Three seconds is about what you get, and what you do with them matters more than anything afterwards. A front tyre going takes the steering with it: the car pulls hard towards the failed corner and the wheel turns heavy and vague at once. A rear one is sneakier, a loose swimming feeling at the back while the steering stays light.
The two instincts that arrive first are both wrong. A big armful of opposite lock and a bootful of brake are what turn a ruined tyre into a bent car. Hold the wheel with both hands, make the smallest correction that keeps you pointing where you already were, and come off the accelerator gradually rather than snatching your foot up. A sharp lift throws weight forward onto a car that is already unbalanced.
The brakes come last, gently, once you are straight and slow, and only then do you think about indicating and getting off the road. The tyre is scrap whatever you do. What those three seconds protect is the rest of the car and you.
The rim is the expensive part, and driving on a burst tyre is how it gets destroyed. We come out to the exact spot, Blackheath or anywhere else in Greenwich, with the right size on the van and fit it there. Whether it is Maze Hill in rush hour or Blackwall Lane at midnight, we answer. On Trafalgar Road, day or night, Blackheath included, arrival across SE10 runs 30 to 60 minutes. A SE10 address in Blackheath and one in Westcombe Park are the same round.
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Greenwich gives you very little room for this to go well. Trafalgar Road carries buses and cannot be blocked, the one-way system offers few obvious places to pull in, and the approach to the tunnel is the last place anybody wants to stand beside a stopped car. So the seconds before you stop decide where you spend the next hour.
The car dived left and the driver held it, let it slow without touching the brake and rolled onto the kerb. The casing was in pieces and the rim had not a mark on it.
A rear blowout climbing away feels like the back end swimming rather than a pull, and this driver nearly carried on. Small inputs, no brakes, a stop on a side turning. We fitted the size from the fitting van.
Coming off the A2 Blackwall Lane, a driver braked hard the instant it went and finished up across two lanes, luckily into empty road. The tyre was scrap either way. Braking adds everything else to the bill.
Not straight away. Braking loads the failed corner harder and can swing the car, and on a front blowout it takes the steering further away from you at the worst moment. Ease off the accelerator, keep straight, let the speed fall, then brake gently.
A front one is more frightening, because the pull is immediate and the steering fights you. A rear one catches more people out, because it feels vague rather than violent and drivers often keep going while they work out what happened.
No. A burst wrecks the casing from the inside even when the outside holds its shape. Cords are broken, the inner liner has been chewed against the rim, and there is nothing sound for a patch to bond to.
Then keep rolling at walking pace until there is, and accept that you are spending the wheel to buy the safe spot. A rim can be replaced. Standing in a live lane cannot be undone.
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