A tyre that was fine at six in the evening and flat at seven the next morning has not usually failed overnight. It has been leaking for days. What changes while the car sits is that nothing is topping it up any more. Driving warms a tyre and raises its pressure, which is enough to mask a small loss, and it flexes the rubber so a nail seated in the tread seals against its own hole. Park up and both effects stop.
Cold makes it worse again. Air contracts as the temperature falls, so a still night takes a measurable amount out of a tyre with no leak at all, and a great deal more out of one that has. That is why morning flats cluster in the colder half of the year, and why a car living outside on a street in Canbury shows it sooner than one kept in a garage. The useful part of working around the clock is that the car does not have to sit there getting worse until somebody opens. If you find it at half five before a shift, that is a perfectly normal time to ring.
Working at night is easier in one respect: the roads are quiet. A job on Clarence Street that would be awkward at five in the afternoon is straightforward at two in the morning. On a drive in Norbiton, in a car park or at the kerb, whichever the car is in. Tight in Kingston town centre, easy in Norbiton: neither stops the job. Level in Canbury, sloping in Hampton Wick: we set the car straight first. KT1 takes in Coombe and Kingston Hill, and we work the lot.
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Cars in this part of the borough mostly live outside, in permit bays around Canbury or on terraced streets where a driveway counts as a luxury. That means a full night of cold on every tyre and a morning discovery rather than a roadside drama. It is a better way to find a puncture, because a tyre that has not been driven soft stands a far higher chance of being repairable.
The car has not moved, which is the good news, because a tyre that has been standing rather than driven soft is very often still repairable. The work happens at the kerb where it sits, so nobody has to find somewhere that opens early or arrange a lift into work at short notice.
Parking on the rise towards Kingston Hill means putting a jack under a car that would quite like to roll. Chocks go in first and the jack goes to the manufacturer's lifting point rather than the nearest convenient bit of sill. It costs a minute and it saves a bent floorpan.
Drivers often reinflate in the morning, find it holding all day and conclude the problem cured itself. Heat from driving did that, not healing. It will be down again by the next morning, and every one of those cycles works the leak a fraction wider than before.
Only if the alternative is genuinely worse. Every mile driven soft eats into whether the tyre can be saved, and the run into the town centre is stop and start, which is the hardest sort of mile for it. If we can reach you first, leave it alone.
Because the system is reporting a real drop. Air contracts as it cools, and a tyre set correctly in mild weather genuinely is low on a frosty morning. A light that stays on after the car has warmed through is telling you about a leak rather than the forecast.
Any hour at all, and early mornings are a routine part of the week for us. Give us the address in KT1 or KT2 along with the time you have to be away, and you get a straight answer about whether it can be done.
Not necessarily, so long as we can identify the car and get at the wheel. Plenty of driveway jobs around Norbiton happen while the owner is indoors or already gone. Payment goes through by card once the work is finished and the wheel is torqued up.
Occasionally, and a valve core loosened by hand leaves no mark behind. With the tyre off the rim we can see whether there is an object in the tread, damage at the bead, or nothing at all, and a valve that will not hold is quick to put right.
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