A security light is a wonderful thing for finding your keys and a poor thing for working on a car. It throws one hard shadow, it puts everything under the arch into darkness, and it switches itself off at about the moment you have a wheel off and something in front of you that you need to see properly.
So we bring our own. Two things change when a job is on a private drive rather than a street. We can get all the way round the car, and we can put light exactly where the work is instead of where the house wanted it. A wheel can be laid flat, the tyre can come off the rim and the inside of the casing can actually be read, which is the part that decides whether you are buying a repair or a tyre.
The surface matters more than the light does. A jack wants firm level ground under its pad, so a drive that falls away towards the road, or one laid in loose block paving or gravel, is worth mentioning when you ring so that we arrive expecting it.
Nobody plans a tyre emergency into the diary. We are not: dispatch runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across SW4, and the van carries enough to finish the job on the spot rather than book you in. Whether it is Abbeville Village in rush hour or Kings Avenue at midnight, we answer. On Kings Avenue, day or night, Abbeville Village included, arrival across SW4 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Off-street parking is scarce in this part of SW4, so when a car is on a drive it is usually around Clapham Park or the streets towards Abbeville Village, and usually behind a gate. Tell us whether there is a gate, a slope or loose paving, and whether the light is on a timer, and the van turns up set up for it.
The owner had already tried in the dark, with the security light timing out every ninety seconds. We set our own lighting on the offside, took the wheel off and had the nail located inside a minute. The visit took half an hour.
A drive falling away towards the pavement off Abbeville Road, which is a poor place to put a jack. The car was chocked and the jack sited on the flattest part of the slab, and the wheel came off without the car shifting an inch.
A late call where the owner handed over the key and went back inside. The tyre was repaired to standard, balanced, torqued and the pressures set, and they came out to a finished car and a card machine.
No, and on a drive there is no reason to. Leave the car accessible, tell us which one it is and where the locking key lives, then go back in. We will knock when the wheel is back on rather than have you standing in the cold.
Considerably, at night. No traffic passing a foot from the fitter, room to work both sides of the car, somewhere flat to lay the wheel down, and no reason to hurry. Street jobs are normal for us, but on a drive the work is easier and quicker.
It is worth saying on the phone. A jack pad sinks into loose gravel unevenly, which is exactly what nobody wants under a lifted car. We carry boards to spread the load, and if it is really soft we may ask to move the car onto the flat by the gate.
Any hour. We run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the small hours are genuinely quiet working time rather than an exception we grumble about. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes, and you get a real time on the phone rather than a hopeful one.
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