The first cold night of the year fills our phone, and most of those calls are not punctures. Air contracts as it cools: a tyre loses roughly two psi for every ten degrees the temperature drops, so a set inflated on a mild afternoon in a yard off Coldharbour Lane can be showing a warning light by five the next morning with nothing wrong with it.
That cuts both ways, which is why a cold morning warning is worth taking seriously. A slow leak that has been quietly losing air all summer stays hidden while warm days top the pressure back up. Take ten degrees out of the night and the same tyre falls below the level where the sensor speaks up, usually while the car is parked and you are asleep.
So the honest answer at five in the morning is that it might be nothing and it might be the thing you have been driving on for weeks. Both take the same few minutes to tell apart, and only one ends in buying a tyre.
Away from home is when it stings. A hotel car park, a friend's street, somewhere you do not know and where you certainly do not know which fitter to ring. If that happens to be Hayes Town or anywhere else round Hayes, it is one number. School run in Wood End or 1am in Harlington, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Botwell, any day in Yeading: the line is open. The UB3 postcode and a street in Yeading: that is enough.
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The phone starts on cold mornings, usually from somebody walking out to a car at four with a warning light and a shift to get to. Around Hayes Town and the streets off the A4020 Uxbridge Road that is a short run for us at that hour, and if what you need is air rather than a repair you will hear it on the phone.
A call at half past five from a driver in Wood End who had assumed the worst. All four tyres were low by a similar amount, and the coldest night of the month was the whole explanation. Pressures set from the door plate and nothing sold.
The same symptom on a car in Botwell, except one tyre was down and the other three were not. That difference is the entire diagnosis. There was a tack in the tread getting away with it since the summer, sealed at the kerb.
A driver topped up at a forecourt straight after a long run and set every tyre to the plate figure while they were still hot. By the next cold morning all four were under. Pressure is a cold measurement, which is what the door shut figure assumes.
No, and in the first cold week of the year it usually is not. If every tyre has dropped by a similar amount, temperature is the likeliest answer. If one is down and the rest are level, something has gone into it.
Cold, meaning the car has stood a couple of hours or moved only a short distance. A tyre warmed by a run reads several psi higher than it will once it settles, so setting it hot leaves it under-inflated later. Never bleed air out of a hot tyre.
Set them to the plate figure on a cold tyre and that is right for any season. What changes in the cold months is how often they want looking at, because every cold snap takes a little more out. A check once a fortnight catches the drift.
Probably not, and you will be told so. A tyre a few psi down that holds what you put in is a job for an airline on your way past a forecourt. What we come out for is the one that will not hold pressure at all.
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