Two nails in one tyre is not simply twice the trouble of one. Each puncture needs a patch bonded to the inside of the casing, and each patch needs sound rubber all around it to bond to. Put two repairs too close together and the patches want to sit on top of one another, with the plies between the two holes already cut about and not much left carrying the load. Well apart and both in the middle of the tread, that is two repairs and a usable tyre. Crowded together, it is a new one.
Which is why nobody can settle this over the phone from a description. Two entry points an inch apart may not be two nails at all. One nail can go in, work its way out and go straight back in, tearing a channel between the holes, and that is worse than two clean punctures. It gets decided with the tyre off the rim and a lamp inside the casing. Where the answer is yes, you get a permanent repair and your day back. Where it is no, you hear it before any money changes hands.
The nursery closes at six and charges by the minute after that. We come to wherever the car is in E15 with a live ETA, so you know whether to ring ahead. A driveway in Stratford town centre, a work car park or the roadside, whichever applies. Level in Maryland, sloping in Bow: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Maryland or Bow is worth flagging. An E15 address in West Ham and one in Pudding Mill are the same round.
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Nails and screws are an occupational hazard around the delivery and event traffic in E15 and E20, and they arrive in clusters rather than one at a time. A tyre that has driven through a spill of debris can easily have two things in it, and only one may matter. That answer is worth waiting ten minutes for. The tyre is either repairable or it is not, and it is not a judgement to make from the driver's seat.
Both picked up somewhere around Pudding Mill on roads full of delivery traffic. They sat far enough apart to take separate patches, so in they went and the tyre carried on, which is not always how that ends.
From outside it looked like two punctures. Inside the casing there was a single torn track running between them, and no patch will cover that safely, so the tyre had to be replaced and the driver was shown why.
A soft tyre spotted at ten past seven with a child to drop off and a shift after it. Being first in the queue is what priority means. The repair itself went at the normal careful pace, because there is no fast version of it.
Not honestly. We can tell you what makes it unlikely, such as a hole near the edge of the tread or a tyre that has been driven flat. Anything more definite than that is guesswork until the tyre is off the wheel.
Because that part of the tyre bends every time the wheel turns and a patch will not stay bonded through it. Repairs are confined to the central band of the tread. Shoulders and sidewalls are replacement territory, however small the hole looks.
Sometimes, if the plug has not been in long and the inside is undamaged. Often it is not, because an external plug lets air and moisture creep in between the belts. The tyre comes off and gets looked at before anybody makes promises.
There is no single magic number. It depends where they sit and how far apart they are. Several small, well spaced repairs in the central band are acceptable. Two crowded into one area are not, however small each of them is.
That is a good deal of what we do. Leave the car locked with the wheel accessible, tell us where it is parked, and it is finished before you come out. Payment goes through on card at the car once it is done.
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