Run-flats are a different animal and they need saying out loud before anybody fits one. The sidewalls are heavily reinforced so the tyre can carry the car for a limited distance with no air in it at all, usually somewhere around fifty miles at reduced speed. That is genuinely useful. What it also means is that the car very likely has no spare wheel at all, and that a run-flat which has done its emergency job is finished, because the reinforcement is a one-time consumable.
The part that catches people out is mixing. A car set up on run-flats has its suspension tuned around that stiffer sidewall, and putting a conventional tyre on one corner changes how that corner behaves. If your car came on run-flats, the replacement should be a run-flat. We check what is on the other three before anything comes out of the van, and we will tell you if what you have asked for is not what the car is wearing.
6mm across the central three-quarters is illegal, and the penalty is per tyre. Where a tyre is genuinely past it, we bring the correct size out to the car in Nightingale and fit it where it stands, balanced, valve checked, pressures set. School run in Cambridge Park or 1am in Nightingale, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Snaresbrook, any day in Aldersbrook: the line is open. The E11 postcode and a street in Snaresbrook: that is enough.
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The A12 runs fast along the southern edge towards the Green Man with almost nowhere to stop, and a run-flat is the one kind of tyre that gives you a genuine option there: get clear of the carriageway first, then ring. Once you are somewhere safe, the replacement comes to the car, gets balanced and torqued on the spot, and the old casing leaves with us.
That is what the tyre was designed to do and it is also the end of it. The reinforced sidewall has been through the one job it had, and it does not go back to being an ordinary tyre afterwards.
Most run-flat cars carry no spare, so when one is finished the car is genuinely stuck until somebody brings a tyre to it. That is precisely the situation this service exists for.
It happens when somebody fits what is available rather than what is correct. The car then has three stiff sidewalls and one soft one, and it will not behave evenly under braking.
The sidewall carries a marking such as RFT, ROF, SSR or ZP depending on the maker. Read us what is on yours and we will tell you which you have.
Sometimes, if it has not been driven on while flat and the damage sits in the repairable band. Once it has carried the car with no air in it, no.
Common fitments travel on the van and we can confirm before setting off if you read us the full sidewall code when you ring.
Sometimes on paper, and it changes how the car rides and leaves you without any get-you-home ability, on a car with no spare. We will talk it through rather than decide it for you.
Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes across Wanstead, day or night, and we come to the car rather than asking you to bring it anywhere.
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