A tyre of the right size is not automatically the right tyre for that corner of the car. Plenty of modern rubber is directional, with an arrow moulded into the sidewall showing which way it has to turn, and plenty more is asymmetric, marked outside on one face and inside on the other. Fit either one the wrong way round and it clears water badly, wears unevenly and behaves differently under braking to the tyre opposite it.
That matters most when the job is urgent, because urgency is when corners get cut. We read the whole sidewall before anything comes off the van: size, load index, speed rating and the fitment markings. The tyre goes on the correct way round, gets balanced beside the car and is torqued to the manufacturer's figure rather than run up with a gun. Then you drive away with the car behaving the way it did last week.
A tyre that has been run flat is scrap even if it looks intact. The correct size comes out to the car in SW8, gets fitted and balanced where it stands, with the valve and pressures dealt with in the same visit. We are out on Kennington Lane at 2am and in Nine Elms at 2pm. The Lansdowne Green phone and the the Wandsworth Road area phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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The gyratory is the worst place in SW8 to discover that a tyre is finished, because there is nowhere to pull in and nothing useful you can do about it in a live lane. Get the car onto a side street toward Nine Elms or the Wandsworth Road end and stop there. Fitting the right tyre the right way round takes the same time wherever the car happens to be standing.
A car we were called out to near the Albert Embankment already had one directional tyre fitted backwards by somebody else. We put the new one on correctly and told the owner what needed doing about the other one.
A tyre destroyed against a kerb in South Lambeth had cords showing through the shoulder. There was nothing left to discuss, so we matched the sidewall code and fitted a replacement at the parking space.
A driver in Lansdowne Green found a scrap tyre the evening before setting off. The correct size came out on the van, went on the right way round and was balanced there at the kerb.
There is an arrow moulded into the sidewall with the word rotation beside it. Asymmetric tyres instead say outside on one face and inside on the other. Read us what yours says and we will bring the right thing out.
On the same axle, as closely as possible. Different tread patterns either side of an axle change how the car pulls under braking. Front to back it matters much less, so a mismatch there is not the problem people believe it is.
Mostly wet braking distance and how long the tread lasts. We fit budget, mid range and premium, and we will tell you plainly what the difference buys on your particular car rather than steering you upward.
Yes, on site, before the wheel goes back on. An out of balance wheel announces itself somewhere between fifty and sixty, which is exactly the speed you will be doing once you are clear of the traffic.
It leaves with us for recycling. You get shown what was wrong with it first, so you can see for yourself why it could not be saved rather than taking our word for it.
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