Part Worn Tyres - nick in the sidewall

forgotmyname

I wouldnt trust that. If it were a get you home tyre with a max of 30mph then maybe. Otherwise i would call the breakdown..

snowathlete

Hopefully they are open tomorrow and I'll go and get it changed. Very annoying.

spacey2012

Thread is visible and sidewall scuttled.
If stopped, you will be asked to put the spare on and given a ticket to take to an MOT station to send back to the police that the tyre had been replaced, IF you could satisfy the officer you were unaware of the damage.
Say you are aware and driving it to anywhere and you will most likely get points and a fixed penalty.

Deflate it and put the spare on, any damage to a sidewall is serious, it is all that holds the rest of the tyre on the car.

Wig

I always pick up and look at my new tyres before they are fitted.

Joe_Horner

spacey2012 wrote: »

Thread is visible and sidewall scuttled.
If stopped, you will be asked to put the spare on and given a ticket to take to an MOT station to send back to the police that the tyre had been replaced, IF you could satisfy the officer you were unaware of the damage.
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Not so. Exposed cord is not automatically a problem. The MOT fail criteria is:

A tyre has a cut the length of which is in excess of 25 mm or 10% of section width, whichever is greater, deep enough to reach the ply or cords

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m4s04000105.htm

That's based on (in fact, in the inspection manual it's worded exactly the same as) the requirements of the Road Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 Regulation 27(c)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/27/made

So a cut that reaches the cords but is less than 25mm (about 1 inch) measured in any direction is not illegal to drive on. If your tyres are bigger than 250 section then you're allowed even bigger cuts than that (so 26.5mm on a 265, 30.5mm on a 305 and so on)

Regulation 27(e), which refers to "any of the ply or cord exposed", is referring to exposure by wear or abrasion. It has to be or else it makes the previous part about cuts immediately irrelevant.

It's also not inherently dangerous to have a cut like that because the rubber on the sidewall plays no structural role in the tyre - It's there to stop the air coming out (which it's still doing) and to protect the plys which are structural.


That doesn't mean that the OP's tyre is safe, only that they shouldn't panic until it's been properly examined - which you can't do from photos on a screen.

snowathlete

glad i looked. I'll have to get under it and check the other side too - on both tyres.

Chopper_Read

spacey2012 wrote: »

Thread is visible and sidewall scuttled.
If stopped, you will be asked to put the spare on and given a ticket to take to an MOT station to send back to the police that the tyre had been replaced, IF you could satisfy the officer you were unaware of the damage.
Say you are aware and driving it to anywhere and you will most likely get points and a fixed penalty.

Deflate it and put the spare on, any damage to a sidewall is serious, it is all that holds the rest of the tyre on the car.

If they made youput the spare on why the vdrs?

Stop scaremongering and stick to facts.

spacey2012

SECTION WIDTH OF TYRE !
NO damage to sidewall whatsoever, Cuts, serious abrasions, chunks missing, all a serious tyre defect.

Read !!!!!!, some of the people on here.
The poor bloke could be killed taking your advice.
Please do yourself a favour and do not drive with a big chunk missing out of the sidewall of your tyre.
Some folk on here, really.
Stupid is an understatement.

Chopper_Read

spacey2012 wrote: »

SECTION WIDTH OF TYRE !
NO damage to sidewall whatsoever, Cuts, serious abrasions, chunks missing, all a serious tyre defect.

Read !!!!!!, some of the people on here.
The poor bloke could be killed taking your advice.
Please do yourself a favour and do not drive with a big chunk missing out of the sidewall of your tyre.
Some folk on here, really.
Stupid is an understatement.

I think you'll find its something like break, bulge or tear.

If you stuck to facts instead of making stuff up, you maybe taken seriously.

spacey2012

Are you completely off you ******* head.
Go away idiot !.
You are going to get someone killed.

The bloke has a chunk of rubber missing from the sidewall of his tyre the size of a 10p coin and the thread is viable and you are telling him he is OK to drive round on it .
I have heard and met some in my time.

End of conversation.