Reasonably urgent tyre question

Posted a thread about wife's car, egg on sidewall...result being new tyre.Spare went on the front alonside the new tyre.

Seems there is a rip on the raised bit of rubber on the sidewall of the spare now.I really cannot believe this:(

Hope people know what thin strip of raised rubber I mean.Question is,is this yet another ruined tyre.Basically its still new

I know exactly what a tyre shop would tell me,so any impartial advice appreciated

The raised bit of rubber is designed to be ripped, as long as its not to bad you will be fine. Its like this to stop the alloy being damaged, so you just rub away at this extended part.

:iagree: also can assure you that normal tyres are probably more prone to egging on side walls, usually caused by kerbing or running up a high kerb or hitting a pot hole etc (very common occuraance on PO vans )

Sounds like a "kerbing strip", to protect the wheel.

If a tyre "eggs" it needs replacing soonest, but it's legal to run tyres with shallow cuts (not down to belts) IIRC.

Thanks folks.The egg problem was sorted straight away.This is a different tyre.

It's just that strip that has about half an inch flapping away.I feel reassured though.Thought that would be tyre number 8 in 12 months!!

Maybe you should replace the driver, if she's kerbed 2 tyres hard enough to egg or tear the wall in as many months?

Rubber Strip can be tidied up using bicycle tyre repair glue (rubbery stuff that comes with puncture kits for bikes!) or even superglue that's rubber friendly. Looks less untidy then.....