The car does not have to go anywhere. That is the part people take longest to believe, particularly at half past four in the morning when they are due on shift and their car is boxed in by two others on a street where nobody has left a gap since the previous evening.
A mobile tyre change needs the corner with the damaged tyre and enough room beside it to stand, kneel and swing a bar. It does not need the car out of the space, it does not need it square to the kerb, and it does not need a level surface so much as a predictable one. Bumper to bumper is fine. Nose in to a wall is fine, as long as the bad corner faces the road.
What genuinely stops us is a wheel on the offside pressed hard against another vehicle, a live traffic lane, or a slope steep enough that lifting one corner would be unwise. If that is your situation you hear it on the phone rather than watch somebody turn up and shrug.
The clock does not change the standard. We work by van lighting, wherever the car is stopped, on a driveway in Hither Green or at the kerb, and if the tyre cannot be saved you get told at that hour rather than in the morning. Whether it is Bellingham in rush hour or the South Circular at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Southend included, arrival across SE6 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Streets off Bromley Road and around Rushey Green fill up by early evening and do not empty again until people leave for work, which is precisely when a shift driver needs the car. None of that is a problem for a fitting van. We take the corner we need, work from the road side, and leave the car in the space it never left.
An early start, an offside rear flat and roughly a foot of gap at either end of the car. None of it mattered. The wheel was on the road side, the work happened from the road side, and the driver made the shift.
A car parked hard against a wall in a bay near Catford Broadway with the damaged tyre facing out. That is the good version of being stuck. Lifting gear down on boards, wheel off, replacement fitted and torqued.
A driver spent forty minutes knocking on doors trying to get the car released before ringing us, and none of it was necessary. Ask the question first. Most of the time the car can stay exactly where it is.
Almost always. We work at one corner rather than on the car as a whole, so the space in front and behind matters far less than the space beside the bad wheel. Tell us which corner it is and you get a straight answer on the call.
Enough to kneel beside the wheel and swing a bar, so roughly the width of an open door at that corner. A cambered kerb is ordinary and we carry boards for it. The pavement side works too if the road side is blocked.
Catford Hill and the turnings off it are steep enough to take seriously, and we do. The car gets chocked, the lifting point levelled and the weight supported before a nut is touched. We will not lift a car on a gradient with whatever came in the boot.
Yes, with the key and the locking nut key if the car carries one. You are told afterwards whether it turned out to be a repair or a replacement, and the old tyre leaves with us either way.
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