Some cars need a tyre built to carry more than its size would suggest. A heavier SUV or a well loaded estate is often specified with a reinforced casing, marked XL or Reinf on the sidewall and carrying a higher load index than the standard version of the same size. Fit the ordinary one and it will look identical on the car, hold air, pass a glance, and be working at the very top of its rating every time the car is full.
So the size on its own is not the specification. When a replacement comes out, the load index and the speed rating are matched to what the car was built around, and if you have been quoted something lower elsewhere the difference gets explained rather than quietly fitted. The tyre goes on beside the car wherever it stopped, whether that is a driveway up towards Winchmore Hill or the hard standing off Aldermans Hill, and it is balanced and torqued before you move.
The tyre let go on the way home and the car is now sat where it stopped. That might be the drive in New Southgate, or it might be a lay-by that seemed like the best of a bad set of options. Valve in Winchmore Hill, balance in Palmers Green, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Bowes Park, not on a ramp in Tottenham. A N13 address in Winchmore Hill and one in Palmers Green are the same round.
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A tyre that fits is not automatically the right tyre, and the difference only announces itself on the day the car is full. The load index and speed rating get matched to the plate rather than to the price list, then the tyre is fitted and balanced beside the car wherever it stopped in N13, with the old casing taken away.
An SUV near Broomfield Park had been given a non reinforced tyre by somebody else. Right size, wrong rating, and the replacement corrected it.
A tyre let go on the A406 and the car pulled off. Correct reinforced fitment out of the van, balanced there, and the driver carried on.
A tyre destroyed on a kerb near the station, with a drive planned for the next day. Right rating, fitted on the spot, and the car went out fully loaded without a second thought.
Extra load. The casing is built stronger and carries a higher load index, and it usually runs slightly higher pressures. Cars specified with it should keep it.
Physically yes, and it is not what we would put on. On a heavy car it means the tyre sits at the edge of its rating whenever the car is loaded, which is precisely when you want margin.
The plate in the door shut gives the size and the pressures, and the sidewall of the tyre currently on it gives the rest. Read both out when you ring.
Yes. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s are what we do, in budget, mid-range and premium.
Quickly. This is our own area, and the usual estimate of 30 to 60 minutes is often comfortably beaten here.
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