There are two ways to own tyres. You can replace them one corner at a time as each one gives up, which is what most cars end up doing, or you can decide to run a matched set and plan around it. The difference is not really about money, because across a few years the two come out closer than people assume. It is about what the car does when the road is wet and you need all four of them to behave the same way.
Four tyres bought at four different moments are four different products. Different tread patterns, different compounds, different amounts of wear and different ages, which means they run out of grip at different points and in different ways. That is entirely manageable while nothing is happening. It matters when you brake hard on a wet surface and one end of the car has appreciably more grip than the other. A matched set takes away a variable you otherwise have no way of predicting. If four at once is not realistic, the compromise that actually works is buying in pairs and keeping track of which pair is older, rather than picking off one corner whenever it fails.
Give us the size and we will tell you what we can bring, which is the honest way round. From that we can say what is available in premium, mid-range and budget, what each costs, and when we could be with you in SE1. Level in Rotherhithe, sloping in Surrey Quays: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Surrey Quays or Grange is worth flagging. The SE1 postcode and a street in Tower Bridge Road: that is enough.
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Plenty of cars around Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays live on driveways and in units rather than on the street, which makes a planned set genuinely easy: we come to the car on a morning that suits and the whole thing is done without anybody driving anywhere. For cars kept on the permit streets nearer the Grange it is the same job at the kerb. Either way, planning it means you choose the tyre, instead of the tyre being chosen for you by whatever went wrong on a Tuesday night.
A car near Rotherhithe had four tyres from four separate emergencies, every one a different make and a different age. Nothing was unsafe about any of them individually. Together they gave the driver a car that behaved differently at each end in the rain.
Four tyres changed on a driveway while the owner worked at the kitchen table. Planned work is where you get an actual choice of tyre rather than taking whatever happens to suit the emergency.
A driver who did not want four at once took a matched pair and booked the second pair for a few months later. It was written down at the time, so the next set matches rather than guesses.
Ideally yes, though hardly anybody manages it permanently. The realistic target is a pair of identical tyres at each end of the car and an awareness of which pair is older. Four unrelated tyres is the situation worth avoiding, because you cannot predict how the car behaves at the limit.
Different tyres reach their limit at different points, particularly in the wet. Braking distances vary side to side and end to end, and the car can feel settled right up to the moment it is not. It is not dangerous in ordinary driving. It removes your margin when something does go wrong.
Usually not, if the others are in similar condition and it is a like for like replacement. It becomes a problem when a brand new tyre joins three that are most of the way through their lives, because that leaves one corner with far more grip available than the rest of the car.
That is a large part of what we do. A set takes longer than a single tyre, but the car never moves, the old tyres leave with us and you settle by card or contactless once the wheels are back on. A driveway, a workplace bay or a unit all work equally well.
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