Leaving it until morning is the expensive choice, not the cautious one. A tyre with a nail in it at eleven at night is nearly always a tyre that can still be saved. The same tyre after a soft, slow descent of Highgate Hill at half past seven, weight piling onto it under braking the whole way down, has usually had its inner liner chewed apart, and by then nobody can mend it.
Which is why we work through the night. The wheel comes off, the bead is broken and the casing is turned inside out so the liner can be seen, because that is where the evidence actually is. Where the injury sits within the repairable part of the tread it gets cleaned out and sealed from behind, plug and patch together, to BS AU 159, then the wheel is balanced and torqued back on. Where it does not, you are told and a replacement goes on instead. At three in the morning the streets by Waterlow Park are empty, which makes the whole thing easier than it would be in daylight.
An overnight repair follows exactly the same standard as a daytime one, and it is worth being clear about that. Where the damage falls outside the standard you get told at that hour and a replacement goes on from the van, on the drive in Highgate Village or wherever the car is. Pressures set before we leave Fitzroy Park, and the same on Hampstead Lane. An Archway driveway is our workshop, and so is a Dartmouth Park kerb. Dartmouth Park, Hampstead Heath and the streets around Fitzroy Park are minutes apart.
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The gradients are what make a night callout worth it in Highgate. A soft tyre nursed down Highgate Hill, or dragged up the pull from Archway, absorbs far more abuse than the same tyre would on the flat, and the descent is normally what finishes it. Sorting the puncture where the car stands, at whatever hour, is what keeps the casing intact.
A driver home from a late shift saw the tyre sitting down on the rim and rang rather than chancing it in the morning. Twenty five minutes later the wheel was off. The nail had gone in cleanly, dead centre of the tread, and everything was finished and balanced before one o'clock.
Staples, screws and sharp grit come off verges and car park edges constantly. Whatever went in near Hampstead Heath was unnoticed until the pressure warning lit up. Catching it that early meant the inside of the casing was untouched and the repair was completely routine.
A tyre that will not take air from a pump usually has more wrong with it than a pinhole in the tread. Once that one was off the rim the trouble turned out to be a perished valve rather than the tyre at all. Different remedy, same principle: nobody diagnoses that with the tyre still mounted.
All night, every day of the year. Working in N6 at that hour is often simpler than working there at noon, because the parked cars have thinned out and nobody is trying to squeeze past.
Most of a repair is quiet handwork and the equipment is less dramatic than people picture. On the conservation-area streets near the Village we keep it down and get on with it.
Permanent, provided it is worked from the inside and finished to BS AU 159. Plug and patch together seal the hole and the liner as one, which is why the pressure then holds for the rest of the tyre's life.
Worth having looked at. Slow punctures announce themselves through the dashboard days before anything is visible, and the sensor in the valve can be the culprit instead. Both get checked once the tyre is off the rim.
It depends what it has been through. A run-flat driven on while deflated is often damaged internally while looking perfect from outside, and that call gets made after the tyre comes off, never before.
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