Four in the morning is the worst hour to be stuck and one of the best to be fixed. Nothing is open, the buses have not started, and you have just done a shift, which is the part people underrate. A tired driver making decisions about a damaged tyre at four is how a repairable puncture turns into a purchase, or how somebody ends up changing a wheel on a live road because it felt quicker than waiting.
The good news is in the timing. A tyre that picked up a screw on the way in has spent your whole shift standing still, going down slowly in a car park, rather than being driven on. That is the difference between a casing that is fine and a casing that is scrap. Sitting flat on the rim for hours does a tyre almost no harm; a mile at low pressure does a great deal. So the car being dead when you come out to it is not the disaster it feels like. Ring, stay with it, and let the work come to the car.
Shift work and tyre trouble go together, and not in a good way. Whoever comes out can repair as well as replace, so a nail found at that hour does not automatically cost you a tyre, whether the car is in Croydon town centre or at the roadside. Whether it is South End in rush hour or Lower Addiscombe Road at midnight, we answer. On Mitcham Road, day or night, Waddon included, arrival across CR0 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Croydon runs on night work. The trading estates off Purley Way, the early airport starts and the late finishes around the town centre put people beside a car at hours when nothing else is awake. Those are also the hours the roads are empty, so we get across CR0 quickly. If your shift ends at four, ring at four.
A worker came off shift on an estate off Purley Way to a rear tyre flat to the rim. It had taken the screw hours earlier and deflated where it stood. Because nothing had been driven on it, the repair was straightforward.
Another driver moved the car to a better lit corner of the car park first, perhaps four hundred metres. That was enough. The inner liner had chafed itself grey and the casing was finished, so a replacement went on instead.
A dark trading estate at half three is no place to stand about. We ask people to wait inside with the doors locked and the hazards going, and we ring when we are a couple of minutes away rather than arriving unannounced.
Same work, same standard. What changes is that the lighting comes off the van rather than a street lamp, and we work from the kerb side. If anything the tyre is in better condition at four than at nine, because it has not been driven on.
If it is flat, no, and it is worth being blunt. You would arrive with a tyre that cannot be repaired and quite possibly a damaged rim, having driven tired in a car that is not steering properly. It is safer parked than moving.
Not always. If the car is on a drive or in a workplace car park and we can reach the wheel, tell us which car it is and where the key will be, and you can go to sleep.
Part of it makes noise, mostly the compressor and the wrench, and neither runs for long. On a residential road we keep the engine off and get on with it quietly. It is a few minutes of noise rather than a night of it.
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