Plenty of modern tyres only work properly one way round. Directional tyres have an arrow on the sidewall and a tread pattern designed to throw water outwards as the wheel turns forwards, and fitted backwards they lose a serious amount of wet grip. Asymmetric tyres are marked with an outside and an inside face instead, and getting those the wrong way round upsets both grip and wear.
It sounds obvious and it is got wrong surprisingly often, particularly when a tyre is swapped in a hurry. So the marking is checked before the tyre goes on the rim and again before the wheel goes back on the car. The rest is the usual careful work: the correct size and rating matched from your old sidewall, the new tyre balanced at the kerb, the pressures set from the door plate, the sensor handled and the old casing taken away. All major brands across budget to premium, and a two-year warranty on whatever you choose.
Failing an MOT on a tyre is an expensive way to find out, and it usually happens on the day you needed the car. We bring the correct size to wherever the car is, in South Bermondsey or at the test centre car park and fit it there, balanced and pressure-set. A tight terrace in Rotherhithe or a narrow bay on Grange Road is usually workable. Steep camber in Surrey Quays? We move a few metres, Grange or anywhere else. The SE1 postcode and a street in Tower Bridge Road: that is enough.
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The roads through Bermondsey stay wet and greasy for a good part of the year, with the river alongside and the surface under the railway viaducts rarely drying out properly. That is precisely the condition where a directional tyre fitted backwards costs you something real. Checking the markings twice takes no time at all, and it is the sort of detail that separates a proper fit from a fast one, wherever the car is parked.
A directional tyre fitted near Surrey Quays was checked for the rotation arrow before mounting and again before the wheel went back.
An asymmetric tyre on a car off Grange Road was mounted with the outside face correctly out, and the difference was explained to the owner.
A car in Rotherhithe had a directional tyre fitted backwards by somebody else. It was remounted the right way round.
There is an arrow on the sidewall marked with the direction of rotation. Asymmetric tyres instead say outside and inside on the respective faces.
Yes. A directional tyre fitted backwards loses a great deal of wet grip because the pattern can no longer clear water the way it was designed to.
Yes, it comes off the rim and goes back on the right way round. It is worth doing rather than living with, especially through winter.
Before mounting and again before the wheel goes back on the car. It takes seconds and it is one of the easier things to get wrong in a hurry.
Balancing, the pressure check from the vehicle plate, torquing the wheel, taking the old casing away, and a two-year warranty on the new tyre.
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