The valve you inflate through is often not just a valve. On most cars built in the last decade it is the visible end of a pressure sensor living inside the wheel, strapped to the rim or built into the valve stem itself, sending a reading to the dashboard several times a minute. It is a small thing that costs real money, and it belongs to the wheel rather than to the tyre.
Which matters when a tyre is being replaced. The old tyre comes off the rim, the sensor stays with the rim, and it wants a new grommet and a new nut when the new tyre goes on, tightened to a figure rather than nipped up by feel. Skip any of that and the sensor either leaks slowly around the stem or stops reporting, and you drive away with a light on the dash that nobody can be bothered to explain. Half the drivers we meet who have a permanent pressure warning got it from a tyre change. It is not a fault with the car. It is a step somebody left out.
Run-flats need replacing with run-flats, and it matters more than it sounds. It is fitted and balanced where the car is standing, in Leyton Midland or wherever it stopped, the sensor is checked as the wheel goes back on, and the pressures are set to spec. On Ruckholt Road, day or night, Francis Road included, arrival across E10 runs 30 to 60 minutes. We are out on Ruckholt Road at 2am and in Bakers Arms at 2pm. The E10 postcode and a street in Lea Bridge: that is enough.
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Around Bakers Arms and the streets off the High Road, a replacement usually happens exactly where the car spent the night, because there is nowhere else for it to go. Doing it there does not mean doing it lightly. Sensor, balance weights and torque figure get the same attention they would get in a workshop bay, because the car has to be right when it pulls out into E10 traffic.
A driver near Lea Bridge needed a rear replaced after a sidewall cut. The sensor came out of the old tyre, got a fresh grommet and valve nut and went back into the same rim. The system relearned on the drive and the dashboard stayed dark.
A car off Leyton High Road came to us for one tyre and had a warning that had been glowing for months. The stem had been overtightened somewhere else and cracked. A replacement sensor went in with the new tyre and the light finally went out.
An owner near Temple Mills swapped onto a second set of wheels with no sensors in them and could not understand the constant warning. Sensors were fitted to the spare set at the kerb, and the car has read all four pressures since.
It should not. The sensor is transferred, resealed and tightened correctly as part of the job, and the system is given its chance to relearn. If a light is already on before we arrive, say so, because that usually means a sensor itself needs replacing.
They run on a sealed battery that cannot be changed, so they have a working life measured in years rather than in miles. When one goes flat it simply stops reporting. That is worth knowing before you assume the tyre is at fault.
You can, and plenty do, but you have then given up the one thing that tells you a tyre is losing air before you can feel it. Most slow punctures announce themselves that way first, long before there is anything to see.
We work from the size, load index and speed rating printed on the sidewall, so read those out when you ring and availability is confirmed before we set off. All the major brands are on the list, premium through to budget.
That is most of the work here. The car stays where it is parked, the fitting van pulls alongside, and the wheel comes off at the kerb. Nobody has to find a space twice or move a car that is not safe to move.
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