The punctures that catch people out are the ones with no drama attached. A long screw with a small head goes into the tread, the head sits flush and disappears into a groove, and because the screw fills the hole it made, the tyre barely loses any air at all. You get a pound or two a week. Nobody notices until the pressure warning comes on, or until it comes out on a bump and the tyre goes down in a mile.
That is why a tyre that seems to need topping up more often than the others is worth a proper look rather than another squirt at the forecourt. Nine times out of ten there is something in it. We take the tyre off the rim, find the object, and seal the channel from the inside with a combined plug and patch to BS AU 159. The alternative is that it chooses its own moment, and the A45 is not where you want that to be.
What you should not do is drive on it to save the wait. Leave the car where it is, on the A4500 or on the drive and let the van come to it. Anywhere in Northamptonshire. Nothing is towed out of Redhill Grange or Queensway; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Croyland, and the same on the A510.
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A slow puncture is a tyre giving you notice, and it is worth taking. Almost everything we deal with on the A45 hard shoulder started as a tyre that had been quietly losing air for a fortnight while somebody topped it up. Catching it on the drive at Croyland or Hemmingwell is cheaper, safer and takes less of your day than catching it at seventy.
You can run a hand over the tread and miss it entirely. It shows up when the tyre is off the rim and the inside is inspected, or when the pressure finally starts dropping properly.
Slow but consistent loss is a puncture until proven otherwise. Topping it up manages the symptom while the object works its way further in and the hole gets bigger.
Access roads and loading areas around the industrial estates collect fixings. It is a very common way to acquire a tyre problem that does not announce itself for a fortnight.
A small seasonal drop is normal. Needing to top up one tyre noticeably more often than the other three is not, and there is usually something in it.
No. It is holding the air in while it sits there. Pull it out and you will very likely be driving on a flat within a mile.
Sometimes, if it is visible. The reliable way is off the rim, where the inside of the tyre shows both the entry point and any damage the object caused on the way through.
Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes across the Wellingborough area, and a single wheel is usually finished well inside the hour once we are with you.
You are told immediately and a replacement goes on from van stock in the correct size, balanced and torqued at the car.
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