Half past midnight on a side street off Curtain Road, the tyre is down again and there is nothing to see on the tread. This is where soapy water earns its keep. Pump it back up hard, wet the whole wheel with a soap and water mix, and wait. Escaping air makes foam, and foam is the only honest witness in this business. There is an order to it: tread, both shoulders, the valve, the line where rubber meets rim on each face, then the wheel itself.
Guessing wastes a night. People are certain it is a nail and it turns out to be a valve core worth pennies. Once the foam shows where the air goes, the rest is ordinary work: central tread means the tyre comes off, the inside gets inspected, and it is repaired to BS AU 159 and rebalanced. Foam somewhere a repair is not permitted means you hear that at the start rather than the end.
Christmas and New Year are the quietest weeks for garages and among the busiest for us. Driveways in Boundary Estate, side streets and car parks are all normal working ground on a bank holiday. Old tyres leave Boundary Estate, Hoxton and E1 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Curtain Road, or at the kerb in the Rivington Street area. E1 takes in the Rivington Street area and Redchurch Street, and we work the lot.
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The reason to sort a leak tonight rather than at the weekend is the parking. A space you already hold in E2 is worth something, and driving the car anywhere to have a tyre looked at means losing it and then hunting for another one on your return. Deal with it where the car stands and the only thing that changes is the tyre.
A leak slow enough to live with is still a leak, and it always picks a bad morning to speed up. Fifteen minutes with soapy water finds it, and then it is a repair instead of a weekly ritual with a foot pump.
The tread was clean and the driver had already been over it twice. Foam appeared round the base of the valve as soon as the wheel was wet. A new valve, a rebalance, and no puncture was ever involved.
Work finishes late around here and a soft tyre at that hour normally means a taxi and a lost morning. We came to the car instead, found the hole and had the wheel back on before the driver would have reached home.
Yes, because a tyre run persistently soft heats up at the shoulders and quietly wrecks itself from the inside. The repair costs a fraction of the tyre, and the tyre is what you lose by living with it for a month.
Because you will forget, or the machine will be out of order, or it will drop faster one cold night than it did the week before. A leak found and closed is off your list. A leak managed is a job you keep doing.
Then it comes off the rim and gets looked at properly from the inside, valve out, and we find it there instead. Nothing about a leak is mysterious once you can see both faces of the tyre.
A found and repaired puncture is usually forty minutes or so from arriving to you having the wheel torqued back on. Hunting a stubborn leak adds time at the start, not at the end.
Only the lighting. Same equipment, same standard of repair, same inspection of the inside of the casing. If a tyre is not repairable at two in the morning it would not have been repairable at two in the afternoon either.
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