The question that follows almost every repair is whether the other side has to be done as well, and the answer usually is no. It is worth knowing why, because it gets sold badly. Axle pairing is a rule about matching. The two tyres at either end of a car should share the same size, the same construction, the same load and speed ratings, and ideally the same make and pattern, so that both wheels grip and slow the car alike. A repair changes none of that. A patched tyre is the same tyre it was, with the same tread depth on it, and it is still a match for its partner.
What does break a pair is wear, and a repair is simply the moment you find out about it. With the wheel off we measure the opposite tyre as well, because if one side carries three or four millimetres more tread than the other, that end of the car brakes unevenly whether anything has been repaired or not. If the two are close, the repaired tyre goes back on and there is nothing else to buy. If they are not, you have a real decision to make, and it is far better made with two measurements in front of you than with a guess and a sales line.
Sometimes the tyre is fine and the valve has failed. That is what we do first, on the drive in Globe Town or wherever the car has stopped, before anybody starts talking about repairs or replacements. Same tools in Globe Town as in Cambridge Heath, same on every call. Valve in Shoreditch, balance in the Columbia Road area, pressures before we go. The E2 postcode and a street in the Columbia Road area: that is enough.
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Cars in E2 are mostly parked rather than driven, and a set of tyres here can be four or five years old with plenty of tread still on it. That is exactly the pattern that produces odd pairs: one tyre replaced on its own after a kerbing near Roman Road market, another after a screw picked up on Bethnal Green Road, and eventually four different tyres on one car with nobody quite sure how. Since the wheel comes off at the kerb anyway, we read all four and hand you the depths, so the next single replacement is at least a deliberate choice.
A tyre patched in a permit bay near Bethnal Green Road had a partner within half a millimetre of it. The repair went straight back onto the car and the owner was told plainly that there was nothing further to spend.
A repair on a car near Cambridge Heath turned up a different make and pattern on the opposite side, fitted somewhere else at some point. The repair itself was perfectly valid. The mismatch was the thing worth a conversation.
Two front tyres on a car parked off Roman Road came in at very different depths. Repairing the shallower of them would have been spending money on a tyre with one winter left in it.
No. Pairing is about the two tyres on an axle matching each other in size, construction, ratings and ideally pattern. A repair alters none of those and it removes no tread. A properly repaired tyre is still a match for the one on the other side.
When the depths have drifted apart. A few millimetres of difference across one axle means one wheel gripping and slowing more than the other, which shows up under hard braking and in the wet. That is a wear problem rather than a repair problem, but a repair is when it gets found.
Normally yes, and we put it back where it came from unless there is a reason not to. Shuffling tyres around a car without reading the depths first is how a mismatched axle gets created by accident. If anything is going to move, it gets measured before it does.
We do it as a matter of course, all four, and we give you the figures. It takes a couple of minutes, and it means the conversation about what to buy next happens once, with numbers on the table, rather than every time something goes soft.
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