Walked back to the car in a Longbridge or West Bromwich car park and found a bulge, a cut or cords showing? You get a clear verdict and a replacement on the spot.
Kerbs on the tight slip roads at Birchley Island and the concrete edging along the elevated M5 can catch wheels without the driver noticing. The damage tends to show later, when the car has sat through a shift in a West Bromwich retail park or overnight at home in Bartley Green: a lump on the sidewall, a gash with fabric visible, or cracking across the tread blocks after a heavy pothole strike.
Photograph the bulge or cut, then the size code beside it, and send both. A swelling on the side tells us the cords inside have parted, and a casing in that state may let go at any moment, so our advice is to keep it off the M5, even for the short hop to Frankley. Surface scuffing that never reaches the cords can wait. Either way the verdict is honest, you hear the cost before we set off, and the new tyre is fitted where you parked.
Need something else? Our pages on emergency tyre replacement on the M5 and locking wheel nut removal explain those jobs.
A driveway in Halesowen, a staff car park off the A41 or a Longbridge town centre car park, once the operator agrees, suits a broken tyre job. If the split appeared while on the motorway, recovery gets the car off it first.
| Road | M5 West Bromwich to Droitwich |
|---|---|
| Operator | National Highways |
Damaged tyres: drive on it or replace it? →Broken tyre replacement on the M5 page
Off J3 towards Halesowen, Coombs Road, the A4099, and the streets around Hawne give places to leave a car with a split tyre, away from the motorway, with Cradley Heath station a landmark further west. When you call, describe the damage: a cut in the sidewall, a bulge or a tread that has come away. Sidewall harm of that kind nearly always means fitting a new tyre rather than mending the old one.
Check the M5 tyre in daylight or by torch. A sidewall bulge, a gash that reaches the cord, a tread split or a flat spot all mean it stays off the M5. Tread thinner than 1.6 mm puts it outside the law as well. At 70 a weakened tyre can fail without warning, which is worse with concrete barriers close by on the viaduct. Kerbed junction islands such as Birchley Island at J2 are an easy place to catch a sidewall.
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Split or bulging tyre off the M5? Leave it parked and we replace it there.
