The first thing out of the van on an urgent puncture is often a spray bottle of soapy water. You put air in the tyre, wet the tread and the shoulder, then watch. Air escaping under pressure blows the film into a little dome of foam, and it will do that at a nail hole far too small to see and far too small to feel with a thumb. Thirty seconds of that beats ten minutes of squinting at rubber.
It matters most when the clock is the problem, because the alternative is getting the tyre off and hunting, and hunting is where the time disappears. Finding the object quickly also settles the answer early: central tread and it can be repaired properly, shoulder or sidewall and no repair is either legal or safe, whatever the internet says. You get that verdict in the first few minutes rather than at the end, which is what actually lets you plan the rest of your morning.
The nursery closes at six and charges by the minute after that. We come to wherever the car is in TW1 with a live ETA, so you know whether to ring ahead. A driveway in Twickenham Green, a work car park or the roadside, whichever applies. We are out on Richmond Road at 2am and in Strawberry Hill at 2pm. The St Margarets phone and the Whitton phone ring the same fitter, any hour.
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Between the crawl on Heath Road and the streets around Twickenham Green where there is barely room to open a door, this is not a place you want to be poking about at a tyre with the clock running. We come to the car, find the leak in the first few minutes, and tell you what you are dealing with before your window closes.
A driver with a pickup to make and a tyre losing a few psi an hour. The soapy water found the culprit almost at once, a staple sitting square in the tread, and the repair went in with time to spare.
The foam came up right on the shoulder edge, which is the answer nobody wants. No repair is legitimate there, so the driver was told inside five minutes and got a replacement instead of a wasted morning.
A tyre down twelve psi overnight with nothing at all to find by eye. The leak turned out to be at the valve rather than in the rubber, which is a much smaller bill and a much shorter visit.
Then the tyre comes off the rim and we check the bead seat and the valve, which is where a mystery leak usually lives. Corrosion on the rim edge lets air past slowly and looks exactly like a puncture from the driver's seat.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes. If your window is tighter than that, say so when you ring and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a maybe, because a maybe is no use to somebody with a train to catch.
Yes, always. The tyre has to leave the rim so the inside can be inspected and the patch bonded from within. Anything done with the tyre still sitting on the wheel is a temporary bodge, not a repair.
No. A nail that is holding today is a nail working its way further in, and it will pick its own moment. It is also cheapest and simplest to deal with now, while the tyre is at full pressure and has never been run soft.
That is the normal way for these. Tell us where the car is and roughly what it looks like, we get on with it, and you come back out to a finished job. Card payment whenever you surface.
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