When a wheel is off the car anyway, the smart thing is to look at the rim before the new tyre goes anywhere near it. Pothole damage rarely stops at the rubber. The edge of a hole hits the wheel lip hard enough to flatten a section of it, and a flat spot on the lip means the bead cannot seal properly. Fit a brand new tyre to that and you have bought a tyre that will be soft again in a fortnight, for a reason nobody will connect to the fitting.
So the sequence is: wheel off, rim run round by hand and eye for flats, cracks and heavy kerb damage, then the tyre goes on. If the rim is buckled you get told before the money is spent, which is more useful than finding out afterwards. Then it is balanced on the van's machine, torqued to the manufacturer's figure and the pressures set off the door plate, and the ruined casing goes away with the fitter.
It might be a tyre that let go on the way home and is now sat on a driveway in Bellenden, or one you have finally looked at properly and found worn past the limit with an early start tomorrow. Tight in Queens Road, easy in Nunhead: neither stops the job. Level in Nunhead, sloping in Bellenden: we set the car straight first.
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The state of the roads around SE15 means most urgent replacements here started with an impact rather than a nail, and an impact is never fussy about which part it damages. Checking the rim while the wheel is off costs nothing and stops good money going onto a wheel that cannot hold air. Everything happens beside the car, wherever it stopped.
A tyre destroyed by a pothole on the Old Kent Road came off to reveal a flattened rim edge. Fitting a new tyre to that would have wasted it, so the owner was told first.
A wheel on a car near Nunhead had a hairline crack running from the lip inwards. It had been leaking slowly for weeks and had been blamed on the tyre throughout.
A sidewall cut on Rye Lane with a perfectly sound wheel underneath. New tyre on, balanced at the kerb, and the car had not moved an inch.
Because whatever destroyed the tyre usually hit the wheel on the way through. A damaged rim will not seal, and the new tyre pays for it.
Sometimes, by a specialist, and sometimes not at all. What happens here is telling you honestly what has been found so you can decide before spending on rubber.
Common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes travel on the van, so most jobs finish on the first visit. Anything unusual gets sourced quickly and you hear a realistic timescale.
Cosmetic rash is not. A flat spot, a crack or a bent lip is, because that is where the tyre has to seal against air pressure.
Agreed before the wheel comes off, then card or contactless once it is back on and torqued down.
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