Work out what a night recovery actually involves before you ring one. A truck comes out and charges for coming out. It takes the car to a garage that is shut, so the car sits there until morning. You still have to get home from wherever the truck leaves you, you still have to pay for the tyre when the garage opens, and then you have to go back and collect the car.
That is four separate arrangements and most of a working day, and at the end of it you have bought exactly one tyre. Set against that, a mobile call at three in the morning buys the same repair or the same replacement it would buy at three in the afternoon, and the car finishes the night on its own four wheels where it started. No recovery leg, no storage, no lift to arrange, no second journey. Nights run the same as days here, all year, so the hour on the clock changes our route planning and nothing else about the job.
A lot of the calls that come in at eleven at night start with the phrase "I only noticed when I got home". The nail went in hours earlier, the tyre held most of its air, and it is only under a streetlight in Maida Vale that it looks obviously flat. Level in Elgin Avenue, sloping in Warwick Avenue: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Sutherland Avenue or Maida Hill is worth flagging. A W9 address in Maida Vale and one in Little Venice are the same round.
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Garages in this corner of Westminster keep ordinary hours, and the streets do not become any easier to park in overnight. A car left flat in a bay off Warwick Avenue at midnight is still flat at eight, and by then the morning has plans of its own. Dealing with it while it is dark and quiet is generally the least disruptive use of the night.
A driver heading up towards Kilburn felt the car pull and stopped where there was room to get clear. Nothing was going to open for hours. The puncture sat in the tread, it was repaired to standard where the car had halted, and no truck was involved at any point.
A flat discovered at half past five in a residents' bay is not a garage problem, because no garage is awake to have it. We came out to Elgin Avenue while it was still dark, fitted the replacement, and the owner made the start of the shift.
The tyre had been losing air for days and picked the one weekend when everything local was closed to finish. It turned out to be the valve stem rather than anything in the tread, so a new stem and a rebalance settled it instead of a new tyre.
It is simpler for about an hour. After that you have a car at a closed garage, a way home to arrange, a tyre still to buy and a trip back to fetch it. Coming to the car skips all four.
The phone is covered right round the clock, every day of the year. London is quieter to drive at that hour, so reaching you overnight is usually the easy part of the job.
No. Whatever the tyre needs is what happens, whether that is a proper internal repair or a replacement carried aboard. Nothing is left over for somebody else to finish in the morning.
Yes. The fitter brings his own lighting and works in the space the car already occupies, so nothing has to be moved and the bay is not lost while it happens.
It is rarely worth it. Every mile on a soft tyre grinds the inner liner against the rim and turns a tyre that could have been saved into one that cannot be.
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