Not every flat is a puncture. A fair share of the urgent calls we take turn out to be the valve, which is the small stem the air goes in through and the one part of the assembly with a working life shorter than the tyre. Rubber stems harden and split at the base where they pass through the rim. Metal ones, the type carrying a pressure sensor, corrode where the seal meets the wheel. Either way the tyre itself can be perfect and the car still goes down overnight.
Telling the two apart takes about a minute at the roadside and it decides the whole job. Soapy water round the base of the stem and round the core shows a valve leak straight away, and a valve is a short change once the tyre is broken away from the rim. If the stem is dry, the tyre comes off and the search moves to the tread, where a proper repair is possible when the damage sits inside the central band, and to the shoulder and sidewall, where it never is. Repairs follow BS AU 159, so the verdict is not a matter of opinion or of how busy the evening happens to be.
What makes a puncture an emergency is rarely the puncture. We work on that basis across Greater London: urgent jobs are prioritised for dispatch, you get a live ETA rather than a window, and the repair is done to British Standard where the car is parked instead of at the end of a trip you do not have time for. Level in Devonshire Street, sloping in Portman: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Devonshire Street or Portman is worth flagging.
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Around the Portman streets and off Marylebone High Street the bays are permit controlled and there is rarely a second one waiting, so moving a car to find out what is wrong costs more than the fault does. We arrive, test the valve before anything else, and only break the tyre off the rim once the stem has been ruled out. Traffic on the Marylebone Road keeps no office hours and neither do we.
The tyre had been replaced recently and had gone down again. The sensor stem had been reused rather than renewed, and its seal gave up on the second seating. A fresh service kit onto the same sensor took a few minutes, and the wheel held pressure properly afterwards.
The pressure light was on with all four tyres reading correctly on a gauge. That points at a sensor rather than a tyre, most often a battery reaching the end of its life inside a sealed unit. It could be confirmed at the kerb without anything coming off the car.
A car parked most of the week near Devonshire Street had a rubber stem split right at the base, which is what age does to them whether the wheels turn or not. The tyre had years left in it. Replacing a valve was the entire repair.
Routinely. The tyre is broken away from the rim on one side, the old stem comes out, a new one goes in, and the tyre is reseated and rebalanced. The same tyre goes back on the same wheel and carries on with whatever life it had left.
Not when the right parts are used. A sensor has a service kit of seal, nut and core meant to be renewed each time a tyre is changed. Reusing the old seal is the usual reason a wheel starts losing air again shortly after being fitted.
More urgent than it feels. A cracked stem does not fail gently once it starts flexing at speed, and running underinflated heats the sidewall and ruins a tyre that was otherwise sound. It is a small job that becomes an expensive one if it is left alone.
Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes and the work itself is short, so call and you will get a realistic time before deciding whether to feed the meter again. If we are going to be at the far end of that window, you hear it on the phone.
It depends entirely on where. A nail through the tread area, inside the central band, is repairable to standard and the tyre keeps going. Anything in the shoulder or the sidewall is not repairable by anybody, and you hear that in the first few minutes.
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