The plate in the driver's door shut usually gives two sets of pressures, and almost nobody uses the second one. There is a normal figure for a couple of people and light luggage, and a laden figure for a full car, which is often several psi higher at the rear. Ignore it with four adults and a boot full and the rear tyres run soft under the heaviest load they will ever carry, which is exactly the condition that overheats a casing and rounds off the shoulders.
It matters when a tyre goes on in a hurry because pressures are the last step and the easiest to do by habit. So when a replacement is fitted beside the car, the pressures come off the plate rather than out of memory, and if you say the car is about to be loaded up you get the laden figure instead. Everything else is the ordinary sequence: correct size out of the van, fitted on the rim, balanced on site, torqued to the manufacturer's figure, and the old casing taken away.
A split found while checking the car before a long drive is the good version of this problem. So the tyre comes to the car: correct size matched to the wheel, fitted and balanced where it stands in West Putney, pressures set for the load you are about to put in it. The wheel comes off in Roehampton, not on a ramp in Barnes. Pressures set before we leave Roehampton, and the same on the South Circular.
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Where the A3 and the South Circular pinch together, nursing a destroyed tyre anywhere is a poor idea, and the parking you would surrender to do it is worse. The correct size comes to the car, goes on the rim beside it, and is balanced, torqued and set to the right pressure for how the car is actually being used.
A car near Putney Vale was setting off fully loaded on the normal pressures. Two tyres were several psi under what the plate asks for in that condition.
A failure on the Upper Richmond Road with the car pulled clear. Correct size fitted, balanced, and the pressures set for how the car was actually loaded.
A tyre destroyed against a kerb near Putney High Street. The car had not moved and never needed to, and the replacement went on where it stood.
On the same plate in the driver's door shut as the normal ones, usually in a second column or row. Most cars have both and most drivers only ever use one.
Several psi at the rear on many cars. Running a fully loaded car on the light figure is the quickest way to overheat a tyre on a long run.
Always, from the plate. Say if the car is about to be loaded and the laden figure goes in instead.
Common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments travel on the van. Anything unusual is sourced and you get a realistic timescale rather than a hopeful one.
Yes. It never has to move, which around SW15 is worth as much as the speed.
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