There comes a point where repairing a tyre stops making sense, and it has nothing to do with the puncture. A repair done properly to BS AU 159 lasts for the rest of the tyre's life, which is exactly the problem when the rest of the tyre's life is a few months. Putting a permanent repair into a tyre with 2mm of tread left buys you very little, and you will be replacing it before the winter anyway. At that point the honest advice is to put the money towards the tyre rather than the repair.
The judgement is not just about depth either. If the tyre has done a lot of years, if it is showing crazing in the sidewall, or if its partner on the same axle is nearly finished, the case for a repair weakens further, because you will end up buying a pair shortly regardless. We gauge and look at the whole tyre before recommending anything, which happens on your driveway rather than in a queue. Sometimes the answer is a repair and you keep the tyre. Sometimes it is that the repair is good money after a tyre that is done.
What you cannot see is the part that decides it. So the wheel comes off and the tyre comes off the rim on the drive in Ampthill Park or wherever the car is, and the inspection happens before any promise does. The wheel comes off in Church Street, not on a ramp in Bedford. Nothing is towed out of Dunstable Street or Woburn Street; the work finishes there.
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Cars in Ampthill often do low annual mileage, which means tyres here get old as often as they get worn, and both matter when you are deciding whether a repair is worth it. Being honest about that saves people spending on a tyre they are about to replace. We look at the whole tyre on the drive rather than just the object in it.
Dead centre of the tread, small, clean and entirely repairable. With 2mm of tread left it is still not worth doing, and we would rather say so.
If you are buying a pair in three months anyway, spending on a repair now is a detour. It is worth knowing the whole picture before deciding.
The opposite case and by far the more common one. Repair it, rebalance the wheel and get years out of a tyre that would otherwise be scrapped.
No. A repair lasts as long as the tyre does, so putting one into a tyre with a few months left buys very little. We will tell you when that is the case.
There is no single figure, but a tyre well into its second half with a worn partner on the same axle is usually better replaced than repaired.
The opposite. Most punctures we attend are repaired, because that is nearly always the better outcome. We only say otherwise when the tyre is genuinely done.
Yes, along with looking at its age, its condition and its partner on the same axle. The recommendation comes from all of that rather than the hole alone.
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