Not every tyre can go on either way round. A directional tread has a pattern shaped to throw water out in one direction and an arrow on the sidewall saying which. Fit it backwards and it looks entirely normal from the pavement while losing a serious amount of its wet grip, because the grooves are now trying to funnel water inwards instead of clearing it. Asymmetric tyres are different again: they have an inner and an outer face and only work properly one way up.
None of that is difficult, but it is exactly the sort of thing that gets missed when a tyre is thrown on by somebody who wants you off the forecourt. Fitting a replacement beside the car means the direction and the face get checked before the tyre goes on the rim, the wheel is balanced, and it is torqued to the figure the car was built around. It takes no longer to do it right. It is simply what the job is.
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 Jericho or at the test centre car park and fit it there, balanced and pressure-set. Which street in Headington, which way the car sits in Jericho, and we are set. Boxed in on a Summertown terrace or wide open in Botley, say which on the phone.
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An urgent tyre does not have to be a badly fitted tyre. The direction gets checked, the wheel is balanced on the van's machine, the nuts go back on a torque wrench and the pressures come from the plate in the door. That happens on hard standing in Cowley or on the verge off the A34, whichever is where the car actually stopped.
A tyre let go on the A34 and the car came to rest on the verge. The replacement went on the correct way round, was balanced on site, and the driver carried on rather than waiting on recovery.
A car in Botley had a tyre with its outer face pointing in. It was legal and it was not doing what it had been designed to do. It got turned and the new one went on properly.
Something on the A4142 opened a sidewall beyond saving. Correct size, correct rotation, torqued to the manufacturer's figure at the roadside.
There is an arrow on the sidewall, usually next to the word rotation. If there is no arrow but one face says outside, it is asymmetric instead.
In the dry, barely. In standing water on the ring road it matters a great deal, because the pattern is what gets the water out from under the tyre.
Usually. Give the make and pattern off the sidewall and the same will be brought where possible, or you get an honest account of the nearest sensible alternative.
They are legal and they are safe within their rating, and they generally give up some wet braking and some mileage. The choice is yours once you know what the difference is.
Yes. Get the car somewhere safe and well away from the carriageway first, then ring, and typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes.
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