselves.
That is the tread returning to shape after standing. It is not damage and it does not need a tyre, only a bit of use.
Something structural. A separated belt or a distorted wheel behaves the opposite way to a flat spot, and it should be looked at rather than driven around.
Weeks in the same spot in cold weather is exactly the recipe. Pressures are usually well down too, which makes the flat spot deeper and slower to recover.
Probably not. Check the pressures first, then drive gently for a few miles. A flat spot from standing usually disappears as the tyre warms up.
If the vibration is still there after ten minutes, or it gets worse the faster you go. That is not a flat spot and it wants looking at.
A great deal. An underinflated tyre standing for weeks takes a much deeper set, so it is worth getting them up to the plate figure before you judge anything.
Yes. Wheel off, tyre off the rim, and a proper look at the inside, which is where a separation shows itself. Typical arrival across W12 is 30 to 60 minutes.
You are told at once and a replacement goes on from van stock in the correct size, balanced and torqued at the car.
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