Whatever is under the boot floor of a modern car is probably not a spare wheel, and if it is, it is probably a space saver. Those are the narrow ones on a bright steel rim, and they come with real restrictions: typically fifty miles an hour, a limited distance, and on many cars they are not supposed to go on a driven axle at all. They exist to get you off a motorway, not to get you through a week. Fitting one and carrying on as normal is a genuinely bad idea, and plenty of people do it for months.
So when the clock is against you, the space saver is a fallback rather than a plan. If the puncture sits in the central tread it can be reamed, plugged and patched where the car stands and you drive off on your own tyre with nothing outstanding. If it cannot, a correct full size replacement goes on from the van the same visit. Either way you leave with four proper tyres rather than three and a compromise, which around the ring road and the arterial is not a small thing.
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 Romford town centre. Boxed in on a Rush Green terrace or wide open in Harold Wood, say which on the phone. Tight in Marshalls Park, easy in Collier Row: neither stops the job.
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The junctions where the A12 and the A127 meet the ring road are no place to be pottering along on a space saver at fifty, and that is exactly what a lot of drivers end up doing for weeks. Dealing with the real tyre where the car has stopped avoids the whole arrangement, whether that ends in a repair to BS AU 159 or a full size replacement off the van.
A car in Harold Wood had been running on the narrow spare since the spring, well past what it was designed for. The original tyre had been repairable at the time.
A driver near Marshalls Park was about to fit the space saver. The puncture was central and clean, so the real tyre was repaired and the spare stayed in the boot.
A tyre beyond saving near Rush Green with a fixed appointment to keep. Correct full size replacement out of the van and the car left properly shod.
Usually fifty miles an hour and a restricted distance, and on many cars it should not go on a driven axle. The details are printed on the wheel itself.
It is not built for that. Handling, braking and grip are all reduced, and it will wear out quickly, so it is a way to move rather than a way to carry on.
That is now normal, and it makes no difference. The repair or the replacement happens at the car, so a spare was never part of the plan.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes across Romford, and a fixed deadline moves the job up the list when you mention it.
A correct full size replacement goes on from the van the same visit rather than leaving you on the narrow spare.
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