The can of sealant in the boot is the reason a fair number of repairable tyres end up being replaced. It works by coating the inside of the casing with a latex that sets, which is fine as far as it goes, but it coats everything and not just the hole. The inner liner it is supposed to seal is also the surface a patch has to bond to.
Then there is the sensor. On a car with pressure monitoring, the valve stem carries a small unit with a port that reads the air inside, and sealant finds that port. Once it has set in there the unit either reads nothing or reads nonsense, and it becomes a replacement part rather than a clean-out job. A sealed tyre can still be dealt with, but it has to be scrubbed back to clean rubber before a BS AU 159 repair goes near it, and what is under the mess is very often a plain nail. Ring before you press the button. The answer is usually that you do not need it.
Hospital and clinic appointments are the ones people apologise for ringing about, and they should not. An appointment that took months to get is exactly the sort of thing an urgent dispatch exists for. Roadside on Elgin Avenue, a car park or your own drive, it is the same visit. Boxed in on an Elgin Avenue terrace or wide open in Warwick Avenue, say which on the phone. Tight in Sutherland Avenue, easy in Maida Hill: neither stops the job. A W9 address in Maida Vale and one in Little Venice are the same round.
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Mansion block streets in W9 offer nowhere to work on a car except the bay it already sits in, which is a large part of why drivers here reach for a can instead. There is no need for it. Give us the street and where the car is parked, and the wheel gets dealt with properly where it stands, sensor included.
A driver on Warwick Avenue rang before reaching into the boot. The object had gone into the middle of the tread, which is the one zone where a combined plug and patch belongs, so it was reamed, repaired from the inside and the wheel rebalanced before it went back on.
A car pulled in off the A5 had been treated with an aerosol hours earlier. The tyre was dismounted, the liner scrubbed back, and the puncture proved to be in the shoulder anyway. The sensor had to come out too, so one can made two jobs.
A tyre on a car near Maida Hill had a screw sitting right on the edge of the tread blocks. That zone flexes on every revolution and the standard excludes it for good reason. The owner got a straight no and a replacement instead of a patch that would let go later.
Not necessarily. It has to come off the rim and the liner has to be cleaned back properly before anyone can even see the hole, but a central puncture under all that is still repairable more often than not.
It frequently does. The sensor reads through a small port on the valve stem, and once latex has set inside there it is a new unit rather than a wash-out. That is the part the packaging leaves out.
In the tread area, away from the shoulder and well away from the sidewall. BS AU 159 draws that line and it is not negotiable, because the edges of a tyre flex far too much to hold a patch.
An external plug on its own is a get-you-home measure rather than a repair. Doing it properly means dismounting the tyre, inspecting the damage from the inside and bonding a combined plug and patch where the hole actually is.
Then a new one goes on there and then. The fitting van carries stock in the common sizes, so the outcome of the visit does not depend on whether the puncture turns out to be a good one.
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