The most expensive thing in a New Malden glovebox is often the tin of sealant kept for exactly this moment. It is sold as a repair and it is not one.
A genuine repair is a different process. The tyre comes off the rim, the inner surface is inspected, the hole is reamed out and a combined plug and patch goes on from inside, then the wheel is balanced and torqued back. Done properly it is permanent and the tyre runs out its normal life.
Under time pressure the two questions never change. Is the puncture in the central tread band, and has the car been driven on it? Answer both on the phone and you will know before anyone sets off whether you are looking at a repair or a replacement.
The car being off the road is the problem; the puncture is just the reason. So the job is finished on site in Norbiton or wherever the car is standing rather than started there. Blocked drive in Norbiton? Open kerb in Worcester Park? Either works. Which street in Malden Manor, which way the car sits in Motspur Park, and we are set.
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Punctures around New Malden mostly come off the A3 corridor and the industrial approaches on Burlington Road, and most of them are repairable when we get to them first. The two things that take that option away are a tin of sealant and a few miles of driving. Neither is worth it when the van can reach the car where it is standing.
A tyre near Norbiton had been dosed from a tin seven days earlier and had held just well enough to keep the car moving. The inside was coated, nothing would key to it, and what began as a repairable nail in the tread band ended as a replacement.
A soft rear was found on a Motspur Park driveway with a nine o'clock start looming. The car had not moved, the object was well inside the repairable zone, and the whole thing was finished with time to spare. Not moving the car is what made that possible.
A tyre off the Kingston Road had picked up a screw and a staple within a few inches of one another. Both sat inside the repairable band and were far enough apart to take separate patches, so the tyre stayed on the car instead of being written off on sight.
It might get you moving, and that is all it is for. It is not a repair, it rarely holds for long, it coats the inside of the tyre so a proper repair may no longer bond, and it can wreck the valve sensor. Using it usually costs more than it saves.
No. The tyre has to come off the rim so the inner surface can be inspected, because a nail moves around inside the casing and does damage you cannot see from outside. Anything done through the tread from outside is a get you home measure, not a fix.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes around New Malden, with a realistic window rather than an optimistic one. If the A3 or the Kingston Road is already backed up, you will be told that on the phone instead of being left watching the clock.
Then a replacement goes on during the same visit, because the stock travels with the tools. You will hear which of the two it is before any work starts, and if the answer is obvious from a photograph you will hear it before the van even leaves.
It should not. The sensor comes out with the tyre, gets checked and goes back in with a fresh seal where one is needed. What actually kills sensors is aerosol sealant sprayed in through the valve, which is one more reason not to use it.
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