Low profile tyres make a repair fussier rather than impossible, and it is worth knowing why. A short stiff sidewall does not want to come away from the rim, so breaking the bead takes more force, and the wheels these tyres sit on are usually large diameter and expensively finished. Do that carelessly with a machine and you mark the rim lip, which is a fine way to turn a repair into an argument. It takes protective work and a bit of patience, and it is entirely doable at the kerb.
The other question people ask is whether repairing a high performance tyre costs it its speed rating. Done properly, to BS AU 159, with the hole reamed and a combined plug and patch fitted from the inside, it does not. What loses a tyre its rating is a bodged external plug or damage the repair cannot address. So a puncture in a big wheeled car parked on the A3 side of Putney at two in the morning gets the same permanent repair as anything else, with the wheel rebalanced afterwards because a large diameter rim is far less forgiving of a few grams than a small one.
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 Roehampton to Putney Heath, any night of the year. The wheel comes off in Roehampton, not on a ramp in Wimbledon. Pressures set before we leave Roehampton, and the same on the South Circular. The SW15 postcode and a street in Roehampton: that is enough.
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A lot of the cars parked around Putney sit on large, expensive wheels with very little sidewall, and that changes how carefully a tyre has to come off the rim rather than whether it can be repaired. The work happens at the kerb with the rim protected and the wheel balanced properly afterwards, at whatever hour the puncture turned up.
A twenty inch wheel on a car near Putney High Street needed the bead broken without marking the lip. Slower work, no marks, and the tyre was repaired properly.
A driver near Roehampton assumed a repair would downgrade a performance tyre. Done to the standard, it keeps its rating and its full remaining life.
A large diameter wheel off a car in East Putney needed proper weighting after the repair. On a rim that size a small imbalance is felt at far lower speeds.
Yes, under the same rules as any other tyre. The stiff sidewall just makes getting it off the rim more of a job, which is a question of care rather than of possibility.
Not with the bead broken properly and the rim protected. It is the main reason this work takes longer on a big wheel than a small one.
Not when it is done to BS AU 159 from the inside. What ruins a tyre's rating is a bad external plug or damage that no repair could have fixed.
Because the same few grams sit further from the centre, so the force it throws is greater. Big rims show up a sloppy balance at ordinary speeds.
Every night of the year. The streets around Putney High Street are considerably easier to work in at two in the morning.
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