Alloy bent by rock on slip road, tyre looks ok?
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So last week I had my first ever roadside problem in 7 years of motoring which actually forced me to stop.
I hit a large rock (trying to avoid several of them) on the A10 slip-road at Ware. It immediately became apparent that something was very wrong so I pulled over and changed to the spare straight away. My poor old boss who I car share with was standing 50 yards up the road in a hi-vis waving his arms to warn oncoming traffic in the pouring rain. I was quite chuffed to have the whole thing done in under 10 minutes and back in the car. Police attended and I wasn't the only unfortunate motorist that morning.
Anyway, the point of this thread is regarding the tyre on said wheel.
I've sourced another alloy wheel and I'm keen to get a matching tyre as the one which was on the now bent alloy was relatively new. It was a Michelin Pilot Exalto 2 in 195/50 R15. Not a massively expensive tyre, about £70 fitted.
Looking at the old (deflated) tyre there's seemingly nothing wrong with it, no bubbling/blistering and it didn't roll far before all the air was gone from it.
Could this tyre be alright to see another day?
If it beads ok and holds air, would you trust it? With no visible damage is there anything which can be wrong with it? It looks as though the rim of the alloy has taken the impact from the rock and has a nice bend in it.
Just curious as I'm off to the garage in the morning to get it looked at. Car has already had the once-over to check that nothing else is damaged.
Any advice welcome
I hit a large rock (trying to avoid several of them) on the A10 slip-road at Ware. It immediately became apparent that something was very wrong so I pulled over and changed to the spare straight away. My poor old boss who I car share with was standing 50 yards up the road in a hi-vis waving his arms to warn oncoming traffic in the pouring rain. I was quite chuffed to have the whole thing done in under 10 minutes and back in the car. Police attended and I wasn't the only unfortunate motorist that morning.
Anyway, the point of this thread is regarding the tyre on said wheel.
I've sourced another alloy wheel and I'm keen to get a matching tyre as the one which was on the now bent alloy was relatively new. It was a Michelin Pilot Exalto 2 in 195/50 R15. Not a massively expensive tyre, about £70 fitted.
Looking at the old (deflated) tyre there's seemingly nothing wrong with it, no bubbling/blistering and it didn't roll far before all the air was gone from it.
Could this tyre be alright to see another day?
If it beads ok and holds air, would you trust it? With no visible damage is there anything which can be wrong with it? It looks as though the rim of the alloy has taken the impact from the rock and has a nice bend in it.
Just curious as I'm off to the garage in the morning to get it looked at. Car has already had the once-over to check that nothing else is damaged.
Any advice welcome
Not so sure it's scaremongering, more like common sense. If it were a virtually new and expensive tyre then maybe economics would suggest it would be worth getting an expert opinion on it. But it's a cheapy worth no more than a meal out at a local restaurant and has taken a hit large enough to kill the rim. So chuck it in a skip and worry no more about its integrity.
One man's 'cheapy', meal out' is another man's full day's graft.
If I was in this situation I'd put it on the replacement wheel and inflate the tyre, and if it looked alright inflated and didn't look out of shape on the wheel balancer I'd just refit it and keep an eye on it.
If you're going to replace it, of course, received wisdom has it that you must replace the other tyre on that axle too
If I was in this situation I'd put it on the replacement wheel and inflate the tyre, and if it looked alright inflated and didn't look out of shape on the wheel balancer I'd just refit it and keep an eye on it.
If you're going to replace it, of course, received wisdom has it that you must replace the other tyre on that axle too
BritishRacinGrin said:
Sump said:
My bad, I take my comment back. Forgot about the scaremongers on here.
I presume you're aiming that at 'Impasse', because surely you wouldn't suggest that you can tell a tyre is free from damage without inflating it? BritishRacinGrin said:
Sump said:
Tyre will be fine if it looks fine.
No. The tyre is probably fine if it looks fine when inflated. You aren't going to see bulging of deformation of the tyre if it has no air in ot. His question was :
If it beads ok and holds air, would you trust it?
I'd like to see how a tyre beads ok and holds air without air in it
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