There is a limit to how big a hole can be and still be mended, and it is smaller than most people expect. In the repairable part of the tread, the central band, the damage can be up to about six millimetres across once it has been cleaned out. A roofing screw leaves something well inside that. A bolt or a piece of angle iron off a building site does not, and no amount of urgency changes the number.
So when the clock is the problem, the useful thing is answering the question early. Say what went in and roughly where, and you will normally know before the van arrives whether this is a repair or a tyre. Either way it happens beside the car, in the bay or on the street where it stands, and either way it is done properly. Being moved up the queue means the fitter sets off sooner. It has never meant a shorter version of the repair.
It is worth being specific on the phone, because it makes the job faster. The van then comes to you in EC1V with everything needed to finish: wheel off, inside inspected, an internal repair to British Standard where the damage qualifies, rebalanced and pressure-set. The wheel comes off in the Bunhill Fields area, not on a ramp in Shoreditch. Nothing is towed out of Moorfields or City Road; the work finishes there. EC1V takes in City Road and the Featherstone Street area, and we work the lot.
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Around EC1Y an hour lost to a tyre is usually an hour lost to the traffic rather than to the work. That is the part being removed. The fitter comes to the bay, tells you early whether the damage falls inside what can be repaired, and either patches it to the standard or fits a correct replacement on the same visit.
A soft tyre found at half past eight on a permit bay near Featherstone Street. Small entry, dead centre, patched from the inside and rebalanced with time to spare.
Something substantial had gone through a tread block on a car near Bunhill Fields. It was well over what a repair can cover, so a replacement went on instead and nobody wasted an hour finding that out.
A car off City Road had picked up a pair of nails close together. Repairs have to sit a certain distance apart to be trusted, and these did not, so the tyre was changed.
Around six millimetres across the cleaned out hole, and only in the central tread. Beyond that there is not enough sound material around it for a patch to work against.
It can, provided they sit far enough apart and all fall in the repairable area. What it cannot have is two overlapping patches, and you will be told which situation yours is.
Often, yes. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes and a straightforward repair is about half an hour on top. You get an honest answer on the phone rather than a hopeful one.
There is no such thing here. A repair to BS AU 159 is permanent or it is not done, and if the tyre cannot take one then a replacement goes on instead.
In most of them. Height is the only thing worth checking before the fitter sets off, so mention it if the barrier looks low.
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