Twenty past seven, shift starts at eight, and the nearside front is down on the rim for the third Monday running. It was fine on Friday. It is always fine on Friday. That pattern, flat after standing and holding up perfectly well once the car has been driven, points at the valve far more often than it points at anything in the tread. A rubber valve perishes where it bends over the rim and the crack only opens when the wheel is cold and still. A metal one corrodes at the base where aluminium meets steel.
Which is why the first thing that gets sprayed is not the tread but the valve and the bead, with soapy water and about thirty seconds of watching. Bubbles at the base and the answer is a valve, which is a five minute job with the tyre never leaving the rim. If it genuinely is a puncture, position decides everything: the middle of the tread can be repaired, the shoulder cannot, the sidewall never. Coming to you as a priority means arriving sooner. It does not mean skipping the part where somebody works out what is actually wrong.
Hospital and clinic appointments are the ones people apologise for ringing about, and they should not. Then it is the usual work done quickly: we come to the car in SE26, get the wheel off, inspect the tyre from the inside and repair it to British Standard where the damage permits. The wheel comes off in Sydenham, not on a ramp in Bromley. Nothing is towed out of Crystal Palace or Bell Green; the work finishes there. SE26 takes in Bell Green and Forest Hill, and we work the lot.
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The gradients around Upper Sydenham are the main reason we would rather you rang than had a go yourself. A jack on a slope is genuinely dangerous, more so on the front of the car where the wheel you are removing is one of the two doing the steering. Add a road parked to both kerbs and a bit of camber, and there is often no safe spot within a hundred metres of where you stopped.
Three tyres topped up at a petrol station over the course of a month and not a nail in any of them. The valves had perished at the base on a car old enough for it. Four new valves and the problem stopped.
Pulling away uphill on a tyre well down on pressure drags at the bead far harder than any flat road manages. This one had already begun to unseat, which was obvious the moment the wheel came off.
A screw in the middle of the tread, which is the good place for one to be. Sealed at the kerb, wheel balanced, back on the car, and the appointment was kept.
Not honestly. It can be narrowed down by asking whether the tyre goes flat overnight or while you are driving, and whether anything is visible in the tread. The real answer arrives when somebody has the wheel in their hands.
Stop as soon as you safely can, and do not keep climbing on it. A tyre losing air under load is doing the most damage it will ever do, and a bead that unseats itself on a gradient is not something you want to meet at speed.
They should be, and here they are as a matter of course. A valve is a rubber part living outdoors on a moving wheel. Putting a brand new tyre over a ten year old one is asking to be back where you started.
No, as long as the wheel can be reached and you have told us where the car is and what has happened to it. A lot of these jobs get done while the owner is at work. A locked compound is the one thing that needs a person.
If the tread is good and the injury is in the right place, repair it. There is nothing second rate about a properly patched tyre and it costs a fraction of a new one. If the tread was nearly finished anyway, the new tyre is the better spend.
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