An asymmetric tyre is two tread patterns sharing one casing. The outer half is built for cornering, with large solid blocks and as little groove as the designer can get away with, because a big continuous area of rubber is what resists the load thrown onto the outside shoulder in a turn. The inner half is built for water, with deep channels running round the circumference to move it out from under the contact patch. The two halves are not interchangeable, so the maker moulds OUTSIDE onto the sidewall that has to face away from the car and INSIDE onto the other one.
That makes it one of the very few fitting errors you can check yourself in about a minute. A tyre mounted the wrong way round on the rim looks entirely normal, drives normally in the dry, and gives most of its wet performance away for nothing. It happens when somebody is working quickly, and once the wheel is back on the car nothing about it draws attention. Walk round with the car standing still and read the outer sidewall of each of the four. If one of them says INSIDE, it is on backwards. When we fit a set at your kerb you are standing there while it happens, which is as good a check as any.
Just bought the car? The tyres are the first thing worth checking and the last thing anybody looks at. We can come and look while it sits on the drive in Hoxton, tell you what you actually have, and fit what it needs at a time you pick. The wheel comes off in the Rivington Street area, not on a ramp in Hoxton. Nothing is towed out of Boundary Estate or Hoxton; the work finishes there.
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Buying tyres properly is a planned job, and round here the planning is mostly about where the car will be standing. Bays off Redchurch Street and the streets by the Boundary Estate are hard won and worth keeping, so we come to the car and the space stays yours. It also means the sidewalls get read with you present, the wheels get balanced at the kerb, and the old tyres leave with us rather than standing against a wall behind the building for a fortnight.
A set fitted elsewhere had three tyres correct and one reversed. The car had been through an entire wet winter like that, and the owner had put the odd feeling from the front axle down to the road surface.
Four tyres and four sidewalls checked with the owner standing there, which took under a minute and settles the question permanently. It is a small thing, and it is exactly the sort of small thing that gets skipped when a queue is building.
The car was going to sit on Curtain Road all day regardless, so the new set went on where it stood. The driver came out once to hand over the keys and once to pay by card at the end of it.
It is an instruction to whoever fits the tyre. The tyre only works as designed with that face pointing away from the car, because the outer half of the tread carries the cornering load and the inner half handles water. Turned round, both halves are doing the wrong job.
Yes, and it takes a minute. Look at the sidewall facing you on each wheel and find the word OUTSIDE. If what you can read from the pavement says INSIDE, that tyre is mounted the wrong way round, and it wants turning on the rim rather than moving to another corner.
Enough to matter in the wet, where the channels that should be clearing water sit on the wrong side of the contact patch. It also wears unevenly, because the shoulder built for cornering is now on the inside taking a different load. In the dry you would probably never notice.
Across an axle, yes, without argument. Front to back there is a little more latitude, though a matching set behaves more predictably. If you are replacing two now and two later, we will tell you which pair belongs on which end of the car and why.
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