Half eleven at night, the car sitting on a drive in Southwold, and the nearside front has gone soft since you parked it. By morning there are two choices: crawl down to whoever opens at eight and hope, or have it dealt with now while it is still a repair rather than a purchase. That is the honest case for working through the night. Air goes slowly at first, but a tyre driven any distance flat has already destroyed its own inner liner, and nobody can patch that back. Our method does not change with the hour. The tyre comes off the rim, the inside of the casing gets inspected properly, the hole is reamed, plugged and patched to BS AU 159, and the wheel goes back balanced.
Bank holidays are the worst of it. Not here: dispatch runs 365 days a year across Oxfordshire, and the van carries what it needs to finish the job on the spot. It makes no difference whether the car is in Langford Village or Southwold, or which hour of which day it is. A Southwold cul-de-sac or a Graven Hill main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Kingsmere or a narrow bay on the B4030 is usually workable.
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Overnight calls into Oxfordshire are worth planning, so tell us the size off the sidewall and roughly where the damage sits when you ring. The roads are quiet after midnight and a run out to Kingsmere or Langford Village is quicker at that hour than at five in the afternoon.
A nightshift caller found a flat front outside the house and rang rather than waiting. We were there before two, dismounted the tyre and found a roofing screw sitting square in the middle of the tread, comfortably inside the repairable band. Patched, refitted, balanced, gone by three.
Somebody near the Town Centre emptied a can of sealant into a rear tyre before ringing. It had coated the inside of the casing and the sensor with it. The truthful answer was that an hour earlier this had been a repair and now it was not, so a new tyre went on and we explained exactly why instead of pretending otherwise.
A car at Graven Hill had been shedding a few psi a week and two places had shrugged at it. With the tyre off and the casing under a light, the culprit was a hairline split at the valve seat rather than anything in the tread. New valve, no patch needed, rebalanced and back on the car.
We run through the night, all year, because that is when a lot of tyres go down and almost nothing else is open. The figure is agreed with you before any work starts, whatever the clock says, so there is no surprise waiting at the end.
A proper repair is not a bodge. It is done from the inside with the tyre off the rim, so the damage can be seen and the patch seals the liner as well as filling the hole. Done to BS AU 159 it stays in service for the rest of the tread. String plugs pushed in from outside are the ones with a bad name, and rightly.
The central band of the tread. Shoulders and sidewalls flex constantly and no patch survives that, so those are replacements no matter how small the hole looks.
Only long enough to hand over access to the car and the locking key if it has one. Plenty of people go back to bed and settle up by card in the morning once they have seen the finished job.
Half the cars we reach around Bicester carry no spare at all now, just a compressor and a tin. The ones that do usually carry a space saver with a speed limit on the sticker, which is no use for an early start towards Brackley.
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