A tyre that has sat still for a week can go down without anything happening to it at all. Cars parked up on the terraced streets of SW4 for days at a time lose pressure slowly through a valve, a slight rim leak or an object picked up before they were parked, and the owner discovers it on a Monday morning with somewhere to be. Nothing has gone wrong with your driving and there is nothing you missed. It is worth getting into the habit of a quick look at the tyres before you set off if the car has been standing, because a soft tyre spotted from the pavement is a completely different problem from one discovered at speed on the A3.
If you have found it flat where it is parked, that is the easiest version of this and the car should simply stay there. Do not set off to a garage. The High Street is busy day and night, the A3 runs quickly along Clapham Common South Side, and Clapham Junction backs the whole area up at either end of the day, so any journey you attempt on a flat will take longer and cost more than the wait. Ring us with the street and roughly where along it the car is, and the wheel comes off in the permit bay it has been sitting in all week.
A tyre can go flat without ever being punctured. A kerb strike can break the seal between the tyre and the rim, corrosion on an older alloy can do the same slowly, and a valve that has perished will empty a perfectly good tyre over a fortnight. All three look identical from the outside and none of them is fixed by more air. We come to where the car is, Abbeville Village, Clapham North or anywhere between, get the wheel off and find which it is, then clean and reseat, replace the valve, repair to standard or fit a replacement as the case requires. Across Greater London, day or night.
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Clapham is dense, popular and permanently in use, which is exactly why so many of these tyres go down while the car is standing still rather than while it is moving. The bays are tight, the kerbs near the stations catch wheels, and cars sit for days on the terraced streets of Clapham North and Abbeville Village between journeys. That is genuinely good news. A tyre found flat in its own parking space has not been driven on, has not damaged the rim and is in the best possible condition for a repair, and the van comes to the bay rather than asking the car to cross the Common roads to reach a workshop.
A car untouched since the previous weekend, one tyre flat to the rim and no obvious cause. It turned out to be a valve. Nothing about it was the driver's doing and nothing about it required the car to move.
A driver noticed a tyre looked low while walking up to the car and rang before starting the engine. That thirty second look is the difference between a repair at the kerb and a failure somewhere on Kings Avenue.
A tight bay and a raised kerb bruised a sidewall on the way in. The pressure went overnight while the car sat there, which is the good outcome. Found at speed it would have been a very different call.
Usually a valve, a slow leak at the rim, or something picked up before you parked that has been leaking quietly since. It happens to cars that have done nothing wrong, and found this way it is often still repairable.
No. Only just flat becomes properly flat within a few hundred yards, and the roads here do not help. The High Street and the Common roads are slow and busy, so you would spend a long time doing a lot of damage.
No. This is finished where the car is standing, so a tow would take a car that is minutes from being driveable and leave it somewhere you then have to reach.
Yes, beside the car in its own bay. Nothing needs moving and you do not lose a space you probably waited a long time for around Clapham North or the Old Town.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, day or night. If you are stopped out on the A3 rather than parked safely, tell us and you are treated as the more urgent call.
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