There is nothing wrong with a car parked on a slope, but there is a great deal wrong with jacking one up on a slope without chocks. That is worth knowing here, because Amersham does not really do level ground. The roads between the Old Town in the valley and Amersham-on-the-Hill climb the whole way, Stanley Hill is steep enough to make anybody nervous about the handbrake, and the lanes towards Little Chalfont undulate constantly. If you have stopped on a gradient with a flat, the answer is to leave it alone.
We come to you and we bring the parts of this that make it safe. The wheels get chocked front and back before anything lifts, the jack goes on a proper lifting point rather than wherever it fits, and the car is stable before a nut is touched. None of that needs a driveway, a garage floor or a recovery truck. Handbrake on, hazards on, and stand somewhere sensible off the carriageway while you wait, which on the narrow stretch of the Old Amersham High Street usually means the pavement behind the car rather than the road side of it. Give us the street and roughly what the car is and a van is on its way.
A flat is either a warning or a failure, and it is worth knowing which one you have got. That is what happens when we arrive in Old Amersham or wherever the car is standing, and you get the verdict before anything is charged for. Underground parking in Woodside Road or Quill Hall is worth flagging. A Quill Hall cul-de-sac or a Chestnut Lane main road, tell us which.
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Two halves of a town joined by hills is a lovely thing to live in and a difficult thing to break down in. The descents into Old Amersham are hard on a damaged tyre, the High Street is too tight to work in, and the A413 and A416 both have quick sections where a car sitting on the verge is exposed. Staying still solves all three. We reach a driveway off Chestnut Lane, the station car park up on the Hill or a lay-by on the A416 with the same kit on board, and the car finishes the day where it started.
A driver stopped on the climb and rang before doing anything else. The car had not moved a foot on the flat tyre and it did not move again until the wheel was chocked, lifted and dealt with properly.
A tyre went down while parked among the historic frontages with cars nose to tail. Nobody could have jacked that safely. We worked from the pavement side and the car stayed in its space throughout.
A fast road with thin lay-by cover is no place to experiment. The driver got well clear of the running lane, stood back from it, and waited. The wheel change itself took a fraction of the waiting time.
Yes, safely, because we chock the wheels and use the manufacturer's lifting points. A car on a slope is only dangerous when it is lifted without either of those, which is the real risk of doing it yourself on Stanley Hill.
No. A flat tyre does not need the car moved anywhere, and calling a truck means paying to be taken to a garage that will do what we do at your kerb.
Please do not. Downhill is the worst direction to run a flat tyre because the braking loads sit on the damaged corner. The tyre will not survive the descent and the rim may not either.
On the pavement, behind the car rather than beside it, and with everyone out of the vehicle if the road is busy. On the A413 or the A416 stand well back from the traffic and further up the verge than feels necessary.
Across the whole of Amersham and the surrounding Chiltern lanes, including the run down towards Chesham and out towards Gerrards Cross. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes, and we give you an honest estimate for the more rural addresses.
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