There are two ways to stop a tyre losing air, and only one of them counts as a repair. The quick way is done from the outside without removing anything: a sticky rope pushed into the hole, or a can of foam emptied through the valve. Neither lets anybody see the inside of the casing, which is where the real damage from a nail shows up, and the foam usually ruins the pressure sensor as a bonus.
The proper way takes the wheel off the car and the tyre off the rim. Somebody looks at the inner liner properly, opens the hole back to sound rubber, bonds a plug and a patch across it on the inside to BS AU 159, and puts the wheel back balanced. That is what we do at three in the morning on a street off Barking Road, at the same standard as at three in the afternoon. The reason for the odd hour is simple: tyres do not stay repairable indefinitely, and the ones that get driven on tomorrow morning are the ones that end up in the bin.
Most of the punctures we repair out of hours were picked up hours earlier and only noticed on the way to bed. A nail picked up on the A124 does not deflate to a timetable. The the Central Park area phone and the High Street North phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in the Beckton Road area, midday in Manor Park, the same call either way. E6 takes in Manor Park and Wall End, and we work the lot.
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This is one of the most densely parked parts of London and the streets off High Street North are full day and night, which is exactly why a night visit works well here. There is more room to get the van alongside your car at two in the morning than there ever is at two in the afternoon.
Found soft on getting home from a late finish, and the owner rang rather than gambling on it holding until Saturday. Nobody had rolled it along the road while it was down, which is what saved it. Off the rim, inspected, patched, balanced, and the car was ready before anybody else in the street was awake.
The A117 carries a lot of heavy traffic and the stuff that falls off it ends up in tyres. This one had picked up a fat screw with a broad thread. Screws need more careful reaming than nails do, since the hole they leave is wider and rougher inside.
The car is how he earns, so a tyre problem at midnight is a wage problem at six. Repairing it that night rather than in the morning meant he started on time on his own tyre instead of buying a new one he did not need.
Because the damage you can see from outside is only half the story. Nails move around inside and score the liner, and if that has happened no patch will hold. You cannot check it any other way.
Best not. It smears itself across the liner so a patch cannot bond, and it commonly wrecks the pressure sensor. A repairable tyre often becomes a scrap one the moment that can is used.
Yes, without exception, right the way through the year. Roads through East Ham are far quieter on those days, so response times are usually better than on a normal weekday.
If you are topping it up more than once a week, something is in it. Get it looked at while it is still holding pressure rather than after it has run flat.
A repair done to the British standard in the correct part of the tread is entirely acceptable. The ones that fail tests are external plugs and bodges in places that should never have been repaired.
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