There is a particular kind of puncture that comes from streets like these, and it is not the motorway nail. It is a staple, a tack or a shard of glass picked up at walking pace off Portobello Road, sitting almost upright in the tread with barely anything showing. At low speed it goes in cleanly and often does not reach the belt at all, which is why the tyre holds pressure for days and then starts quietly losing four or five psi overnight.
That slow version is the one worth catching at night rather than in the morning. While there is still air in the tyre the walls are held apart and the casing stays undamaged, so the hole can be reamed, plugged and patched properly and the tyre keeps its full life. Drive it flat down Ladbroke Grove first and the inside is ruined whatever the original damage was. The fitter works at the kerb under his own lighting, takes the tyre off the rim, reads the inside of the casing where the truth actually is, and rebalances the wheel before it goes back on.
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 Pembridge that it looks obviously flat. Tight in Pembridge, easy in Lansdowne: neither stops the job. Level in Ladbroke Grove, sloping in Portobello Road: we set the car straight first.
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The streets around Notting Hill Gate are difficult to work on in daylight and straightforward at three in the morning, which is one of the few advantages of a puncture at an awkward time. Nothing about the repair changes for the hour: the tyre still comes off the rim, the casing is still inspected from the inside, and the wheel is still balanced before you drive on it.
Something small and sharp went in near Portobello Road and stayed there. The tyre was eight psi down by the following weekend. It had never reached the belt, so it was patched from the inside and stayed on the car.
A resident found a soft front tyre while shuffling the car for the morning. Dealing with it that night meant no drive on the flat, so the repair was still a repair rather than a purchase.
A car near Lansdowne had been getting a squirt from a foot pump every few days. The casing had already begun to chafe on the inside. A fortnight later it would have been a new tyre.
Yes, because it will not get better and because a tyre that keeps dropping to low pressure damages itself. The repair is small now and a new tyre later.
No, and we would rather you did not either. It coats the inside of the casing so nothing will bond to it, and it can wreck a pressure sensor while it is at it. Say if you have already used some, so the fitter arrives expecting it.
It is quieter than most people expect. A jack, a machine on the van and hand tools. Nobody along Kensington Park Road has come out to complain yet.
It gets managed every night. Give the street and roughly where the car sits and the fitter sorts the rest, including on the tighter Pembridge turnings.
Any hour, all year. Two in the morning is often the easiest time to work around here, because the road is finally empty.
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