Cold weather generates a lot of false alarms. Air pressure falls as temperature falls, roughly one psi for every five or six degrees, so a tyre set correctly on a mild October afternoon can be several psi down on a hard frost in January without anything being wrong with it at all. That is why warning lights cluster on the first genuinely cold morning of the year and why half the people who see one have no leak whatsoever.
The trouble is that the other half do, and telling them apart from the driveway is not possible. What separates them is time: a temperature drop is a one off, so the pressure comes back as the day warms, while a puncture keeps going down regardless. So the sensible thing on a cold night is to set the pressures properly and see, and if it is still dropping the following morning the tyre comes off the rim and the leak gets found. That happens at whatever hour suits, on a drive off Engayne Avenue or in a yard near the town centre, with the lighting and the machine on the van.
The morning is what an overnight repair actually buys you. We do the third, right across Bedfordshire, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. From Town Centre to The Lodge, at whatever hour the call lands. The Girtford streets, The Lodge and anything on the A1 are one job to us. Same tools in Sunderland Road as in Engayne Avenue, same on every call. Valve in Town Centre, balance in Beeston, pressures before we go.
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Winter around here produces a run of calls that turn out to be nothing more than cold air, and a run that turn out to be nails picked up on the verges. Setting the pressures properly and looking again the next day separates them for free. When it is the second kind, the repair happens where the car is standing, at whatever hour, and the tyre keeps its full life.
A car near Beeston lit up its warning on the coldest morning of the winter. All four tyres were simply cold and low, and nothing was leaking.
A driver in Girtford topped up on a cold night and found the same tyre low again the next day. That is a leak rather than the weather, and it was a nail.
Pressures set from the door plate on a car in Sandy and rechecked the following evening. One tyre had held and one had not, which answered it.
Because air contracts. Roughly one psi is lost for every five or six degrees the temperature falls, so a correctly set tyre can trip the warning on a frosty morning.
Set the pressures properly and check again the next day. Cold is a one off and comes back with the temperature. A leak keeps going down.
No. Set them to the figure on the door plate, ideally when the tyres are cold, and let the system do its job.
Every night, across Sandy and out towards Biggleswade and St Neots. Nights on these roads are quiet and we are usually with you quickly.
The tyre comes off the rim, the casing is inspected from the inside, and if it is repairable the hole is reamed, plugged and patched to BS AU 159.
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