A tyre change is a fixed sequence and none of it can be hurried. The car is lifted and supported, the wheel comes off, the hub face gets cleaned, both beads are broken off the rim, the old tyre comes away, the inside of the casing is inspected, the valve and the seals are dealt with, the new tyre goes on, both beads are seated, the pressures are set to the car's own figures, the wheel is balanced, the bolts go up in sequence, and the car's warning system is cleared. That list does not get shorter at three in the morning.
It is worth saying because people apologise for the hour, then ask, reasonably enough, whether a night job is a rougher version of the day job. It is not. The same machine and the same balancer come off the same van, and a wheel gets balanced on a quiet street outside a hotel exactly as it would at midday. What genuinely changes after dark is everything around the work rather than the work itself. We set our own lighting up before anything is touched, there is far more room to stand the van somewhere sensible, and the roads move, so we usually reach you quicker than we would at four in the afternoon.
Nobody plans a tyre emergency into the diary. We are not: dispatch runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across Greater London, and the van carries enough to finish the job on the spot rather than book you in. The Porchester phone and the Cleveland Square phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Westbourne Grove, midday in Inverness Terrace, the same call either way.
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Bayswater does not really have a quiet hour. The hotels along Queensway and the traffic feeding Bayswater Road keep people arriving and setting off through the night, so a good share of our calls here come from drivers who have just got in or have to leave shortly. The advantage after midnight is space. There is somewhere to put the van, room to stand a wheel down and enough kerb to work at without holding anybody up, which is more than can usually be said for the same street in the afternoon.
A wheel came off a car on Porchester Road in the small hours and went onto the balancer on the pavement beside it, the same as it would have at lunchtime. Leaving that step out is how a night job turns into a vibration at speed a week later.
Nothing gets touched until the working area is lit properly. Working off a phone torch is how bolts get cross threaded and how damage inside a casing gets missed, and it does not actually save any time.
Arrival times are usually better after midnight because the roads are empty, and that is the one part of the night which genuinely works in your favour. The fitting itself takes exactly what it takes.
No. The sequence at three in the morning is the sequence at three in the afternoon, including balancing the wheel and setting the pressures to the car's own figures rather than to a round number. A job that has been abbreviated is a job you find out about later on.
For one wheel, usually well under an hour once we are with you, assuming nothing unexpected turns up when the tyre comes off the rim. Four takes rather less than four times as long, because the car only gets set up once and the rhythm improves after the first.
Yes, on the balancer that lives in the van. An unbalanced wheel is not obvious at town speeds and becomes very obvious on a fast road, so skipping it would only move the problem into the following morning.
That is a fair question and only you can weigh it. Nothing gets worse overnight provided nobody drives the car on the flat tyre. If you need to be somewhere early, doing it at two rather than at eight avoids the traffic entirely. We work every night of the year either way.
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