The size moulded into the tyre you are replacing is not proof of the size your car takes. It is proof of what somebody fitted last time. Before anything comes off the van we read all four sidewalls and compare them against the plate the manufacturer fixed in the driver's door shut. A corner that does not match is a regular find. It is rarely dramatic: usually a load index or speed rating dropped a notch by whoever was cheapest that week.
Sometimes it is the profile. A fifty five where the car wants a forty five changes how far the wheel travels in one rotation, so the speedometer reads wrong and the stability control is fed numbers that do not agree with each other. On a car driving all four wheels, a mismatch of that sort has the transmission quietly fighting itself. None of it announces itself to the driver. When we come out to a tyre that cannot be saved, we fit the size the car was designed around, balanced and torqued to the figure for that model. If what came off was wrong, you get told, with the evidence in front of you.
When a tyre is finished, the useful question is how quickly you can be legal again. We answer it by bringing the replacement to you in KT6 instead of asking you to drive to it, which matters when the tyre in question is split, shredded or down past the wear bars. We are out on Ewell Road at 2am and in Berrylands at 2pm. The Long Ditton phone and the Alexandra Drive phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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A wrong size does not care where you live, but the way it gets found does. Cars in this part of Greater London tend to be serviced wherever was convenient at the time, so four tyres can carry four histories. Because we come to your address and have all four wheels in front of us at once, the odd one out shows up in a way it never does when a car goes into a bay for one corner at a time.
Kerbed hard heading south toward Tolworth, with the sidewall split open and no argument to be had about repairing it. The correct size went on where the car had stopped and the driver carried on with the afternoon.
Three tyres bought from three places over four years. The nearside rear was a wider section than the other three, which finally explained a pull the owner had been living with and blaming on the tracking.
A look over the car the night before a holiday found one front tyre worn past legal on the inner edge, where nobody ever looks. Replaced on the driveway that evening instead of at a service station two hundred miles later.
In two places. The sidewall tells you what is on the car right now. A plate in the driver's door shut, or sometimes inside the fuel flap, tells you what the maker intended. When the two disagree, the plate is the one to believe.
On a straight dry road you would never know. Under braking in the wet, or on a car sending power to all four wheels, you would. Tyres of different sizes turn at different rates, and the electronics have no way of knowing that was deliberate.
Not at all. Budget, mid range and premium all ride on the van and there is an honest case for each depending on your mileage. What is not up for discussion is the size, the load index and the speed rating printed on the sidewall.
It leaves with us. The dead one does not end up in your boot and the carcass does not get left propped against your fence. That is part of the job rather than a line added on at the end of it.
Nearly always, because one visit does away with three separate bills: the truck, the labour at the far end and the taxi back. The car also never gets driven on the flat, which is what turns a tyre bill into a wheel bill.
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