Two nails in one tyre is not simply twice as much work. It can be the difference between a repair and a replacement, and the deciding factor is how far apart they sit. A repair takes a bite out of the belt around the hole, because the wound has to be reamed clean before anything is bonded into it. Put two of those close together and the reinforcement left between them is doing very little.
So when we pull a wheel and find more than one puncture, the first thing done is to mark them and measure. BS AU 159 sets both a minimum separation between repairs and a limit on how many a casing may carry, and neither is negotiable at a kerbside. Well spread across the central tread, two nails are usually two straightforward repairs, both reamed, both sealed with a combined plug and patch worked in from behind. Sitting near each other, or one of them creeping toward the shoulder, and the answer changes. That call is better made before you have paid for a repair nobody should have offered.
Urgent means the clock, not just the tyre. Hospital appointment, a delivery slot, someone to collect: those jobs go to the front of the queue and the van heads straight for you in E10. Whether it is Bakers Arms in rush hour or Ruckholt Road at midnight, we answer. On Ruckholt Road, day or night, Lea Bridge included, arrival across E10 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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The streets running off Leyton High Road pick up more than their share of nails, between the deliveries and the constant kerbside works. Multiple punctures in one tyre are commoner here than most drivers would guess. Since almost nobody has a driveway to work on around Lea Bridge, we bring the light and the space with us and take the wheel off where the car already is.
A car parked near Temple Mills came to us with a tyre going down and three separate entries in the tread. Two were well spread and would have been fine on their own. The third sat too near one of them for a second repair to stand up, so the tyre was changed.
A fresh puncture landed close to a repair done the previous year. The old patch was sound and staying put, which left the new hole nowhere legal to go. With the tyre off the rim the owner could see the spacing for himself, and a replacement went on.
A driver on a terraced street off Francis Road expected the worst after finding a second nail. Both sat well inside the central tread and a long way apart, so both were reamed and sealed properly, the wheel was rebalanced and the car went back into the same space.
The standard caps it, and the cap is low. Each repair removes a little of the belt and each one is a place where the liner has been cut and rebuilt. A casing carrying several of them has stopped being a tyre and started being a patchwork.
Not reliably. You can find the entries from outside, but you cannot see how they line up on the inside or whether one has travelled at an angle through the belt. The tyre comes off the rim before anybody gives you an answer.
Longer than a plug and shorter than most people expect. Deflate, break the bead, inspect the liner, ream the wound, bond the unit in from behind, refit, balance and torque. Rushing any one of those steps is how a repair comes back.
Roadside calls there are taken, but get well clear of the live carriageway first and have your direction of travel ready when you ring. Across E10 the usual arrival window is 30 to 60 minutes.
It helps a great deal. A tyre that has not been run flat has not cooked its own liner, so the casing is usually sound and the repair is a straightforward one. Leaving it standing where it is nearly always works out cheaper.
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