The aerosol that comes in place of a spare is worth understanding before you ever need it. It pumps a latex sealant into the tyre through the valve and it will get a car moving again, which is genuinely useful if you are somewhere you should not be standing about. What it also does is coat the entire inside of the casing in a film that nothing will bond to, and it can foul the pressure sensor on the way past. After that a proper patch has nothing clean to stick to, and a tyre that was repairable has become a purchase.
So the argument for ringing at two in the morning rather than reaching for the can is a financial one. A car parked on a bay off Belgrave Road at midnight is in no danger and neither are you. The fitter comes out, takes the tyre off the rim, checks the casing from the inside and, if it is clean, reams the hole and fits a combined plug and patch to BS AU 159, then rebalances the wheel. The tyre stays yours. If you have already used the can, say so on the phone, because it changes what the fitter arrives expecting to deal with.
Punctures do not keep opening hours. A screw picked up on Lupus Street at eleven at night is still a screw at six the next morning, only by then you are late as well. We are out on Belgrave Road at 2am and in Churchill Gardens at 2pm. The Lupus Street phone and the Belgrave Road phone ring the same fitter, any hour. The SW1V postcode and a street in Warwick Square: that is enough.
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A car packed into a controlled bay off Grosvenor Road at midnight is not going anywhere until you move it, which makes it the ideal candidate for a proper repair rather than a can of foam. Nothing about the work changes for the hour. The tyre still comes off the rim, the casing is still read from the inside, and the wheel still goes back on balanced.
A driver near Dolphin Square had done the sensible looking thing and used the sealant. The liner was coated right around and no patch would have held. The tyre was replaced.
A soft tyre on Warwick Square at half past midnight, with the car going nowhere until morning anyway. Repaired properly on the bay and back on the road for a fraction of a new tyre.
A car in SW1V had a pressure sensor fouled by sealant used weeks earlier. It had been reading nonsense ever since and nobody had connected the two.
If you are somewhere genuinely unsafe, yes, without hesitating. If the car is parked on a residential street with nowhere to be until morning, ringing costs you far less.
It coats the inner liner in a film, and a patch has to bond to clean rubber. Cleaning it off completely is rarely possible.
It can. The sealant goes in through the valve, which is exactly where the sensor sits, and it does not always come off.
Every hour of every day. The streets here are far easier to work in at two in the morning than at two in the afternoon.
Not always. Tell us when you ring, and the fitter will look at the state of the liner and give you a straight answer either way.
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