Do not pull the nail out. It is everybody's first instinct when a screw head turns up in the tread, and it is the wrong one. A nail that went in straight is plugging the hole it made, because the rubber has closed round the shank, and that is the only reason the tyre is going down over days instead of seconds. Take it out at the roadside and you turn a tyre you could still creep along on into one that is flat before you have found your phone.
So leave it where it is and ring instead. This repair cannot be done from the outside. The tyre comes off the rim, the inside of the casing is read for chafing and heat marks, the hole is reamed back to clean rubber, and a combined stem and patch goes in from within to the BS AU 159 standard before the wheel is balanced again. A string plug jabbed in from the outside is not a repair to that standard. The point of a call at two in the morning is that the tyre is still repairable at two in the morning.
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 Mereside or wherever the car is. The Mereside phone and the Fountain Lane phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Pratt Street, midday in Brook Dam Lane, the same call either way.
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The trouble with a puncture in Soham is not the puncture, it is the distance. Workshops with a tyre machine are over in Ely or Newmarket, so the ordinary answer means limping there on a soft tyre along a fast single carriageway, or crawling round the back lanes on it instead. Both do more harm to the casing than the nail did. We bring the machine to the car, at whatever hour it happened.
You catch it under a torch when you get home and the tyre is still up. That is the best possible moment to deal with it, because nothing has been driven on soft yet and the casing is untouched.
A tyre that wants air every few days will not mend itself, and the commuter parking around Station Road is a perfectly workable place to take a wheel off and find out what is in it.
Farm traffic leaves flint and stone on the lanes out towards Burwell, and what that puts into a tyre is often small enough to seal itself for a fortnight before it lets go.
About half an hour for a single puncture done properly, most of which is the tyre coming off the rim and going back on. Balancing adds a few minutes to that. Nobody is waiting for a bay to become free.
Every time. There is no other way to reach the inside face, and the patch has to be bonded on from in there. The inside is also where you learn whether a tyre has been run soft, which changes the answer entirely.
Often yes, provided both sit inside the central tread area and neither overlaps the other. Two patches close together weaken one stretch of casing, and in that case we will tell you the tyre has had its lot.
Only to get clear of somewhere dangerous. It coats the inside of the tyre in a mess that has to be cleaned out before any proper repair, and it can finish off the pressure sensor in the wheel, which costs more than the tyre did.
Yes, every night of the year. These roads are empty at three in the morning, which is precisely when being stuck on one is worst, and a puncture found at that hour is usually in better shape than the same puncture found at eight.
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