The inside of a tyre records everything that has ever been done to it. Take one off the rim at midnight and you can read the history: the polished ring where it has sat against the rim, the grey scuffing that says it has been run flat at some point, and now and then a rubber string poking through the liner where somebody jammed a plug in from the outside without ever looking inside.
That last one is why the bead gets broken rather than the tread poked at. An external plug seals the hole and leaves the steel belt around it open to water, and it does nothing about what the object did to the casing on its way in. A proper repair reams the hole out clean, fits a combined plug and patch from the inside, and seals the liner over the top so nothing can wick in. It takes longer than a string. It is also the only version that meets BS AU 159, and it is the same job at two in the afternoon or two in the morning outside a house in Jericho.
The honest reason we run the repair side overnight is that most punctures are repairable and most people do not know it. So the inspection happens first, properly, with the tyre off the rim on the drive in Headington or wherever the car is. We are out on the A40 at 2am and in Summertown at 2pm. The Iffley phone and the Cowley phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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Getting across Oxford at eight in the morning on a soft tyre is a worse idea than getting up to meet a fitter at two. The repair is the same either way and the tyre is far more likely to survive the earlier one. The work happens at the kerb in Jericho, on a drive in Iffley or in a lay-by off the A40, with the machine and the lighting on the van.
A tyre off a car in Headington had been plugged from the outside by somebody else. The liner was torn around it and the belt had already begun to rust. It could not be repaired a second time.
A driver back from Witney found a nail after eleven at night. Bead broken, inside checked, hole reamed and patched, wheel balanced, and the car ready for the morning.
A car in Summertown used twice a week had been quietly losing air for a fortnight. The casing was still sound because nobody had ever driven it properly flat.
Not to the standard. It seals the hole and leaves the belt exposed inside, so water gets in and the tyre fails later from a cause nobody connects back to the plug.
Because the only place you can see whether the casing has been damaged is the inside. A repair decided from the tread is a guess with rubber in it.
If the alternative is driving on it in the morning, yes. The damage that turns a repair into a new tyre happens on the road, not on the driveway overnight.
Yes, and out towards Abingdon and Bicester as well. Give a postcode and the nearest junction and the fitter will find you.
It is permanent. A plug and patch done to BS AU 159 lasts the life of the tyre, which is the reason nothing else is used.
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