An impact gun does not know how tight it has made anything. It hammers away until it stalls, and where it stalls depends on line pressure, battery charge, the temperature of the tool and how long somebody keeps their finger down. Run one onto a wheel and the result is a lottery: a nut left slack on one stud and pulled past its yield on the next, stretched threads, and enough uneven clamping load to leave a brake disc running out of true. Nuts go on by hand, come up to the figure the manufacturer specifies with a torque wrench, and get checked again once the car is back on its own weight.
At two in the morning there is a second reason, and it is the flats. The permit streets around St Luke's are somebody's bedroom with a parking bay outside them, and a rattle gun at that hour goes through double glazing as though it were not there. So the night kit is deliberately quiet: a breaker bar, a torque wrench, our own lighting on a stand and a compressor that runs for as long as it takes and no longer. Nobody upstairs finds out it happened, and the wheel goes back on to a known figure, which is the part that still matters at three in the morning.
A 24-hour service is only worth anything if somebody actually sets off. Whether it is the middle of the night on City Road or first thing on a Sunday with the car sat outside the house in Moorfields, the phone gets answered, a fully-equipped van is dispatched and the tyre is repaired or replaced where the car is standing. Steep camber in the Featherstone Street area? We move a few metres, the Bunhill Fields area or anywhere else. Blocked drive in St Luke's? Open kerb in Moorfields? Either works.

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This part of town empties at night in a way that surprises people who only know it at nine in the morning. The offices go dark, the roundabout goes quiet, and what is left is residential: converted warehouses, older blocks and a lot of people asleep directly above the bay we are working in. That shapes how the job gets done rather more than the darkness does. Hand tools, one light on a stand, the compressor run in short bursts, and a car that goes back together to a proper figure before anybody drives away.
A car in a permit bay had four nuts on one wheel that had been run up with a gun somewhere else, and two of them needed a long bar to shift. One stud had stretched enough to feel through the wrench. They went back on to the correct figure.
A late call outside a converted warehouse with flats above it. The whole job was done with hand tools and a stand light, and the only thing anybody upstairs could have heard was the compressor for well under a minute.
Torque changes slightly once the car is lowered and the wheel pulls square against the hub. We drop it, take the jack away and go round the nuts a second time. It costs about a minute and it is the difference between a wheel that stays put and one that works loose.
Yes. Wheel nuts are a clamping system rather than a set of things to be made tight. Too little and the wheel works against the hub until the studs fatigue. Too much and a stud is stretched past the point it springs back from, so it is already failing while looking perfectly normal from outside.
Not with anything we can help. The noisy tool is the impact gun and we do not use one after hours, so what is left is a bar, a wrench and a short run of the compressor. Lighting comes off a stand rather than from a car left idling under somebody's window.
It does no harm and we would not talk anybody out of it, though the check that counts is the one we do before leaving, with the car on the ground. If you have ever had a wheel fitted somewhere that used a gun and nothing else, having the torque verified afterwards is genuinely worth the trouble.
We are working, not taking bookings. The phone is answered at three in the morning by somebody who can send a van, and nights across EC1V and EC1Y are ordinary shifts here rather than an exception. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes once we know where the car is standing.
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