New tyre?

[CerberusRogue]

I noticed the below lump on the outer wall of my front nearside tyre, anyone know if this requires changing and if so how urgently? The tyre has only done 3,500 miles so I'm pretty annoyed as I expect I should change both front tyres and it'll be almost £500 for the pair.

I've tried to give some perspective with the key. The lump is not big really, hence my adding the arrows to the photo to point it out.

Alloy has never been kerbed (it's filthy dirty though!) and the only thing I think could have caused this is me bouncing out of an enormous pothole at 35 mph. And then doing it again a week later in the same one :-(

[lostkiwi]

That definitely looks like it needs changing sooner rather than later. The underlying cords will have been damaged and the bulge will eventually push out and cause a blowout.

[robinessex]

If it was done by a pot hole local to yourself, buy 2 new tyres. Then pay your council tax in full, but deduct the cost of your new tyres. The tell the council to go fk itself !!!!!!

[kambites]

Personally I'd change that, the structure of the tyre is clearly damaged.

On the other hand, 99% of people wouldn't even have noticed it and we don't get loads of tyre failures every day though people driving on damaged tyres...

[E30M3SE]

Yep, that's fk. Check the inner face of the alloy to ensure it is has not got a flat spot.

[CerberusRogue]

thought as much :-(

thanks for all the replies. I can't imagine Surrey council will even entertain the idea of chipping in to pay for this one.

[Deejbb]

When I recently needed a new tyre, my local garage in Guildford told me if you take a pic of the pothole and send it off to the council with an invoice for the new tyre, they will reimburse you.. Never bothered myself but apparently they will cover the cost.

[AC43]

I'd change that pronto. Just did the same myself the other day for the same reason.

Two years ago the OH was driving down the outside lane of the M40 with both kids in the car when one of the rears blew out. To make it worse there was no hard shoulder. She managed to wrestle it across two lanes and off down a slip road for half a mile or so until she could get it off onto the verge.

Fricking pot holes......

[lostkiwi]

Deejbb said:

When I recently needed a new tyre, my local garage in Guildford told me if you take a pic of the pothole and send it off to the council with an invoice for the new tyre, they will reimburse you.. Never bothered myself but apparently they will cover the cost.

There's caveats to that.
It depends on your council for a start. Secondly the pothole has to be a over a minimum size and depth and finally the pothole may need to have been reported to the council first.
This last is what gives the liability as if they knew about it and did nothing then its negligence. If they didn't know about it then they aren't negligent so therefore aren't culpable is how I think it goes.

[Deejbb]

When I recently needed a new tyre, my local garage in Guildford told me if you take a pic of the pothole and send it off to the council with an invoice for the new tyre, they will reimburse you.. Never bothered myself but apparently they will cover the cost.

[Riley Blue]

Deejbb said:

When I recently needed a new tyre, my local garage in Guildford told me if you take a pic of the pothole and send it off to the council with an invoice for the new tyre, they will reimburse you.. Never bothered myself but apparently they will cover the cost.

So you take a photo of any old pothole and submit it with an invoice - dream on...

[robinessex]

For a council to be legally responsible for damage caused by a pot hole, it had to be on their radar so to speak. Now, I’m not sure if you have REPORTED a pot hole for this to be sufficient, or they have to have visually GAWPED at it. However once they do know about it, then a time frame kicks in re repairing it.