Quick tyre question: Save or sling?

[SteBrown91]

Is this tyre save able? It's not leaking and can't see any canvas but concerned that it's on the front now (spotted it when swapping the wheels front to back)

[HustleRussell]

If you prise the cut open with your fingernails, can you see any steel or fibres etc or just rubber? If just rubber I'd probably continue to use it.

[TooMany2cvs]

SteBrown91 said:

Is this tyre save able? It's not leaking and can't see any canvas but concerned that it's on the front now (spotted it when swapping the wheels front to back)

I'd call that utterly fubar.

[GreigM]

HustleRussell said:

If you prise the cut open with your fingernails, can you see any steel or fibres etc or just rubber? If just rubber I'd probably continue to use it.

This. Can't see that its down to the canvas so I'd use it without worry.

[df76]

I've had something simon on the sidewall, I don't think it'll be going back on the car

[SteBrown91]

GreigM said:

This. Can't see that its down to the canvas so I'd use it without worry.

It didn't look like it was down to the canvas but as it is quite a narrow slit it was difficult to pull the rubber apart to see, hopefully that's a good sign.

[Who me ?]

SLING. It's narrow at moment, and possibly just skin deep, but what happens after the tread has gotten hot and flexed a bit more. And one day at 70( or 70+) the crack opens and the tyre deflates in a hurry ?

df76- it's not just the crack on that one that would make me say BIN, it's the wear on the side of the side wall-possible kerb rubbing .

[SteBrown91]

Regardless it's going to have to stay for the next couple of weeks at least, as Friday I'm coughing up for 2 assemetric 3s and it also looks like offside camber is miles out as inside shoulder has worn badly so tracking will need to be done too.

The damaged tyre and the matching one on the other side are assemetric 2s that have barely worn so a bit gutted really

[TooMany2cvs]

df76 said:

I've had something simon on the sidewall, I don't think it'll be going back on the car

That looks fairly knackered anyway.

[MrBarry123]

df76 said:

I've had something simon on the sidewall, I don't think it'll be going back on the car

Bloody Simon! Coming over to you and ruining your tyre!

That tyre does look buggered, regardless of the slit.

[HustleRussell]

Who me said:

SLING. It's narrow at moment, and possibly just skin deep, but what happens after the tread has gotten hot and flexed a bit more. And one day at 70( or 70+) the crack opens and the tyre deflates in a hurry ?

If the cords aren't visible and there is no sign of distortion around the cut, you can be fairly confident it isn't going to start losing air. There are a couple more layers of rubber and polymer bands before you get down to the air.

Edited by HustleRussell on Thursday 28th July 09:49

[996TT02]

HustleRussell said:

[quote=Who me ?]SLING. It's narrow at moment, and possibly just skin deep, but what happens after the tread has gotten hot and flexed a bit more. And one day at 70( or 70+) the crack opens and the tyre deflates in a hurry ?

If the cords aren't visible and there is no sign of distortion around the cut, you can be fairly confident it isn't going to start losing air. There are a couple more layers of rubber and polymer bands before you get down to the air.

Yes, and also while the close up pic makes the damage look massive, scaling it to the grooves indicates that it's actually far from.