A surprising number of urgent punctures turn out to be old ones. A screw goes in, seals itself, and rides around in the tread for weeks with its head slowly wearing flat against the road until it is nothing but a small silver disc you would never pick out. Then it works loose or wears through, and the tyre goes down in an afternoon, generally the afternoon something depended on it.
The useful part is that a screw which has been in that long has usually done very little damage. It went in cleanly, it has not been moving about inside, and the casing behind it is normally untouched. Those are the easy ones: reamed out, plugged and patched from the inside, wheel balanced, tyre back on the car with its full life ahead of it. What ruins them is the drive afterwards. Once the tyre has gone down, carrying on to somewhere convenient is exactly how the repair gets lost.
You will get a time, not a window, and that is most of what an emergency service is for. Behind it is a straightforward job done properly: the wheel comes off where the car is, on Praed Street or on a drive, the tyre is inspected from the inside, and a repair to British Standard goes in where the damage permits. Level in Westbourne Terrace, sloping in Little Venice: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Sheldon Square or Sussex Gardens is worth flagging.
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Traffic around Paddington means the journey to a garage is often longer than the repair, and it is the journey that costs you the tyre. Leave the car in its bay, say which street it is on and where the nail sits if you can see it, and the work happens alongside it. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes, with urgent calls going to the front.
A driver near Praed Street had been running a screw for weeks without knowing. It only turned up when the tyre finally started dropping. Clean entry, straightforward repair.
A soft tyre and an appointment that had waited months. The fitter got there quickly, repaired it in the bay, and the appointment was made with time in hand.
A tyre going down on a quiet Sunday near Bayswater with everything shut. Repaired at the kerb that afternoon rather than left to be driven on come Monday.
Yes, and sooner is better. It is sealing the hole it made, and when it works loose or wears through you lose the air somewhere less convenient.
No. Leave it where it is until the fitter arrives, because pulling it releases whatever pressure is left and you gain nothing by knowing.
Yes. Priority means the van sets off sooner. The repair itself is unchanged: off the rim, casing checked, reamed, plugged, patched to BS AU 159 and rebalanced.
Regularly. Give the level and the bay, and mention the height barrier if it looks low.
Then it cannot be repaired and you are told immediately, with a correct replacement fitted the same visit so the day still works.
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