East Heath Road, the pull up Rosslyn Hill, the climb away from Swiss Cottage: very little of NW3 is level ground, and that changes what changing a wheel at the roadside actually involves. Jacking a car on a gradient is the part of this that genuinely goes wrong for people. The vehicle wants to creep off the jack, the handbrake is holding two wheels that are about to become one, and village streets are usually cambered as well as sloped.
We do it daily and we bring what makes it safe: chocks, a jack that beds down square, and the judgement to roll a car twenty feet onto flatter tarmac before starting rather than halfway through. Once a tyre is beyond saving, the new one goes on in the size the car was designed for, is balanced on the van, and is torqued to the figure the manufacturer publishes instead of somebody leaning on a bar until it feels tight. Budget, mid-range and premium are all available and all the main brands are on offer, with the cost settled between us before a single wheel comes off.
Two tyres on the same axle should match, and a single emergency replacement is where that gets decided. It goes on where the car is parked in South End Green, balanced on site, valve checked, pressures set. The Belsize Park phone and the Swiss Cottage phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Swiss Cottage, midday in South End Green, the same call either way.
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The steep, narrow roads that make Hampstead pleasant to live in make it awkward to be stranded in. There is rarely anywhere to pull over near the Heath, and a damaged tyre on a downhill run towards Camden is not something to gamble with. We come up to the car instead.
A pothole had cut through to the cords on the inner shoulder. It was never going to be repairable and the owner already suspected as much. Correct size came off the van, went on, balanced and torqued, and the car was usable within the hour.
This driver had started to change it themselves on a slope near the Heath, got the car up on the standard jack and then very sensibly stopped. We finished it properly with the vehicle chocked, and fitted a full size tyre rather than leaving them on a space saver.
Nothing local was open and the car was needed first thing Monday. That is the whole argument for a fitter who works weekends. New tyre on Sunday evening at the kerb, paid for by contactless, and Monday morning happened normally.
With the right chocks and a jack placed on a proper lifting point, yes. Where the slope is genuinely severe we will move the car a short distance first. We do not improvise on that.
Almost always. Give us the numbers off the sidewall when you ring and we will confirm before setting off rather than turning up hopeful.
Usually somewhere between half an hour and an hour, depending on where in the borough you are and what the Finchley Road is doing at the time.
Only if the other one is also low or badly worn. If it has plenty of tread left we will say so and fit one.
New tyres come with a two year manufacturer warranty, and we stand behind the fitting itself as well.
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