It helps to know what turns up when you call, because the picture of a bloke with a spanner does not cover it. The van arrives with tyres in the common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes already on board, a trolley jack that lifts from proper points rather than a folding one from a boot, chocks so a slope is not an obstacle, a torque wrench so the nuts go back to a figure instead of to somebody's judgement, a balancer so the wheel does not shake at forty, and its own lighting so an unlit stretch of side street changes nothing. That is the difference between a roadside fix and a roadside bodge.
Until it gets there, your job is to stay off the Broadway. The A5 through Cricklewood is a long, congested artery of buses and delivery lorries running between the West End and the North Circular, and it is a poor place to nurse a soft tyre and a worse place to sit in one. Get into a side street if you can do it in a short distance, then stop, put the hazards on and get out on the pavement side. Ring us with the road and the nearest parade or junction. Everything after that happens beside the car, and you drive away on a wheel that has been balanced and torqued properly.
A tyre can go flat without ever being punctured. We come to where the car is, Cricklewood Broadway, Mapesbury 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. The the Chichele Road area phone and the Gladstone Park phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Mapesbury, midday in Childs Hill, the same call either way. NW2 takes in Childs Hill and Dollis Hill, and we work the lot.
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Cricklewood is more or less defined by one road. The A5 Broadway runs the whole length of it carrying buses, lorries and commuters between central London and the A406, the junction with Cricklewood Lane stays congested from early until late, and the surface is worn and patched for long stretches. Behind it the terraced streets around Mapesbury and towards Dollis Hill are parked tight with no room to work. A van that arrives fully equipped and does the whole job beside your parked car is the only version of this that does not involve the Broadway twice.
A tyre went in the queue on the Broadway with buses stacked behind. The driver took the first turning rather than pressing on, which cost a few yards of tread and saved a great deal of trouble.
A flat discovered after dark on a street with poor lighting. The van carries its own, so the work went ahead exactly as it would have at midday and the owner never had to hold a phone torch.
The tight bays along the Broadway parades catch wheels daily. This one split a sidewall on the way in and the tyre went down while parked, which is the version where nobody is standing in traffic.
Tyres in the common sizes, a proper trolley jack, chocks, a torque wrench, a balancer and our own lighting. That is what allows the job to be finished at the kerb rather than half done and finished somewhere else.
Yes, before it goes back on the car. An unbalanced wheel shakes through the steering as soon as you pick up speed, so it is not something worth skipping to save ten minutes.
It costs more, not less. The Broadway is slow and congested so a short distance takes a long time, and the whole of it is spent destroying a tyre that may well have been repairable.
Hazards on, then get into a side street if one is within a few yards. If not, stay put, get out on the pavement side and leave the car where it is. Buses can pass a stationary car more easily than a moving one on a rim.
Yes, and residential calls in NW2 are the bulk of what we do here. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes and we work at the kerb outside the house.
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