There is a thing that looks like a tyre repair and takes almost no time at all, and we do not do it. A sticky string is forced into the hole from outside with the wheel still on the car, the tail is trimmed off flush, the tyre holds air, and everyone drives away pleased. It is quick, it looks tidy, and nobody has been inside the tyre. That is not a repair. It is a delay with a receipt attached.
A proper one runs the other way round. The wheel is taken off the car, the bead is broken and the tyre lifted clear of the rim, and the inside is inspected for scuffing, tears in the liner and cut cords, because that is where the reasons to refuse live. The hole is reamed square and clean, a combined plug and patch is bonded so the stem fills the hole while the patch seals the liner, and the wheel is rebalanced before it goes back. That is the BS AU 159 method, and it is why the tyre keeps its rating.
The holiday departure is the one that hurts most, because the whole thing is timed. Ferry, flight, a booked slot at the other end, and a nail found in the tread while the car is being loaded outside the house in Norbury. Same tools in Thornton Heath as in Green Lane, same on every call. Valve in Green Lane, balance in Pollards Hill, pressures before we go. A SW16 address in Norbury and one in Thornton Heath are the same round.
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London Road traffic makes people want the fastest possible answer, and the fastest possible answer is usually the wrong one. We would rather take the wheel off at your kerb, whether that is near Pollards Hill or a side street in SW16, and do the whole job than push something into a hole and drive away. The time difference is small. The difference in what you end up with is not.
One tyre came off the rim with a string plug in it that had been holding for weeks. Underneath, the liner was torn where the string had been forced through and the surrounding cords had started to rust. It went in the pile and a new tyre went on.
A puncture sitting on the shoulder of the tread cannot be repaired, and somebody being late for work does not move that boundary anywhere. We explained where the repairable band ends, showed the owner the hole in relation to it, and fitted a replacement.
Everything a workshop does to a tyre travels with us, the balancer included. So a repair carried out outside a house off Green Lane is the same repair, inspected inside, bonded to the liner and balanced, not a roadside shortcut wearing the same name.
It fills a hole without sealing the liner, and it goes in through cords without anybody checking whether they were cut. Air then travels along inside the casing instead of leaking out where you could see it.
Every time. Half the reasons to say no live on the inside, and there is no way to see any of them with the tyre still seated. It is the step that separates a repair from a hopeful guess.
No. If it is repairable we repair it properly there and then, and if it is not, we fit a tyre. There is no middle version we are willing to put our name to.
For a correctly placed puncture, a repair to the standard is a permanent restoration of the casing. It keeps the marked speed rating and it does not need watching. That is what the standard is there for.
It is about position far more than count. Punctures in the central tread, well apart from one another and from any earlier repair, can be dealt with. Anything on the shoulder or the sidewall is a replacement whatever the number.
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