The first few minutes decide how much this ends up costing you. If the steering has gone heavy on the A243 Leatherhead Road and you can feel a corner dragging, do not stand on the brakes.
The next question is nearly always whether to put the spare on. Given a full-size spare, flat ground and space away from the lane, it is fair enough to try. Most cars around here do not carry one. They have a space saver rated to fifty miles at fifty miles an hour, or a sealant canister that does nothing at all for a cut sidewall, and neither is worth kneeling beside a live lane for.
What is never worth it is carrying on. A mile driven flat destroys the inner liner and often takes the rim with it.
Whether the car is sat on a driveway in Chessington South with a tyre that was fine yesterday, or stopped dead on Leatherhead Road, the useful thing is the same: get somebody to look at it before it is driven again. The A3, Leatherhead Road and the streets around Claygate sit inside Greater London. Tight in Hook, easy in Malden Rushett: neither stops the job. Level in Malden Rushett, sloping in Tolworth: we set the car straight first.
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Chessington offers two bad places to lose a tyre. There are the fast stretches of the A243 and the A3, where stopping safely is the whole problem, and there are the close-parked streets off Hook Road, where the problem starts once you have stopped and find nowhere to work. Either way the answer is the same: stand clear, leave the car, let the van come to you.
A driver felt the car pull hard on the Hook Road approach to the A3 and turned into a residential street rather than pressing on to the junction. That decision saved the tyre. The nail was still sitting in the tread, the casing was sound, and it went back on repaired.
Someone fitted the skinny spare in the theme park car park, drove home on it and then kept using it for a fortnight. It was down to the indicators by the time we saw it. We fitted a proper tyre to the original wheel and put the spare back in the boot.
A slow leak that had been topped up all week finally emptied in stationary traffic near Malden Rushett. We reached the car in the pull-in the driver had managed to coast into and found a split valve stem rather than anything wrong with the tyre itself.
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Only on level ground, well clear of passing traffic, and only if you are comfortable doing it. On a slope, on a soft verge or anywhere near a live lane, leave it alone. A space saver is speed limited anyway, so it buys you very little for the risk involved.
No. Running deflated ruins the inner liner within a few hundred yards and can crack the alloy where the bead seats. A puncture that would have been patched in half an hour becomes a new tyre, and sometimes a new wheel with it.
Not on the A243 or anywhere traffic passes close. Get out on the side away from the road and stand behind a fence or barrier if there is one. In a quiet street off Hook Road, staying in the car is usually the sensible choice instead.
Where the car is, which corner has gone down, and the size code off the sidewall if you can read it safely. That code tells us whether the right tyre is already on board, which is often the difference between one visit and two.
It helps a great deal, because we need access to the car and to the locking wheel nut key. If you have had to leave it somewhere secure, say so when you call and we will fix a time to meet you there.
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