A fair number of the repairs we carry out here begin with a tin of sealant that was used an hour earlier.
Sealant is a get home measure, not a repair. It coats the inside of the tyre, which means the puncture still has to be found and the casing still has to be cleaned out before anything can be bonded to it. That takes longer and it makes a mess, but it does not usually rule a proper repair out. What does rule one out is distance driven afterwards at speed, because the sealant will not stop the tyre running soft and the liner breaks up all the same.
Mention on the phone that sealant has gone in, so the fitter arrives ready for it.
Somebody waiting to be collected turns a puncture into an emergency faster than anything else. The work happens at the car in Princes Risborough: wheel off, tyre inspected from the inside, internal repair to British Standard where the damage sits inside the limits. Whether it is Monks Risborough in rush hour or the B4009 at midnight, we answer. On Wycombe Road, day or night, Longwick included, arrival across Buckinghamshire runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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The roads out of Princes Risborough are exactly the sort where a driver reaches for the sealant bottle. Climbing, twisting, with no verge and no obvious place to stop between here and Stokenchurch or Great Missenden. Using it to reach somewhere safe is sensible. Treating it as the end of the matter is not, because the puncture is still there under the coating. We finish the job properly once the car is parked, wherever that turns out to be.
A driver used the bottle from the boot to get off the Wycombe Road and back to the house, then rang. The tyre came off the rim, the compound was washed out, the nail hole was found inside the repairable band, and a proper plug and patch went in.
A car at Askett had a puncture too large for the sealant to bridge and the pressure kept falling away. Rather than repeat the exercise, we came out, found a 4mm hole in the tread, and repaired it properly in about twenty five minutes.
Sealant had coated the pressure sensor inside a wheel at Monks Risborough and the warning light stayed on afterwards. The sensor was cleaned as part of the repair, so the system read correctly again rather than nagging for the rest of the year.
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Abdul was super quick getting to me, literally within 30 minutes, and super quick sorting my car out. Very polite and checked I was OK. Highly recommend.
Honestly wish I could give more than 5 stars! Last night after leaving Wembley we got a flat tyre, stranded 2 hours from home, and these guys got us back up and running. 10/10 service from start to finish, even at 1am!
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Usually not. It has to be cleaned out first, which adds time and mess to the job, but the repair itself is unaffected once the casing is clean and the damage sits inside the repairable zone.
As short a distance as gets you somewhere safe, at low speed. The kit instructions normally cap it around 50mph and a limited range. It is a way of moving the car off a bad road, not a way of finishing the week.
Exactly this. Stop somewhere safe and have a fitter come to the car. The absence of a spare only matters if the fix has to happen at a garage, and it does not, because the van brings the tyre, the tools and the balancer.
It can coat it and stop it reading correctly. We clean the sensor while the tyre is off the rim and check the system before leaving, so you are not left with a warning light that never clears afterwards.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes to anywhere in Princes Risborough, including the market streets where there is nowhere to put a recovery truck but plenty of room for a fitter to work at the kerb.
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