There is one advantage to a puncture at two in the morning here, and it is that the road has finally emptied. The A3 Clapham Road at that hour has space to get a jack down, and the crossroads is not pushing four lanes of traffic past your elbow. We would rather work on a quiet street at three than a busy one at nine, and so would you.
The part of the job nobody watches is the last two minutes. Every nut goes back on with a torque wrench, set to the figure the manufacturer specified for that car. That figure exists for a reason. Run them up with an air gun instead and you land somewhere between not enough and far too much. Not enough and the nuts work loose. Far too much and you distort the disc where it bolts to the hub, which comes back weeks later as a pulse through the brake pedal. It also guarantees that the next person needing that wheel off, quite possibly you, at the kerb, with the brace out of the boot, will not shift it.
A puncture found on a Sunday used to cost you the Monday. Everything shut, nothing bookable until the week started, and a car sat outside doing nothing useful in Stockwell town. Or on Stockwell Road, if that is where it stopped. A the Clapham Road area cul-de-sac or a South Lambeth main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in South Lambeth or a narrow bay on Brixton Road is usually workable.
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The place never really goes quiet, but it thins out, and the small hours are when there is finally space at the kerb along South Lambeth Road and on the streets behind it. We work through the night, which is when a good share of these calls come in. The wheel goes back on with a wrench rather than a gun, and that is the difference you notice the next time you try to undo it yourself.
Nights are when there is room to do this properly on a main road. Bead broken, casing inspected, patch fitted from the inside and the wheel balanced again, all of it done before the first buses come through.
Broken glass collects in the kerb line where cars park, so a tyre tends to pick it up turning into a bay rather than at speed. Small clean punctures like that are among the easiest things we deal with.
Half the reason people ring rather than change it themselves is that the last place ran the nuts up with a gun until nothing in the boot would shift them. We get them off, and they go back to the figure in the book.
Because it is clamping force that holds the wheel on, not tightness for its own sake. Too loose and the studs take a hammering until one breaks. Too tight and you stretch the studs and warp what sits behind the wheel. The book figure is the middle of that.
A re check after fifty miles or so is worth doing on alloys, because the seats bed in and the reading can drop a little. Ask us for the figure your car uses and anybody with a wrench can do it, including you.
Yes, and the standard does not move with the clock. The casing is unseated from the wheel, read from inside, the hole reamed out and a combined plug and patch fitted to BS AU 159. Darkness only changes the lighting we bring with us.
Not at all. We need roughly a metre at the corner being worked on and somewhere to stand. If the car in front has left you tight, say so on the phone and the low jack comes out with us rather than the argument starting on arrival.
It would if it were left alone. A patch puts extra weight at a single point, so the wheel goes onto the balancer afterwards and the weights are reset. Skipping that step is why some repaired tyres come back with a shake at fifty.
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