Tyre safety question

[jboy72]

Would anyone drive on this? It's a £300 tyre with full tread hence I'm keen to use it if I can! I suspect I know the answer, just looking for fellow PH affirmation before I order from camskill!

[Bodie390]

I wouldn't chance it.

[msej449]

Absolutely not. Far too much potential sidewall belt damage. Also looks like it may extend to the tread edge as well. New tyre, I'm afraid. Bad luck - I did something similar myself on my last car and it's an annoying unplanned expense.

When you say 'full tread' I'm assuming there's not much more than 1mm of wear? Much more than that and you start to get worried about differences in the tread behaviour left versus right.

Edited by msej449 on Saturday 4th November 14:07

[helix402]

No, ‘tis scrap.

[shakindog]

I wouldn’t even chance that driving to the end of the street.
Put spare on if you have one and get a new tyre.
Looking at the damage to the sidewall and shoulder the carcass is compromised.
I’m surprised it didn’t rupture the sidewall plies and unzip when the damage happened.
What caused it as looks too messy to be a kerb

[jboy72]

shakindog said:

I wouldn’t even chance that driving to the end of the street.
Put spare on if you have one and get a new tyre.
Looking at the damage to the sidewall and shoulder the carcass is compromised.
I’m surprised it didn’t rupture the sidewall plies and unzip when the damage happened.
What caused it as looks too messy to be a kerb

Good question - my mechanic when reversing the car out of a bay. Presumably he glanced a wall. He replaced the wheel arch, tyre and had the wheel refurbished at lepsons. His fault entirely but he didnt skimp on anything thankfully. He gave me the old tyre ie the one in the photo and reckoned it was usable. Ironically, the other tyre on the same axle became flat only a couple of weeks later. I have no idea how this happened - its a runflat and i didnt notice anything until the TPMS alert. Sure enough, it was down at 5psi - pumped it up but its not holding air. It would have been neat if I could have used the damaged tyre but I will just bite the ruddy bullet.