There is a version of an urgent job that nobody advertises, which is the one where the size is not on the van. It happens with unusual fitments, some performance sizes and the occasional 4x4, and the honest thing is to say so on the phone before anybody drives anywhere. What follows is a real timescale for getting the correct tyre, rather than a vague promise and a wasted afternoon, and if that timescale does not work for you then at least you can make other arrangements while the day is still young.
What will not happen is a near enough size going on because it is what happens to be aboard. The size on the plate in the door shut is the size that is fitted, because the rolling radius feeds the speedometer and the wheel speed sensors and a close approximation is not the same thing. When the correct tyre does arrive it goes on beside the car, is balanced on the van's machine, torqued to the manufacturer's figure and set to the plate pressure, and the failed casing is taken away.
When a tyre is finished, the useful question is how quickly you can be legal again. We answer it by bringing the replacement to you in TW9 instead of asking you to drive to it, which matters when the tyre in question is split, shredded or down past the wear bars. Old tyres leave Petersham, Kew and TW9 with us, every time. You watch it happen in Kew, or at the kerb in North Sheen. The TW9 postcode and a street in Kew: that is enough.
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Plenty of the cars parked around George Street and up towards the park run sizes that are common enough to travel on the van, and a few do not. Which of those you are is worth knowing at the start of the call rather than an hour in. Either way the correct fitment is what goes on, balanced and torqued beside the car, with the failed one taken away.
An unusual fitment on a car near Richmond Hill was not aboard. The owner heard that at the outset and got a real time rather than a hopeful one.
A destroyed tyre on the A316 in a size that travels as standard. Correct match fitted at the roadside within the hour of arriving.
A driver near Kew Road was happy to take whatever fitted to get moving. It was explained why a different rolling radius is a problem, and the right tyre came instead.
You are told straight away and given a realistic time for getting hold of it. Nothing goes on just because it will physically mount.
Because the rolling radius feeds the speedometer and the wheel speed sensors that the ABS relies on. A different circumference on one corner is a false reading.
Common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments in budget, mid-range and premium. The unusual ones are the exception rather than the rule.
The car needs to be level and stable, so on a steep street you may be asked to move a short distance first. That is quicker than it sounds.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes for anything in stock, across Richmond, Kew and out towards Twickenham.
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