Somebody will offer to help. A colleague who has done it before, a neighbour with a trolley jack, a passer-by who is confident about it. Their instincts are kind and the outcome is usually poor, because a car lifted on the wrong point buckles a sill, a wheel put back on by hand comes loose, and a helpful shove of the car to a better spot finishes off a tyre that was still repairable. If you are outside the studios or in an office car park and somebody is rolling their sleeves up, the useful thing to say is that a van is already on its way.
That is the whole message here. There is nothing you or anyone standing nearby needs to do to the car. Hazards on if you are near traffic, everybody clear of it, and let it sit. Borehamwood is ringed by roads that punish a damaged tyre, with the M25 at Junction 23, the A1 to the east and the A411 cutting across, so nudging the car to a better bay off Shenley Road is not worth what it costs. When the van arrives the car goes up on a proper lifting point, the tyre comes off the rim so the inside can be judged, and the wheel goes back balanced and torqued to the right figure rather than to the strength of whoever was holding the brace.
Whether the car is sat on a driveway in Elstree with a tyre that was fine yesterday, or stopped dead on the M25 near junction 23, the useful thing is the same: get somebody to look at it before it is driven again. The M25, the A1 and the streets around Manor Way sit inside Hertfordshire. The Elstree phone and the Furzehill phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Furzehill, midday in Cowley Hill, the same call either way.
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Borehamwood sits in a tight pocket of fast roads with the M25 to the north, the A1 to the east and the A411 across the middle, and Shenley Road running busy and tightly parked through the centre of it. That combination means a damaged car has nowhere good to go and no easy space to be worked on by an amateur. Leaving it exactly where it stopped, refusing the offers of help, and waiting for a van with the right jack and the right tyre is not the slow option here. It is the one that ends with the wheel, the sill and the tyre all intact.
A well-meaning colleague had the car up under a sill rather than a lifting point. It came back down before any damage was done, but only just. Enthusiasm is not the same as knowing where a car can be lifted.
Three people shifted a car twenty yards to a wider bay with the tyre flat. The tyre did not survive those twenty yards. The bay made no difference to us at all, since we work at the kerb either way.
The industrial units and studio car parks pick up screws constantly. Found in the bay at the end of a day rather than at speed on the A1, and dealt with without the car turning a wheel.
We would rather you did not. The tools that live in a car are a bare minimum, the lifting points are easy to miss, and wheel nuts need a torque figure rather than a firm arm. There is nothing lost by waiting.
It will cost you the tyre. Moving a car on a flat, even by hand and even a short distance, works the sidewall off the bead. Where the car is parked makes no difference to how we work.
No. This is finished at the vehicle in a single visit, so a tow would only be moving a car that is minutes away from being driveable again.
Get onto the hard shoulder, out of the car on the side away from traffic, and behind the barrier well back from the vehicle. Traffic merges hard at that junction and the car is the last place to sit.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, and often quicker, since we are only a short run up the A1 from our North London base. That applies to a home in Cowley Hill or a car park off Theobald Street alike.
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