A slow puncture is at its most honest overnight. Drive a car and the tyre warms, the air inside expands, and the pressure holds up well enough that a small leak stays hidden behind it. Park it for eight hours in the cold and everything contracts, the leak carries on working the whole time with nothing being put back, and the tyre you left looking fine is flat on the drive at six in the morning.
Which is why so many of these calls arrive at the start of a day rather than during one. The car has not developed a fault overnight. It picked something up yesterday and the standing time simply let it finish the job. There is no advantage in waiting for a garage to open either, because a tyre already down on the rim gets worse every hour it sits there and worse again the moment it is driven. Nights and early mornings run on the same footing as afternoons, so the discovery and the fix do not have to sit a working day apart.
The phone being answered is the first hurdle, and a surprising number of services fall at it. At 3am you want a person who can price the job, tell you what the van carries and say when it will arrive, rather than a form and a promise of a callback. A West End cul-de-sac or an Eastwood main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Estover or a narrow bay on the B1101 is usually workable.
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Being a fair drive from the nearest garage matters most at six in the morning, when the tyre is flat, the day has already started and nothing has opened yet. Around here the alternative to a callout is not a short detour, it is losing the whole morning. We come to the house instead, from Estover across to West End, and the car leaves for work rather than being left behind.
Fine the evening before, down on the rim by morning. The nail had gone in somewhere the previous day and the eight hours standing still did the rest. Repaired at the house to standard before the school run rather than being left until after it.
A driver had got into the habit of pumping one tyre before setting off and thought little of it. That is a leak, not a quirk. Off the rim there was a thorn in the tread, and a straightforward repair had been left long enough to nearly stop being one.
A tyre that had been going down slowly for days chose the end of a bank holiday weekend to give up entirely. Waiting until Tuesday meant three days of a car standing useless on a drive, so it was dealt with that night where it was parked.
Because driving warms the air inside and props the pressure up. Standing overnight lets it cool and contract while the leak carries on regardless, so a slow puncture declares itself when the car has been still longest.
You can, but every trip on low pressure works the sidewall against the rim and heats the casing up. A puncture that would have taken a plug and patch becomes a tyre that cannot be repaired at all.
Every night and every bank holiday, all year. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes, and the Fens are quiet after dark, so the hour rarely turns out to be the thing that slows us down.
Then a replacement goes on during the same visit. The fitter arrives carrying stock as well as tools precisely so that an early start does not end with the car still off the road.
Somewhere safe to work with room to jack it, which a driveway, a yard or a quiet street all provide. Lighting comes with us, so darkness is not an obstacle to any of it.
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