The warning light is not a puncture detector. Most systems watch the pressure in each wheel through a sensor strapped to the inside of the rim, and they speak up once one has fallen by a set percentage. By then the tyre has usually been losing air for days. Some cars do it differently and work the difference out from the wheel speeds, which means a slow loss on all four can pass unnoticed entirely.
The reason that matters at two in the morning is that the sensor is also the part most easily wrecked by a rushed repair. It sits on the valve, inside the tyre, and the tyre has to come off the rim to reach the damage properly. Done carefully, the sensor is released before the bead is broken, the casing is inspected, the hole is reamed, plugged and patched to BS AU 159 and the sensor goes back with a fresh valve seal. Done with a machine in a hurry, it snaps, and you buy a sensor as well as a repair. Better to take the extra few minutes at the kerb on Great Eastern Street than hand you a second bill.
Round-the-clock only means something if the van carries enough to finish. Ours carries the fitting gear, the balancer, valves, lighting and stock in the common sizes, at every hour right across Greater London. From the Bunhill Fields area to Moorfields, any night of the year. Level in the Bunhill Fields area, sloping in St Luke's: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Moorfields or City Road is worth flagging. EC1V takes in City Road and the Featherstone Street area, and we work the lot.
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There is no good hour to have a puncture around the Old Street roundabout, but three in the morning is the least bad one, because the traffic that makes this junction impossible has finally stopped. The repair is the standard one whenever it happens, and the wheel goes back on the car balanced and torqued rather than left for somebody else to finish.
A driver near Moorfields had a warning on the dash and a tyre that looked perfectly normal. It was eleven psi down with a nail in it. Caught before it flattened, so it was repaired rather than replaced.
A car parked off City Road had a puncture right beside the valve. The sensor came out intact, the casing was clean and the patch went on the inside as normal.
Somebody leaving the office at one in the morning found the front nearside soft. Repaired in the car park under our own lighting, balanced, and driven home on the same tyre.
No, that is temperature. Pressure rises as the tyre warms and can climb back over the threshold while the leak is still there. A light that comes and goes is one worth taking seriously.
Not if the tyre comes off the rim properly, which is what happens here. The sensor is released before the bead is broken and refitted with a new seal afterwards.
It is the same sequence at three in the morning as at three in the afternoon: off the rim, inside inspected, reamed, plugged, patched, rebalanced. Only the traffic is different.
Yes, at any hour. The junction is unbearable in the day and empty at night, which is one of the few things working in your favour.
It is on a plate in the driver's door shut, usually with a laden figure alongside the normal one. The pressures come off that rather than off whatever the tyre happens to say.
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