Oddly, a nail you can see is the good outcome. It tells you where the damage is, it usually means the object is still plugging its own hole, and it is why the tyre is going down slowly rather than instantly. The awkward ones are the punctures with nothing visible, where something went in, did its work and fell out again, leaving a hole you can only find by submerging the tyre or spraying it.
We can find those, it just takes longer. The tyre comes off the rim, gets checked over inside and out, and the leak is traced properly rather than guessed at. Once found, the treatment is the same as any other: reamed, cleaned and sealed from the inside with a combined plug and patch to BS AU 159, then balanced and refitted with the pressures set. So do not talk yourself out of calling because you cannot see anything in the tread. Not being able to see it is normal.
What you should not do is drive on it to save the wait. Leave the car where it is, on East Street or on the drive and let the van come to it. Anywhere in Greater London. Whether it is Thames View in rush hour or the North Circular at midnight, we answer. On Ripple Road, day or night, Creekmouth included, arrival across IG11 runs 30 to 60 minutes. An IG11 address in Upney and one in Gascoigne are the same round.
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Barking gets a lot of nail and screw pickups because of the goods traffic feeding the riverside and industrial estates, and plenty of those objects do not stay in the tyre long enough to be found later. That is the reason so many drivers here assume they are imagining a slow puncture. Taking the tyre off and tracing the leak properly settles it, and it happens at your kerb rather than after a drive down the A13.
A driver in Gascoigne could see nothing in the tread at all. Off the rim, the hole was traced in a minute and sealed properly.
A car on Ripple Road had an obvious nail head. That made it a quick job and the tyre was saved without difficulty.
A slow loss at Barking Riverside turned out to be the valve rather than the tread. Replaced, and the tyre stopped going down.
Very possibly. Objects often fall out after making the hole, and a leak that small will not show from the outside. We trace it once the tyre is off the rim.
Yes. Valves perish and leak, and a corroded rim can let air past the bead. Both are checked as a matter of course while the tyre is off.
A little. Finding it is the extra step, and once located the repair itself is the same internal plug and patch to BS AU 159.
Yes. Estates around Creekmouth and Thames View are regular stops and the car can stay parked while we work on it.
You are told straight away and a replacement goes on from van stock the same visit rather than becoming a second appointment.
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