Kerbing damage in Clerkenwell rarely announces itself at the time. The cobbled corners and narrow one-ways around the Green mean a wheel gets pinched against a raised edge at very low speed, the sidewall takes a squeeze it was not designed for, and nothing happens at all for a few hours. Then the tyre is soft in the morning, or there is a bulge you did not notice the previous evening. If you know you caught something on the way into a bay off St John Street, it is worth a look rather than a shrug, because the damage from a slow kerb strike can be more serious than a nail.
Either way the response is the same and it is not dramatic. The car stays where it is parked. Clerkenwell is one of the tightest neighbourhoods in inner London, the permit bays fill by morning, and Clerkenwell Road and Farringdon Road both carry steady traffic with nowhere to pull in, so a journey to a workshop would be slow, risky and end with you circling for a space. Ring us, give us the street and the nearest corner, and the wheel comes off where the car sits. The tyre comes off the rim so the inside can be looked at properly, which is the only way to tell a cosmetic scuff from a real problem.
Flat on the drive in the morning is the commonest call we get. The car was fine last night, and now one corner is sitting down on itself outside the house in Clerkenwell Green with somewhere to be in forty minutes. Steep camber in Farringdon Road? We move a few metres, the Amwell Street area or anywhere else. Blocked drive in Exmouth Market? Open kerb in St John Street? Either works. The EC1R postcode and a street in Exmouth Market: that is enough.
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Clerkenwell was built long before anybody imagined parking a car in it, and that history shows the moment a tyre is in trouble. The lanes around Clerkenwell Green and Exmouth Market are narrow and cobbled in places, the one-ways force awkward angles into tight bays, and the permit spaces are gone by morning. Out on Clerkenwell Road and Farringdon Road there is steady traffic and nowhere legal to stop. Between the two there is no good place to change a wheel yourself, and no reason to try. The van reaches the bay, the wheel comes off there, and the car keeps the space it has.
A low speed pinch against a raised edge did not feel like anything at the time. The tyre was soft by the next morning and the sidewall had taken the damage rather than the tread, which changes the answer entirely.
A flat found at the end of a working day with the bays full and nowhere to move to. Nothing needed moving. The car stayed in its space and the wheel came off from the road side.
Constant deliveries and refurbishment around Exmouth Market leave a lot of small metal in the gutters. This one was a clean object in the middle of the tread, found before the tyre had run flat.
Very likely. A slow pinch against a raised edge squeezes the sidewall and the damage often shows itself hours later. It is worth mentioning when you ring, because it points us at the wall rather than the tread.
No. We work beside it exactly where it is parked, which matters here more than most places given how early the bays around Amwell Street and St John Street fill up.
No. A tyre is dealt with at the vehicle, so a tow would be moving a car that is about to be driveable and leaving you to retrieve it from somewhere across the City later.
Yes, once the tyre is off the rim and the inside can be seen. That is the only honest way to judge it, and you get a straight answer with the casing in front of you rather than a guess over the phone.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, at any hour. The area is quiet enough in the evenings that late calls around Clerkenwell Road often run faster than daytime ones.
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