The pressure figure on your tyre sidewall is not the pressure your car wants. That number is the maximum the tyre may be inflated to, and inflating to it will give you a hard ride, a narrow contact patch and tyres that wear out down the middle. The figure that matters is on a plate in the driver's door shut, or sometimes inside the fuel flap, and it is specific to your car and often different front to rear.
So when we fit a tyre it goes to the vehicle figure, not the tyre's ceiling, and if the car is loaded up we will use the laden number where one is given. Under-inflation is the more common fault and it is expensive: it flexes the sidewalls, runs the tyre hot, wears the shoulders and makes punctures far more likely. The rest of the job is the ordinary work of a good fit, correct size and rating matched, balanced at the kerb, sensor handled, old casing taken away, two-year warranty on the new tyre.
The other three tyres get checked on every emergency replacement, and it is not padding. The immediate job stays simple: correct size brought to the car in Hyde Farm, fitted and balanced where it stands, valve checked, pressures set. Whether it is Nightingale Triangle in rush hour or the South Circular at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Bedford Hill included, arrival across SW12 runs 30 to 60 minutes. SW12 takes in Heaver Estate and Hyde Farm, and we work the lot.
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Balham is short-hop driving, with the High Road stop-start most of the day and the hills either side of it loading the tyres hard on every trip. Soft tyres punish themselves quickly under exactly that pattern, which is part of why punctures here feel so frequent. Fitting a new tyre and leaving the other three at whatever pressure they happened to be is half a job, so we set the lot from the door plate.
A car near Balham Hill had every tyre pumped to the sidewall maximum and worn down the middle. Pressures were reset to the door plate figure.
A car on the Heaver Estate had been running well under pressure for months. The new tyre went on and all four were corrected.
A tyre wrecked near the South Circular was replaced at a nearby side street, balanced and set to the correct figures.
On a plate in the driver's door shut, or occasionally inside the fuel flap. The number on the tyre itself is the maximum it can take, not what your car wants.
Frequently, yes, and many cars also give a higher laden figure for a full load. We use the correct one rather than a single number for all four.
It flexes the sidewalls, runs the tyre hot, wears both shoulders and makes a puncture or a blowout much more likely. It also costs you fuel.
Yes, as part of the visit. It takes a minute and it is the cheapest thing anyone can do for the life of a set of tyres.
New tyres carry a two-year warranty, are balanced before they go back on and are fitted to DVSA-compliant standards wherever the car is parked.
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