Fitting the wrong size in a hurry causes more trouble than the failure that started it. Change the width or the profile and you change the rolling radius, which is how far the car travels for one turn of the wheel. That feeds the speedometer, the odometer and, more importantly, the wheel speed sensors that the ABS and the stability system rely on. Put a noticeably different circumference on one corner and the car is now being told one wheel is turning at a different rate to the others, which is precisely the signal those systems use to decide something is slipping.
So the size that goes on is the size on the plate in the door shut, not the nearest thing that will physically mount. If the exact fitment is not aboard, you get told that plainly rather than sold a close approximation. The tyre goes on the rim beside the car, is balanced on the van's machine, torqued to the manufacturer's figure and set to the pressure on the plate, and the old casing leaves with the fitter.
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 St George's Square or wherever it stopped, the sensor is checked as the wheel goes back on, and the pressures are set to spec. The wheel comes off in Warwick Square, not on a ramp in Victoria. Nothing is towed out of Churchill Gardens or the Dolphin Square area; the work finishes there. SW1V takes in Lupus Street and Belgrave Road, and we work the lot.
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There is no version of a Pimlico garage trip that ends well on a destroyed tyre: Vauxhall Bridge Road and Grosvenor Road are the wrong roads to be limping along, and the bay you leave will not be there when you return. The correct fitment comes to the car instead, goes on properly and is balanced before you drive on it.
A car near St George's Square had been given a slightly narrower tyre by somebody else on the front axle. The traction light had been coming on ever since and nobody had linked the two.
A destroyed tyre outside a block on Lupus Street. The right size came out on the van and went on where the car sat, with the bay kept throughout.
An unusual fitment on a car near Vauxhall Bridge Road was not on the van. The owner was told at once and given a real timescale rather than a guess.
It can. The wheel speed sensors feed the ABS and the stability control, and they work by comparing one corner against the others. A different rolling radius is a false signal.
On the plate in the driver's door shut, along with the pressures. The sidewall of the tyre currently fitted is a second opinion rather than proof, since it may itself be wrong.
You are told straight away and given a realistic time for getting it. Nothing gets fitted just because it will go on the rim.
Yes, that is where most of these happen. The car keeps its space and everything is done alongside it.
The price is agreed before the wheel comes off, then card or contactless once it is back on and torqued.
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