Three in the morning is close to the only hour these roads are quiet, which makes it a perfectly sensible time to have a tyre off a rim at the kerb. That is part of why we run through the night. A puncture found after everything has closed does not have to wait for a counter to open, and it should not, because a tyre still holding pressure tonight is a tyre that can be mended tonight. Leave it soft and let somebody take it round the gyratory in the morning and the casing tears itself up in a way the nail never managed. The tyre is broken down off its rim, examined from the inside, then reamed and sealed with a bonded patch to BS AU 159, and the wheel returns to the car balanced.
The honest reason we run the repair side overnight is that most punctures are repairable and most people do not know it. So the inspection happens first, properly, with the tyre off the rim on the drive in Walworth or wherever the car is. The wheel comes off in New Kent Road, not on a ramp in Borough. Nothing is towed out of Walworth or Newington; the work finishes there. SE1 takes in the Heygate area and the London Road area, and we work the lot.
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One of the quiet advantages of overnight work in SE1 is that the bus lanes are empty and there is somewhere safe to put a jack. Trying the same job at five in the afternoon on London Road would be a different exercise altogether.
A driver got back from a late shift, heard the hiss while locking up, and rang rather than leaving it. A roofing nail had gone straight in and straight through the tread. Repaired at the kerb inside the hour, with nothing left to sort in the morning.
An external string had been pushed into a tyre weeks earlier and was weeping air again. Once the tyre was off the rim it was obvious the liner had been torn and never repaired. A proper internal patch went over cleaned material and the leak stopped for good.
A pressure alert with no nail, no screw and no obvious mark anywhere on the tread. The leak turned out to be corrosion on the rim where the bead seats, which no amount of staring at the outside would ever have shown. Cleaned up, resealed, sorted.
Yes, every night of the year. Overnight is often the easiest time to work on a car around here, because there is space at the kerb and nothing is trying to get past.
Because the tyre has been off the rim and will not go back in precisely the same position. Skip it and you feel a shimmy through the wheel at speed, which wears the tyre unevenly.
For its purpose, yes. A repair made to the British Standard is permanent and keeps the tyre at its original speed rating. It is not a temporary measure to get you to a shop.
There are limits, and they depend on where the previous repairs sit and how close together they are. We check the inside of the casing before agreeing to a second or third one.
Then you hear it straight away and we quote for a replacement instead. Nothing gets charged for a repair that could not honestly be made.
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