Four-wheel-drive vehicles bring an extra rule to an emergency tyre change, and it catches people out because it has no visible symptom until something expensive happens. On a permanent four-wheel-drive system, the front and rear axles are connected through a centre differential or a viscous coupling, and that mechanism is designed for the small differences in wheel speed that come from cornering. It is not designed for a permanent difference caused by one tyre being a different rolling circumference from the others.
A new tyre is taller than a half-worn one. Fit one new tyre to a four-wheel-drive car with three part-worn ones and that corner turns at a slightly different rate for the whole life of the tyre, and the transmission absorbs the difference continuously. Manufacturers publish tolerances for this and they are tighter than most people expect. We check what is on the car before fitting anything, and we will tell you if the honest answer is more than one tyre.
An urgent replacement is a simple job that is only difficult because of where you are standing. A car park, a residential street in Roundwood, a lay-by: none of those has a tyre bay in it. The wheel comes off in the Walm Lane area, not on a ramp in Cricklewood. Nothing is towed out of Dollis Hill or Roundwood; the work finishes there.
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There are plenty of larger vehicles on the streets around Willesden Green and Dollis Hill, and their owners are often told at the roadside that one tyre will do. Sometimes it will. On a permanent four-wheel-drive car it may not, and that is a conversation worth having before the wheel comes off rather than after the transmission has spent a year absorbing the difference.
The new tyre is taller, so it turns more slowly, and on a permanent four-wheel-drive system the transmission takes that difference all day. It is the situation the tolerances exist to prevent.
Sometimes the correct answer is two, or occasionally four, and it is better said out loud than discovered later. We measure the others rather than guessing.
Far less critical. It still matters for braking balance across an axle, and it does not carry the same mechanical consequence.
On many permanent four-wheel-drive systems, yes, once the others are worn beyond the manufacturer's tolerance. We measure and tell you rather than assume.
The distance a tyre covers in one revolution. A new tyre is taller than a worn one, so it covers more ground per turn, and that difference is what the transmission has to absorb.
It varies by manufacturer and is usually expressed as a small difference in tread depth or diameter. It is tighter than most people expect.
Yes, provided the sizes are aboard, which for common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments they usually are. Read us the sidewall code when you ring.
A permit bay, a driveway up towards Dollis Hill, a workplace car park or the kerb. Nothing needs moving before we arrive.
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