Sunday evening, the light going, and there is a perfectly good spare in the boot. The jack is under the floor with the brace beside it and the whole thing ought to be a short job. Then the wheel does not come off. Not the nuts, the wheel. Every nut is out and the thing still sits there as though it had been welded on, and the harder you pull the less interested it becomes.
Corrosion between the hub face and the back of the wheel causes that. Aluminium against steel, damp, and a couple of years without the wheel being disturbed, and the two surfaces bond together. In daylight, on a level drive, with a bit of knowledge, it comes free. On a dark verge with a car up on a scissor jack it is genuinely dangerous, because the shove that frees a stuck wheel is exactly the shove that takes a car off its jack. This is where most people stop and ring somebody, and a Sunday is no reason to sit in the car until Monday morning.
The night before an MOT is a popular time to find a puncture. We come out at that hour to Garden Square or wherever the car is parked, take the wheel off, inspect the casing from the inside and fit a proper internal plug-patch where the damage permits. The wheel comes off in Grange, not on a ramp in Baldock. Nothing is towed out of Norton or Pixmore; the work finishes there.
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Letchworth is quiet after dark and that cuts both ways. There is nobody passing to help on a residential road, and the nearest open garage is not a short walk. A car stopped near Junction 9, or standing on a drive with the spare half fitted, is an ordinary overnight call for us whatever the day of the week happens to be.
Nuts out, wheel solid. We came out that evening, freed it without hammering the alloy face and fitted the proper tyre rather than the spare. The car was ready for the morning and the wheel in the boot stayed where it was.
A driver had got as far as loosening the nuts before realising there was no safe way to lift the car where it stood. We attended with proper jacking equipment and worked from the kerb side rather than the traffic side of the car.
A shift worker found the flat on the way out of the door. The spare was fine, the wheel was not coming off in the dark, and the job was done in the time arranging a taxi would have taken. Nights are ordinary work for us.
We do. The service runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and bank holidays are not an exception to it. Whoever you speak to at three is arranging a fitter, not taking a message for the morning.
Carefully, and without a hammer on the alloy face. The car is supported properly first, the nuts go back on loose so nothing can drop, and the wheel is worked free with controlled pressure rather than force applied where it would crack something.
Please stop. A car on a scissor jack with somebody heaving at a wheel is how people get hurt, and it is far worse in the dark on a slope. Put the nuts back finger tight, get out of the road and wait for us.
That changes what you should do afterwards rather than what we do. A space saver limits your speed and your distance and is only meant to get you home. We would sooner fit the correct tyre and let you drive normally again.
Identical. Same equipment, same lighting brought along with us, same inspection and the same balance on the wheel before you drive away. The hour changes the traffic and it changes nothing else at all.
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