The question that comes up most often about a screw is whether it can wait until the weekend. It is usually asked by somebody who has found the head of one sitting flush in the tread and has watched the tyre give up two or three psi a day. The honest answer is that nobody can promise you anything, because the screw is not what is holding the air in. The rubber squeezed tight around the shank is, and every mile flexes that grip a little looser.
The other half of it is predictable. Once a tyre is running properly soft the sidewalls fold over on themselves as the wheel turns and the inner surface begins grinding against itself. The grey dust that leaves behind is the tyre wearing out its own liner, and that is the line between a repair and a bill for a new one. It is a question of miles rather than days. So a screw is today's job, at your kerb, with the car left where it is. If it went in through the central band, out it comes, the hole is cleaned and a proper plug and patch goes in from the inside.
It is worth being specific on the phone, because it makes the job faster. The van then comes to you in Staines-upon-Thames with everything needed to finish: wheel off, inside inspected, an internal repair to British Standard where the damage qualifies, rebalanced and pressure-set. An Ashford Common cul-de-sac or a Knowle Green main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Staines Town or a narrow bay on the A320 is usually workable.
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Dropping the car at a garage on the way to work sounds sensible until you price the journey. Getting across town and back through the one-way system, or sitting in the morning flow on the A30 London Road, is exactly the sort of slow, hot, low-pressure running that finishes off a tyre that could have been saved. The screw is the small problem. The trip to have it looked at is frequently the bigger one.
Spotted in a school car park at Ashford with the return trip and a full working day still to come. We got there inside the morning and did the wheel where it stood, before the tyre had a chance to go properly flat.
A driver in Staines Town found the tyre down and a clock that had already run out. The screw had gone in dead centre, which is the easy case, and the car left on time with a permanent repair.
This screw sat two fingers in from the edge of the tread, in the shoulder, where the rubber flexes hardest and no patch is allowed to go. That one had to be a replacement, and pretending otherwise would have built a failure into the tyre.
No. Leave it exactly where it is. It is partly plugging its own hole, and pulling it opens the leak up completely, usually somewhere inconvenient. It also helps us find the injury quickly once we are at the car.
For a short while, but it hides how fast the leak is growing and tempts you into longer trips on a tyre that is quietly getting worse. Topping up is a way of getting home. It is not a way of running a car.
No. It gets jacked and worked on where it sits, on a drive, in a work car park or at the kerbside, provided there is room to stand beside it safely. Moving it is the one thing we would rather you did not do.
Yes, when it is done properly and in the right part of the tyre. A DVSA compliant repair is a permanent one and lasts as long as the tyre does. What is not legal is a string pushed in from the outside, which is what most roadside kits contain.
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