The question that decides a repair is not how big the hole is, it is whether the object cut the cords or went between them. A nail or a screw pushed in point first usually parts the cords rather than severing them, which is why a clean puncture in the middle of the tread is repairable at all. Something with an edge, a blade of metal or a piece of glass, does the opposite. It slices, and once cords are cut the tyre has lost structure that no patch replaces.
You cannot tell which happened by looking at the outside. From above, a cut and a puncture can look almost identical. The difference shows on the inside of the tyre, where a cut leaves a slit with frayed cord ends visible along it and a puncture leaves a neat round hole. So the tyre comes off the wheel and the inside gets inspected before anybody promises anything. In a place where nobody wants to lose a permit space or drag a car through Camden High Street traffic, doing that inspection at the kerb rather than in a workshop is most of the point.
A repair costs a fraction of a new tyre, which is exactly why it is worth having someone look properly instead of guessing. We check that with the tyre off the rim, on the spot, in NW1, and you get an honest answer including the one you were hoping not to hear. Tight in Agar Grove, easy in Camden Lock: neither stops the job. Level in Chalk Farm, sloping in Camden High Street: we set the car straight first. The NW1 postcode and a street in Primrose Hill: that is enough.
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The streets around Camden Lock and the market see enough broken glass and general debris that cuts turn up here rather more often than in quieter parts of London, and cuts are the ones that end badly. The good news is that a straightforward screw through the middle of the tread is still the commonest thing we find. The only way to tell them apart is with the tyre off the wheel, and that happens without the car leaving its permit bay.
A tyre on a car off Chalk Farm Road had what looked like an ordinary puncture. Inside, the cords were cut along a short slit, which meant a replacement rather than a patch.
A screw picked up near Camden Lock had gone in point first and parted the cords cleanly. Patched from the inside and back on the wheel that afternoon.
A blade of glass in a tyre near Primrose Hill had sliced rather than punctured. There was no version of that which got repaired.
A puncture parts the cords as the object pushes between them. A cut severs them. The first leaves the tyre's structure intact around a hole. The second has removed some of it, and nothing bonded inside the tyre puts a cut cord back.
Not reliably. From above they can look almost identical. Inside the tyre they look nothing alike: a puncture is a neat round hole and a cut is a slit with frayed cord ends along it. That is why the tyre comes off the wheel.
Because a patch seals a hole and restores the airtight liner. It cannot restore a load carrying cord. If the cords are cut, the area is permanently weaker and will flex differently for the rest of the tyre's life.
Yes, and around here it usually has to be. The tyre comes off the rim at the kerb, the inside is inspected, and the answer is given there. The car stays in its space throughout.
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