Not every car wears four identical tyres by design. Staggered fitment means the rear tyres are wider than the fronts, sometimes on larger rear wheels too, and it is normal on a good many performance and premium cars. It matters on an urgent job because the obvious assumption, that a replacement matches whatever is on the other corner, is wrong on those vehicles. Fit a front size to the rear and the car is now mismatched across an axle, which is precisely the thing that must not happen.
It also means these cars usually cannot rotate tyres front to back, so the rears wear out considerably faster and get replaced in pairs more often. When you ring, read us the sizes off the tyre being replaced rather than off the one you can most easily see, because on a staggered car those two are different numbers and only one of them is the right answer.
Failing an MOT on a tyre is an expensive way to find out, and it usually happens on the day you needed the car. We bring the correct size to wherever the car is, in Whiteley Village or at the test centre car park and fit it there, balanced and pressure-set. Which street in Oatlands Village, which way the car sits in Brooklands, and we are set. Boxed in on a Whiteley Village terrace or wide open in Hamm Court, say which on the phone.
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Weybridge has more than its share of cars running wider rears and low profiles, and the roads around Brooklands and the M25 at Junction 11 are where those tyres get used properly. When one has to be replaced in a hurry, thirty seconds spent reading the exact sidewall code to us is what makes the difference between one visit and two.
A narrower tyre on one rear corner leaves the axle mismatched in width as well as pattern. It fits the rim, it holds air and it is the wrong tyre for that end of the car.
Normal on a staggered car, because they cannot be swapped round to even out the wear. It usually means replacing the pair rather than one.
Easy to do in a hurry, particularly at night. Read the sidewall of the tyre actually being replaced and we will bring the right one.
Compare the sidewall markings on a front and a rear tyre. If the width or the wheel diameter differ, it is staggered.
Not on a car designed for staggered fitment. The suspension and the electronics are set up around it, and changing that is not a roadside decision.
Common fitments travel on the van and we confirm before setting off. Read us the exact code from the tyre being replaced when you ring.
Where the remaining one is well worn, yes. If it has genuine life left we will tell you the measurement and let you decide.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, whether you are at home, near Brooklands or stopped on the A317, at any hour of the day or night.
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