Possible Clues:

• Maigret readership includes one brought out of retirement
• Not an original
• Retired person returning has to go over the same ground
• Old tyre made new
• One way to cure baldness?
• On time to pick up tyre that's been mended
• "What's wrong with the first one?" work
• 'What's wrong with the first one?' work
• Bird goes round picking up drugs and used rubber
• Freshly capped tire