The narrow wheel under the boot floor is not a spare tyre. It is a device for getting a car away from a dangerous place and no further, and its own sticker says so: a speed limit, usually fifty, and on many cars a distance limit alongside it. It is narrower than the tyre it replaces, so that corner has less rubber on the road than the maker intended, and the braking and stability systems were set up expecting four matching tyres.
At night that matters more, not less. Wet roads, poor light and one corner behaving differently from the other three is not a combination to invite at eleven at night. There is also the fitting itself, which means kneeling beside a jacked car in the dark, often on a camber, with traffic a metre away. And when it is on, you still have a punctured tyre in the boot and a job waiting for you tomorrow. Calling somebody out replaces all of that with waiting in a locked car.
Private hire and taxi drivers ring us more than anyone, and always at the same hours. So the job gets done where the car is, at the hour it happened, anywhere in SW2: repaired to British Standard where the tyre allows it, replaced from stock where it does not. Whether it is Furzedown in rush hour or Tooting Bec Gardens at midnight, we answer. On Mitcham Lane, day or night, Furzedown included, arrival across SW2 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Streatham Hill and the roads off the High Road are neither level nor wide, and the bays are full nose to tail, so there is rarely a flat metre of ground to jack a car on. That is much of why the narrow wheel is a bad answer in this particular place. We work off the kerb side with our own lighting, at whatever hour the tyre happened to pick.
Space savers sit untouched for years and lose air the whole time. They also run at a far higher pressure than the road tyres, so a soft one is a long way soft. A fair number would not have got anybody home.
A driver stopped part way up Streatham Hill with a flat and was about to fit the narrow wheel on the camber. A car balanced on a scissor jack on a slope in the rain is a poor idea at midnight. We fitted the proper tyre.
Plenty of newer cars carry a can of sealant in place of a wheel. Once that foam has gone into a tyre the repair option usually goes with it, and the pressure sensor often follows. Turning up with the correct tyre saves you both.
No. The limit is about the wheel and the tyre rather than the traffic. It is a narrow rim with a thin tread and a small volume of air, it heats up quickly and it changes the way the car turns and stops. An empty road makes none of that less true.
As short a time as you can manage. It is meant to be temporary and on many cars a mileage figure is printed on it. Past that you are driving with a known handicap on one corner and a punctured tyre still to sort out.
At the roadside at night, in most cases yes. If the car is somewhere genuinely dangerous, get it clear by whatever means you have. If it is parked and safe, leave it alone, wait inside it, and let the job be done with the right tyre.
The van is loaded the same at three in the morning as at three in the afternoon, with the common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes on board. Most night calls get a repair or the correct new tyre there and then.
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