Gash in my front offside tyre!

raymond

Modern tyres have a layer designed to protect alloy rims and if the cut is in that area and not deep then its fine but only a professional tyre fitter can make that assesment, not an amateur from a pic on a website

Wig

Even if Dunlop have guarantee on your tyre for the blister they will probably not pay because of the cut nearby, they may have been caused by the same incident.

Blister/cut no matter, I'd keep driving on it but I'd put it on the passenger side rear.

tomstickland

If you have low profile tyres then it can be very hard to feel a flat tyre. When I had high profile balloon tyres then I noticed straight away that the car felt odd, but with stiff walled performance tyres on low profile, the difference between 32psi and flat is not immediately obvious.

Basil_Fawlty

Wig wrote:

Not if it's on the rear, you might hear a noise, and you will feel the car is handling a bit funny on the rear have you ever driven on a flat tyre? Well that's what it's like. Or it can be described as driving over squashy fruit - but only on one wheel. You pull over and change the wheel. Nothing to it, as long as you are capable of changing a wheel. So you also need to put it on the passenger side at the rear, so it will be easier to change in safety.

Actually being on a dual carriageway motorway will be safer in a blowout on rear, because you are travelling in a straight line, and you only have to gently drive over to the hard shoulder.

Some really bad drivers who shouldn't be on the roads IMO don't realise they are driving on a flat/low pressure tyre!!! I trust you are not one of these drivers.

Nope I'm not one of those drivers - I notice immediately when something is wrong - like this mini-cut on the tyre.

I remember seeing Police Camera Action or one of it's sister programmes where a traffic cops own back tyre blewout and his car did a couple of spins before stopping sideways in the third lane of the motorway. If a traffic officer couldn't keep his car in a straight line and guide it to the hard shoulder without it spinning I doubt I will either.

How on earth do I get the tyre examined by Dunlop because either I have to go someplace special or Kwik-Fit need to send my tyre off in which case I will need a replacement - do I pay for it or what? I'm really not happy with the bulging on the sidewall too and though I'm "keeping an eye on it" I don't want to just leave it. What is £40 to replace a tyre in relation to my no claims? :rotfl: I don't see that the two are related - if it had anything to do with the cut surely the bulge would appear on the area around the cut. It isn't even on the left edge of that picture in my original post!! That's how far it is... :rolleyes:

Wig

How fast was he going prolly over 100. I've had a blowout on rear, nothing happened, I've seen another car have one too, nothing happened, in both cases cars just slowed and moved to the side. The blister may be under guarantee, ask the garage you bought it from. you'll need your reciept.

Apart from that avenue you're worrying about nothing, just make sure it's swapped with the spare for the MOT.

A_Doonhamer

Just wanted to post a couple of points

-the bulge on the side of the tyre is where the wire casing inside the tyre has been weakened either due to impact or faulty manufacturing

-do not put this tyre on the rear of the car and think you can forget about it! a blow out on a rear tyre is more likely to result in a serious accident than if it happened on the front.

-your tyres are your only contact with that piece of tarmac your travelling across at 60mph(or more, naughty peeps!) do you really want to skimp on such an important safety element, how much more expensive could it be to you or somebody else should the tyre fail at the wrong time and cause an accident?

owey

If you bought the trye from Kwik-fit they should have a return policy or they might exchange it there and then, and if you do take it back, don't forget to tell them you want it back, after it has been examined.
I had a problem with a Michelin tyre bought from Costco " string coming through between the thread, even with about 4mm of tread left. I had to buy a new tyre from them at £76.00 :eek: and they will send it off to Michelin. If they say its faulty, I will get a cheque for the £76.00, if not bye bye £76.00.
The only thing I don't like about it, is all these tyre companies examine there own tyres, not that they would lie to you .

roses

I've done this twice now to my car by being careless and hitting curbs!

When I took my car for the service I was told to get it changed asap.

I got a new tyre from https://www.etyres.co.uk which was £45 inc fitting for a Pirelli with a guy coming to my house on a Saturday morning to do it.

Basil_Fawlty

I've just remembered - we had to take the car in to Kwik Fit because they didn't balance the front tyres properly when we had the new ones fitted. I remember he removed the two front tyres and put them on a spinning machine but this is the only instance I can think of where the damage could have occurred. Is there a need for hammering anything during balancing or maybe to get the little weights fixed on the rim? Maybe when this was done the tyre was whacked. Because in all the time that car has been on the road we've never had anything like this and I'm a careful driver (soon to be an IAM driver if I pass m'test :cool: ).

This is all I can think the damage could possibly be due to.

BobToo

It would be practically impossible to damage the tyre casing when the wheel is off the car. Even a sledgehammer would just bounce off an inflated tyre. You really need the weight of the car behind it to do any real damage. I think it must have been kerbed.

Personally I would have had no qualms about driving on the tyre with the cut but I wouldn't drive on a tyre with a bulge.