People ringing at three in the morning ask what we can actually see at three in the morning. Fair question. A proper repair is not something done by feel: the tyre comes off the rim and the inside of the casing is examined, inch by inch, before anybody decides whether it can be saved. That takes light. The van carries work lamps run off its own supply, so the inner liner gets lit like a workbench instead of squinted at under a streetlamp with a phone held in your teeth.
It matters because the things that condemn a tyre are grey and subtle. Scuffing on the liner. A wrinkle where the rubber has folded over on itself. The dull polish that says a tyre has been driven on soft. Miss any of that and you patch a casing which was already finished. Where the injury turns out to be a straight tread puncture, the hole gets reamed and a combined plug and patch goes in from the inside, done to the BS AU 159 standard. The wheel is balanced before it returns to the car. Nothing drops after midnight, because the lighting does not.
The useful thing about an overnight repair is what it saves you the next morning. We do the second, across KT6, 24 hours a day and every day of the year. Driveways in Tolworth, side streets and supermarket car parks are all normal working ground at three in the morning. The Long Ditton phone and the Alexandra Drive phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in St Marks Hill, midday in Berrylands, the same call either way. The KT6 postcode and a street in Berrylands: that is enough.
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Surbiton at night is quiet, and that helps. The streets near the station which are impossible at eight in the morning are half empty at two. We keep the noise down, work with hand tools rather than anything howling outside somebody's bedroom window, and leave the street exactly as we found it. For a car sitting on Victoria Road or Brighton Road, the small hours are often the easiest time for us to get to it.
A slow puncture found at the end of a late shift, on a street where the car could not be left sticking out. Wheel off, casing checked under the lamps, sealed from the inside, back on by one.
A tyre going down the night before an early start is a decision rather than a problem. Sort it in the evening, or find it in the dark with a case already in your hand. We came out the evening before.
The nail sat in the tread and looked like a straightforward job from the outside. The liner said otherwise, greyed and rubbed where the tyre had run flat for a while, so the honest verdict was a new one.
It does not. Night work here is not a premium service with a premium invoice attached to it. It is the same job done in worse light, which is exactly why the van carries its own light with it. The hour changes the traffic, not the bill.
Around half an hour once we are with you, a little longer if the tyre is stiff on the rim and does not want to break the bead. Most of that time is the inspection and the balancing, which are the two parts nobody ever sees.
Because nothing has been looked at. An external string is pushed into a hole from the road side, with the damage inside the casing still unknown. A patched repair bonds to the liner, seals the injury from both directions and is meant to last the life of the tread.
Yes, provided we can reach the wheel and stand safely beside it while we work. A resident's space, a driveway or a workplace bay are all fine. Where a car is genuinely in a bad spot, we say so and shift it a few metres first.
No. What goes on at two in the morning is the finished article, not a temporary measure to get you as far as a garage. Where a tyre cannot be repaired to standard, you hear that at the time and decide about a replacement then.
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