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Tire Damage - Repair/Replace/Ignore?

  • 05-03-2015 12:48PM
    #1
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭


    So Mrs Raphael had a driving test this morning and got auto failed based on a small gouge in the tire. So I was wondering if any of you could advise on what, if anything needs to be done from a safety/roadworthyness perspective. I've attached pictures of the damage, one with the flap pulled back.

    And before it's mentioned, I'm aiming to get a professional opinion. Just want to have a better idea how things are first.

    Thanks!

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Comments

  • #2
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Get a new tyre. As that is now a weak point in the tyre and could start to bulge or worse fail completly. Never take any chances with tyres even if the damage is small as getting a blowout at 100 or 120kmh can potentially end very badly.


  • #3
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,677 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    New tyre and I would replace the rest of them on the car if they are the same brand if you value her life as they are rubbish.


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    New tyre and I would replace the rest of them on the car if they are the same brand if you value her life as they are rubbish.

    Have to agree. At very least it's one new tire, but you would have to consider replacing the rest if they are all that brand.


  • #5
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Cool, thanks guys. Its the only one of that brand, the rest are better - Matador, iirc. Was an emergency buy after a sidewall puncture, always suspected they gave us a dodgy tire, but we weren't really in a position to negotiate.

    Is there an easy way to tell how urgent it is? Seems like it might just be a cut in the rubber, with no fabric visible - would be a lot easier to replace come payday, if that's not too much if a gamble


  • #6
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Raphael wrote: »
    Cool, thanks guys. Its the only one of that brand, the rest are better - Matador, iirc. Was an emergency buy after a sidewall puncture, always suspected they gave us a dodgy tire, but we weren't really in a position to negotiate.

    Is there an easy way to tell how urgent it is? Seems like it might just be a cut in the rubber, with no fabric visible - would be a lot easier to replace come payday.

    Don't drive till payday, so. It's a tyre. It's a quarter of your wife's car's already tiny contact area with the road.

    How's the spare?


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  • #7
    stefanovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    Raphael wrote: »
    I've attached pictures of the damage, one with the flap pulled back.
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    Don't see any attachment.


  • #8
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    endacl wrote: »
    Don't drive till payday, so. It's a tyre. It's a quarter of your wife's car's already tiny contact area with the road.

    How's the spare?

    Non present. Car only came with a puncture repair kit.

    FWIW, I am listening to what's being said, and I'm not going to be a muppet with this. If it needs a new tire asap, which seems to be the consensus, then we'll suck it up and get one before we do any driving. Was just trying to determine if there was a scale from "you should sort that when you get a chance" and " taking your life into your hands", and how to rate damage in that, yknow?
    stefanovich wrote: »
    Don't see any attachment.

    Should be two Dropbox links embedded in the post, might be blocked where you are?


  • #9
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    New tyre and I would replace the rest of them on the car if they are the same brand if you value her life as they are rubbish.

    How do you know what brand the tyres are to warrant calling them rubbish?


  • #10
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Raphael wrote: »
    Non present. Car only came with a puncture repair kit.

    FWIW, I am listening to what's being said, and I'm not going to be a muppet with this. If it needs a new tire asap, which seems to be the consensus, then we'll suck it up and get one before we do any driving. Was just trying to determine if there was a scale from "you should sort that when you get a chance" and " taking your life into your hands", and how to rate damage in that, yknow?



    Should be two Dropbox links embedded in the post, might be blocked where you are?

    I can't see the pictures but your first post sent a shiver down my back. If you can hold a piece of you're tyre back to get a picture it needs to come off ASAP, I'd even consider getting it recovered to a tyre centre. Its the most important safety device on the vehicle so get it changed.


  • #11
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Hm, link seems to be broken, actually. Ah well, it served its purpose. Will look into getting it sorted asap.

    You know the worst part of all this? I'm fairly sure its my fault. Hit a kerb last week and never checked for damage, and that's the only time I can think of that it could have happened. Guess I'm on the hook for a tire (or two), a test, and an early morning. :(


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  • #12
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,677 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    How do you know what brand the tyres are to warrant calling them rubbish?

    I can only see "...MORAN" as the make, never heard of these and I can see from the quality of the rubber pattern in the build they are cheap rubbish that I wouldn't put on a wheelbarrow.


  • #13
    VeVeX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭VeVeX


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can only see "...MORAN" as the make, never heard of these and I can see from the quality of the rubber pattern in the build they are cheap rubbish that I wouldn't put on a wheelbarrow.

    Kormoran are actually far from the worst tyre to grace our roads.


  • #14
    mossy50
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭mossy50


    throw on the spare tyre


  • #15
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Raphael wrote: »
    Hm, link seems to be broken, actually. Ah well, it served its purpose. Will look into getting it sorted asap.

    I can see them now, was on a tablet earlier.
    Raphael wrote: »
    You know the worst part of all this? I'm fairly sure its my fault. Hit a kerb last week and never checked for damage, and that's the only time I can think of that it could have happened. Guess I'm on the hook for a tire (or two), a test, and an early morning. :(

    At least they look like they've been used a bit. A few years ago I got new tyres and the next week driving across a junction caught a piece of metal and about an inch blew out of my tyre.

    mossy50 wrote: »
    throw on the spare tyre

    The car has none. This shows how the drive for lower fuel usage has it's dangerous side.


  • #16
    9935452
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,866 ✭✭✭9935452


    VeVeX wrote: »
    Kormoran are actually far from the worst tyre to grace our roads.

    would you put 4 of them on your car


  • #17
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭visual


    Look at photo it appears alloy is damaged at same point that would suggest a pothole or similar. The cut in tyre is the only visible damage but there be invisable damaged inside and could never be trusted.


  • #18
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭visual


    Look at photo it appears alloy is damaged at same point that would suggest a pothole or similar. The cut in tyre is the only visible damage but there be invisable damaged inside and could never be trusted.


  • #19
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can only see "...MORAN" as the make, never heard of these and I can see from the quality of the rubber pattern in the build they are cheap rubbish that I wouldn't put on a wheelbarrow.
    I'll have you know they are perfectly suited to wheelbarrowing


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