The tyre comes off the wheel at half eleven at night under a work lamp, and the puncture turns out to be the least interesting thing about the job. Along the inner lip of the rim, invisible with a tyre fitted, there is a flattened section and a line of bruised aluminium. That is a kerb strike, probably weeks old. The tyre had been holding air over the top of it because the bead was clamped hard against the metal. Break that bead and the damage is suddenly in plain view.
People do not expect that from a puncture repair, so we mention it early: the bead seat and the flange get inspected every time a tyre comes off. A good repair on a damaged rim goes flat again inside a fortnight, and you will quite reasonably blame the repair. Small burrs and a raised lip can be dressed back and sealed. A cracked rim or a genuinely bent flange cannot, and we will say so rather than refit it and hope. We are out at any hour, every day of the year, and the verdict at midnight is the same as it would be at noon.
Bank holidays are the worst of it. Not here: dispatch runs 365 days a year across SM1, and the van carries what it needs to finish the job on the spot. It makes no difference whether the car is in Sutton Common or Benhilton, or which hour of which day it is. Same tools in Belmont as in Cheam, same on every call. Valve in Rosehill, balance in Benhilton, pressures before we go.
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Nothing in the town centre opens at two in the morning, and the car park levels people leave their cars on are shut anyway. Meanwhile a car outside a house in Benhilton or Belmont with a soft tyre is a problem that has to be solved before the morning rather than after it. We bring the lamp, the jack and the kit to take the tyre off the wheel, so it gets finished where the car stands.
A slow puncture on a car that could not be left blocking anyone come the morning. Tyre off, hole patched, seat cleaned where corrosion had crept under the bead, and the car sat on full pressure by one.
Somebody else had patched it twice. The tyre was fine. The rim had a rolled lip from a kerb and was weeping past the bead, which no patch in the world was ever going to cure.
Alloys corrode where the tyre sits on them, especially on cars whose wheels never come off. Taking the seat back to clean metal and sealing it properly cures a leak that looks for all the world like a puncture.
Nine times out of ten it is the wheel rather than the tyre. Corrosion or a kerb mark on the bead seat lets air weep out slowly, and it will never show up in a bucket of water with the tyre still fitted.
Light damage, yes. Dressing a burr, cleaning the seat and resealing all happen with the tyre off anyway. Bent or cracked wheels need a specialist refurbisher, and we will tell you straight when that is what you are looking at.
Yes, three in the morning on a Sunday included. Punctures do not check the calendar, and the small hours are often the easiest time to work on a car parked in a street that is impossible at five in the afternoon.
A straightforward one with the wheel off the car is usually inside the hour, longer if the rim needs cleaning up. Most of that time goes on breaking the bead, inspecting the inside and rebalancing, not on the patch itself.
It does. The tyre has to leave the rim to be inspected and patched from within, and that cannot be done with the wheel bolted to the hub. It goes back on with a torque wrench rather than an air gun.
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