Most cars built in the last decade or so are watching their own tyre pressures, and how they do it decides what has to happen after a wheel comes off. Some cars carry a sensor inside each wheel broadcasting a pressure and an identity. Others infer a soft tyre from how fast each wheel is turning. The first kind sometimes needs telling that a wheel has moved or that a sensor has been changed. The second kind needs resetting so it takes the new pressures as its baseline.
At night that matters for one very practical reason: a warning light still glowing as we drive away is not something anybody wants to puzzle over at two in the morning. So the reset or the relearn happens as part of the job, before the tools go back in the van, and if the system needs a short drive to settle we say so rather than leaving you to discover it. It is a small thing and it is the difference between finishing the job and finishing most of it. We work across WC1V and WC1X every night of the year.
Tyres pick their moment badly. It is two in the morning on Theobalds Road, or ten past six on a Sunday with the car on a driveway in High Holborn and somewhere to be by eight. Steep camber in Chancery Lane? We move a few metres, the Lamb's Conduit Street area or anywhere else. Blocked drive in Red Lion Square? Open kerb in Gray's Inn Road? Either works. WC1V takes in Gray's Inn Road and Theobalds Road, and we work the lot.
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Holborn is offices, chambers and university buildings, which means a great many cars here are parked overnight in metered or permit bays and then driven early. A warning light appearing the first time the car moves in the morning is a poor start to a day, particularly when the tyre is perfectly fine and the system simply needed clearing. Sorting it as part of the night's work costs nothing and removes the phone call that would otherwise arrive at half past eight.
A wheel changed in a permit space near Lamb's Conduit Street at midnight, with the system reset and the warning cleared before the van moved off.
A replacement tyre fitted off Theobalds Road had its existing sensor kept with the wheel rather than going in the skip with the old tyre, which happens more often than it should.
One car needed a short run before the system would settle. The driver was told that before we left rather than ringing about it the following day.
It is telling the car that something has changed. Depending on the system, that means resetting the baseline pressures or letting the car re register which sensor sits at which corner. Some do it automatically after a short drive and some need it done directly.
Usually, and if it needs a few miles to clear we will tell you before we leave. What we will not do is drive off leaving a light on and let you find out about it in the morning.
The sensor lives in the wheel rather than the tyre, so it stays with the wheel when the old tyre comes off and the new one goes on. It gets checked while it is accessible, because that is the only time it easily can be.
Yes. Everything needed travels on the van, including the means of resetting the system. Nights, weekends and bank holidays are ordinary hours here, and typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes.
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