There is a British Standard covering puncture repair, BS AU 159, and it is specific about what may be mended and how. The tyre has to leave the rim. The inside of the casing has to be examined for damage the object did on its way through. The hole is reamed back to clean material, filled, and sealed with a patch bonded to the inner liner. Only the central strip of tread qualifies for any of it. The neat-looking strings sold in roadside kits sit outside the standard altogether.
Going through all of that at three in the morning is not showing off. It is the only reason the tyre survives. A casing that is repairable when the warning light appears near Junction 13 may well be scrap by the time somebody has driven it soft towards Staines hunting for an open counter. We work every night of the year across Egham Town, Thorpe, Egham Hythe and the lanes out past Virginia Water, and the wheel is rebalanced before it goes back on so there is no tremble through the wheel at speed on the bypass.
Away from home and a flat overnight is the worst combination, because you have no idea who to ring. A hotel car park, a relative's street, a road you have never driven before, Englefield Green or anywhere else round Egham. The wheel comes off in Virginia Water, not on a ramp in Staines. Nothing is towed out of Englefield Green or Thorpe; the work finishes there.
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Egham traffic runs at two speeds: crawling around the town roads, then straight onto fast dual carriageway. A tyre losing air copes with the first and fails at the second, which is why we would rather come out at an awkward hour than have you drive on it.
A driver noticed the pressure dropping on the way back and stopped rather than pressing on. A flint had gone in cleanly, well within the repairable band. Tyre off the rim, casing checked, patched from the inside and balanced, all done at the roadside before midnight.
An early start and a tyre found soft on the drive with no time to sort anything in daylight. We came out in the dark, did the job properly instead of topping it up and hoping, and the car left on time with a tyre that had not lost a thing.
A rear tyre picking up debris from a resurfaced stretch had taken two objects, one in the tread band and one nearer the shoulder. The first was repairable and the second was not, so the tyre was replaced. Finding the second one is the reason the casing gets inspected inside.
Because half the story is on the inside. An object can tear the liner or damage a belt on its way in, and none of that is visible with the tyre still seated. Repairing blind is how you end up doing the job twice.
It gets you moving in an emergency and that is about all. It coats the inside of the casing, often ruins the pressure sensor, and frequently turns a repairable tyre into a scrap one. We would rather come to you.
Yes, all night and all year. The point of the hour is not the drama; it is that the tyre is still repairable now and may not be after a morning of being driven flat.
A repair made to BS AU 159 is permanent and rated for the speed the tyre was rated for. It is not a get-you-home measure, and we would not offer it if it were.
Then we say so and price a replacement instead. That decision gets made with the tyre off the wheel and the evidence in front of you, not guessed at from the outside.
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