The 24 hour garage a mile up the road sells fuel, coffee and air. None of those three is a tyre. There is nobody on shift who can break a bead, no stock in your size, and the machine on the forecourt only puts air into a tyre that has a hole in it.
So the drive there is the whole cost. Rolling on a tyre with next to nothing in it folds the sidewall over at the contact patch and pulls it straight again every turn of the wheel, and the heat that generates is what finishes the casing. You arrive with a tyre that could have been repaired and is now scrap, and you still cannot get it fixed.
At night the judgement is harder, because you cannot see how flat it is. Under an orange street light a tyre at half pressure looks much like a full one, and the one that feels firm enough to a thumb is often the one that has already gone. Leave it standing and ring instead. We are out across the area every night of the year.
It is worth saying plainly what "24 hours" covers, because the phrase gets used loosely. Whether the car sits on a drive in Rosehill or has stopped somewhere less convenient, the service is the same. Tight in Benhilton, easy in Belmont: neither stops the job. Level in Cheam, sloping in Rosehill: we set the car straight first.
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Sutton empties out at night, and that changes what is available rather than what is possible. Every fitting bay around the town centre is shut, so the only lit thing on the way home is a forecourt that cannot help you. Streets off the A24 London Road and around Sutton Common are quiet enough at two in the morning for us to work at the kerb.
A driver with a slow puncture took it up to the nearest all night forecourt at one in the morning, filled it and came home. By the time we saw the tyre, the shoulder had scrubbed a band right round and the inside had broken up.
Same problem, opposite decision. The car stayed on the drive with a nail in it and we came out at half two. That tyre had never been run soft, so it took a proper repair and went back on the same wheel it came off.
A flat found in a bay after a late shift, nowhere open and a long walk home. Moving the car would have cost the tyre and gained nothing, so it stayed put until we got there and the repair happened in the bay.
Because nothing was fixed. Air goes in, air comes out through the same hole, and all you bought is the time it takes to leak again. Meanwhile the tyre has done the trip there and back at low pressure, which is the part that does the harm.
Far enough to be clear of moving traffic and somewhere we can stand safely beside it, and no further. A few car lengths at walking pace rarely matters. A run up the road at any real speed usually does.
If the car is parked somewhere legal and safe, leaving it standing does it no harm at all. The point is that you do not have to. We work nights, weekends and bank holidays as a matter of course.
Not really. It tells us very little, and a tyre that holds air for ten minutes is what tempts somebody into the drive that costs them the tyre. Standing still with the hazards on is already the right thing to do.
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