The outside of a tyre tells you where an object went in. It tells you almost nothing about where it went. Nails and screws rarely travel straight through the crown at ninety degrees. They go in at whatever angle they were lying at, so a nail that entered the middle of the tread can be under the shoulder by the time it reaches the liner, which puts the damage outside the area anyone may repair.
So the judgement has to be made from the inside, with the tyre off the rim and a lamp on it. That is where you find the second hole nobody knew about, the scuffing on the liner that says the tyre has been run soft, and the broken cords a nail leaves on its way through. From outside, all three look like a simple puncture.
It is also how you get told the truth when the truth is that nothing is wrong. A fair number of the tyres we take off have been holding air perfectly well, and they go straight back on with nothing to pay for beyond the visit.
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 SW18, and you get an honest answer including the one you were hoping not to hear. Whether it is East Hill in rush hour or York Road at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Southfields included, arrival across SW18 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Most of this work happens with the car exactly where it was left, on a permit bay in Earlsfield or on a drive off Putney Bridge Road, because there is no reason to move it. The wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the wheel, and the verdict rests on something somebody actually looked at rather than a guess made from the kerb.
A screw picked up off Garratt Lane looked like a textbook repair from the kerb. With the tyre off, the point had travelled sideways and come through under the shoulder, well outside the repairable band. Nobody calls that from outside.
A tyre on a driveway in Southfields had a nail in the tread and a second puncture on the far side that had sealed itself with grit. Repairing one and missing the other puts the car back on the road still leaking.
A driver near Wandsworth Common had a warning light and a tyre that felt soft. Off the rim there was no penetration anywhere, no marking on the liner and no weep at the bead. The pressure had simply been low.
Because half the evidence sits on the inner liner and none of it is visible with the tyre on the rim. The entry point outside and the damage inside are often in different places, and the inside one decides whether a repair is allowed.
Not when the bead is broken properly and the rim lip is protected. It adds a few minutes, which is why some places skip it and push a plug in from the outside instead. That saves them time and tells you nothing.
The central band, within a size limit, with a sound casing and no sign the tyre has been run flat. Shoulder and sidewall damage rules it out entirely. Those are the terms of BS AU 159 and they do not bend.
You are told before anything is charged for, and you see what we saw. In most sizes we fit a replacement from the van there and then, balanced and torqued at the car, so it stays a single visit.
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