I drove over something sharp and punctured car tyre. It has an inch long cut in the rubber right inthe middle of the tread and you can see some cord at the bottom of the cut although the cord does not actually seem to be damaged.
Q: Am I right in assuming that this cannot be repaired and I have to replace the whole tyre.
The tyre was new :-(
thanks
Robert
cut in the rubber right inthe middle of the tread and you can see some cord= at the bottom of the cut although the cord does not actually seem to be da= maged. Q: Am I right in assuming that this cannot be repaired and I have to= replace the whole tyre. The tyre was new :-( thanks Robert
To answer my own question. BS AU159 governs what can be repaired and her= e are the rules:
in the rubber right inthe middle of the tread and you can see some cord at the bottom of the cut although the cord does not actually seem to be damaged.
the whole tyre.
yes.
f*ck!
Space to pass except for the wheels sticking out at the side of the horse box. I had to drop off the edge of the road to avoid being hit by the wheels and buggered the N/S front tyre. The van and horse box of course just kept going.
We go off on holiday in the car tomorrow so frantic telephone calls around every tyre supplier I can find of and only one can supply in time.
New tyre £339 and the damaged one had only cover 7000 miles *@@$$**.
Mike
Glad I drive a plebmobile with cheap tyres. ;-)
Tim
Won't they tube them any more? I had a couple of tubes put on one car, but that was probably around 12 years ago now (maybe they'd never tube them for a split in the tyre, though; in my case it was due to corroded alloys and so they'd slowly leak around the rims otherwise)
in the rubber right inthe middle of the tread and you can see some cord at the bottom of the cut although the cord does not actually seem to be damaged.
the whole tyre.
I've only ever wrecked a brand new tyre, at just under 50 miles:-(
A cyclist shot off the pavement into the road, and I had to swerve and clipped an island with particularly large kerbstones, which took a chunk out of the tyre wall right through to the cords.
Her husband (I presume - they were a late middle-aged couple) who was following behind did at least mouth "sorry" to me, so I smiled back. I pulled over a bit further on to have a look, and only then saw the damage, and swapped on the spare. They'd gone by then of course, not that there's anything much one could do even if they were still there.
LOL, that would buy about 1.5 of my cars :D I still get from A to B though ;)
According to the publication, that is not an allowable repair method.
TBH you did not have to swerve;-)
kept going.
wait till its 300 for the tyre and 700 for a new wheel that the councils failure to fill the pothole in costs you
MOT failure as I discovered if the cords are showing.
kept going.
Yep. It cost me £140 for two new tyres for mine a fortnight ago.
SteveW
IIRC many tubeless tyres and some wheels are too rough on the inside for tubes and anyway tubes are prone to blowouts.
Friends of mine paid a visit to the central reservation crash barrier of the M62, at speed and backwards, when a tubeless tyre that had been tubed a week earlier blew out.
Rear wing was bent badly, with no place for the rear light cluster, so we visited a scrapyard, got the corner of another car cut off and welded and brazed it over the bent section. A load of cut-strand mat and resin over the join and they drove it for a couple more years - with one corner a different colour and the join roughly covered with rough red fibreglass. They told me that it made people keep their distance as the owners "obviously didn't care."
SteveW
if it's dammaged that bad then it may well be scrap,
BUT, i've found most tyre places can only plug punctures, and then only if within a certian distance from the sides etc,
But theres a local one man band tyre place near me (robs tyres of langley mill i think it is) and he can do major repairs to tyres,
i got a puncture on the edge of the tread on a motorhome tyre a day before we were off round wales for 2 weeks, tyre was a year old and done prolly
2000 miles if that,But he was able to fix it, used an untrasonic welding, heating and pressure system to bond new rubber to the inside of the tyre, it takes a couple of hours to do the repair plus some time after before it can be used, so i had to come back for the tyre just as i set off the next day, but it was a 35 quid repair, opposed to a 150 quid new tyre,
i never knew repairs like that were available, but then again, i've been brought up by my parents on shit fit type places, 'leaky valve core sir?? new tyre i'm afraid' type thing,
Sounds a very expensive tyre unless you are driving a jumbo jet.
Brian
Gladly that was a typo, the quote was originally £239, not £339 I bartered them down to a straight £200 cash. I was a bit panicky when the delivery van was an hour late arriving, but its fixed now, which is great as we set of for a week in Alcaig at noon, so no uk.diy banter for me for a week!
Mike
Still about 1.5 tyres for mine and they are big tyres 255/55R18. Are these some form of low profile "thick rubber band" type tyre?
Driving a Landrover has that effect too.
That sort of thing's common around here. I regularly see one car in town with the rear-right completely stoved in, but the owners have bodged on the light cluster from a trailer using sheet metal screws; it's been around for at least a couple of years like that, so the police are apparently happy with it.
cheers
Jules
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