People assume a puncture found late at night is one that has to wait until morning, and it is exactly the wrong way round. Nothing about a damaged tyre improves while it sits there. What decides whether you buy a repair or a replacement is how far the car travels while the pressure is low, and the morning is when that travelling happens: down the A23, round the one-way system, stationary in the queue at West Croydon. A tyre that was perfectly saveable at half eleven is often scrap by nine. So the sensible sequence is to have it mended where it stands. Off comes the tyre, the inner surface gets read properly, the puncture channel is cleaned out and a plug and patch unit is bonded permanently in place, to the BS AU 159 standard. Only then does the balanced wheel go back on.
The useful thing about an overnight repair is what it saves you the next morning. We do the second, across CR0, 24 hours a day and every day of the year. Driveways in Broad Green, side streets and supermarket car parks are all normal working ground at three in the morning. Old tyres leave Waddon, Broad Green and CR0 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Broad Green, or at the kerb in Addiscombe. CR0 takes in Addiscombe and South End, and we work the lot.
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Stop-start driving between Broad Green and the town centre keeps tyres hot and soft, which is exactly the condition in which they pick up screws and swallow them whole. Most CR0 night calls are simple tread punctures, and simple tread punctures repair beautifully so long as the car has not done a few miles on them first.
You come out at six and one corner is on the floor. The car is going nowhere useful, and driving it to a fitting bay in Sutton on that tyre would finish it off. We come to the bay, do the repair beside the car, and you drive home on the same tyre you arrived on.
A sharp-edged hole can pinch the tyre against the rim hard enough to open a small leak at the bead without leaving a mark anyone would notice. Mitcham Road produces a steady supply of these. Off the wheel and in water, the bubbles show where the trouble is in about ten seconds.
When a tyre loses air with no nail in sight, the usual suspects are the valve, corrosion where the tyre seals against the rim, or a tiny piece of wire that has closed up behind itself. All three are findable once the tyre is separated from the wheel, and all three are quick.
Identical work, same standard, same balance afterwards. The only difference is that at two in the morning the tyre is usually still worth repairing.
Not long once we are with you. Most of the elapsed time is travel, and across Croydon that usually sits somewhere in the 30 to 60 minutes bracket.
Every time. It is the only way to see the inner liner, and the inner liner is where you find out whether the tyre has been driven on and quietly destroyed. Anyone repairing from the outside is guessing.
Yes, within limits. The repairs must be separated by enough distance and none may sit outside the permitted band. Once they start crowding each other we will tell you the casing has had enough.
Not necessarily. It can be temperature, a slow valve leak or a sensor with a flat battery. It does mean something has changed, so it is worth checking rather than resetting and forgetting.
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