Another vote for replace  2007 Zermatt Silver TDV8 Vogue SE - now sold but was a great car!

Replace ASAP.

Have let him know the opinions on here and told him to get the tyre off.


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Several years ago I had the same issue on my wife's 1 series. It was snowy weather so she had nicked the range rover to go to work and left me with her car which was handling funny despite the snow. Took it to our local tyre place who showed me the same as your pictures but on 3 out of the 4 tyres - tyre place thought that it could have been due to running with the tyres at too low a pressure.

Point being (as stan said) if the reinforcing wires are poking out from the tyre then replace it before it fails in a more spectacular fashion...

Not that I am bitter or holding a grudge but I still remember that day as she left me her car needing fuel and I had to replace all 4 tyres... £500 spent on her car

Every time i look a swmbos car it has yet more chunks taken out of the tyres.

I just replaced the 4 tyres with new mich pilot sports. 5k in and it needs a new front as she has kerbed it and ripped a 3"
Chunk off the sidewall. Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggh. Thats after having to replace 2 perfectly good contis on it last year for the same reason.

Next time shes having bleeding "flangwang radials" from the cheapest bidder as she never goes more than 30 in the blasted thing. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Those wires are known in the trade as "wild wire" and are the result of the bead bundle breaking up and the resultant wires pushing their way through the rubber on the sidewall or tread layer. This is almost always caused by impact iwth a blunt object such as a gutter or large rock. This is not a manufacturing fault as such and you will have no joy in trying to claim it but there is always some discussion amongst the tyre cogniscentti about this being the wrong way for a tyre to fail from this type of impact. I guess the conclusion from this train of thought is that the construction allowed this type of failure and that maybe a fault lay there?
Anyway, thats what I can tell you from having seen many of these over the years

northernmonkeyjones wrote:

Every time i look a swmbos car it has yet more chunks taken out of the tyres.

I just replaced the 4 tyres with new mich pilot sports. 5k in and it needs a new front as she has kerbed it and ripped a 3"
Chunk off the sidewall. Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggh. Thats after having to replace 2 perfectly good contis on it last year for the same reason.

Next time shes having bleeding "flangwang radials" from the cheapest bidder as she never goes more than 30 in the blasted thing.

Theres a reason my wife gets to drive this......

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