Here is a discovery that only ever happens at a bad hour: the little socket that undoes one nut on each wheel is not in the car. Not in the glovebox, not in the boot well, not in the door pocket. It was last seen by whoever did the tyres before you, or it left with the previous owner.
At midnight there is nowhere to get another. Dealers are shut, and even open they want the code that came with the car and several days. Your spare is under the floor and completely beside the point, because the wheel it would replace is held on by a nut nothing in your kit fits. Nobody keeps a spare for a part nobody ever thinks about.
That is one of the genuinely common reasons a car sits where it stopped until morning, and it is entirely avoidable, because the tool that removes a locking nut without its key rides on the van as standard. Say on the phone that the key is missing and it becomes a step at the beginning of the job rather than the surprise that ends it.
The call might come from Whitton at midnight or from Twickenham town centre at six on a Sunday morning. If you are stopped on Richmond Road in the dark, say so when you call and we will prioritise it. Whether it is Strawberry Hill in rush hour or London Road at midnight, we answer. On Whitton Road, day or night, Strawberry Hill included, arrival across TW1 runs 30 to 60 minutes. TW1 takes in St Margarets and Whitton, and we work the lot.
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There are plenty of streets around here where a car simply has to stay put for hours, and a missing key turns a twenty minute problem into exactly that kind of night. On London Road, or a terrace off Heath Road, there is no shuffling the car somewhere more convenient. The gear comes to wherever it stopped.
A driver in St Margarets had got as far as loosening three nuts on a Sunday night before finding that the fourth wanted a key nobody could locate. One call, and the wheel was off within half an hour of us arriving.
Worth two minutes before you ring. Under the boot floor with the jack, inside the spare wheel, in the tool roll, clipped into a recess in the boot side. On plenty of cars it lives in the glovebox in a small plastic sleeve.
Almost nobody discovers a missing key on a quiet afternoon. It surfaces on Whitton Road with a flat tyre and somewhere to be, which is the single moment it costs you something. Checking for it tonight takes less time than reading this.
Yes. There is a tool that grips the outside of the nut rather than the pattern inside it, so a missing key or a chewed one makes no difference to the outcome. It adds a step at the start and it is routine on night calls.
Not tonight, and often not at all. A new key needs the code, takes days to arrive and still leaves you with a nut that has a habit of rounding off. Once the old one is out, a plain nut on that corner makes the next removal ordinary.
Not when it is done at a sensible pace. The tool is centred by the nut and bears on the nut, and the effort goes through a long bar rather than an air gun. Rushing that stage is what scars wheel faces.
If the car is stranded, yes. We are out every night of the year and the hour makes no difference to what you pay. Leaving a car standing on a flat tyre until a garage opens routinely turns a repairable puncture into a new tyre.
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