People often ask about the warning triangle, so it is worth clearing up. On an ordinary road, set out well behind the car on the same side, it does help traffic read the situation earlier. On a motorway you must not use one at all, because walking back along a live carriageway to place it puts you in far more danger than the car ever was. So if you have come off the M1 at Junction 11 and stopped on the slip road or the shoulder, leave the triangle in the boot, get out on the nearside and stand well back. On the A5 or the A505 through town, by all means put it out if you can do so safely from the verge.
After that, do nothing else. The car does not need to be moved, jacked or nursed anywhere. Dunstable sits at a genuine pinch point where Watling Street meets the A505, with heavy lorries running north and south and a town centre layout that makes turning a struggling car around unpleasant, so a stationary car with the hazards on is a far smaller problem than a moving one on a rim. Ring us with the road, the direction and the last junction you passed, and a van comes out with the tyre, the tools and its own lighting.
There are two kinds of flat. One is the slow one you catch on a driveway in Totternhoe, down a good few psi since Friday and still holding enough to look fine. Either way you are not left stranded in Dunstable and not paying for a recovery truck to move a car that needs one tyre. The A505, the M1 and the streets around Manshead sit inside Bedfordshire. No closing time in Kensworth, none in Totternhoe, none on the M1. School run in Downside or 1am in Town Centre, we answer the same.
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Dunstable stands at one of the old crossroads of England, where the A5 meets the A505 right in the middle of town and the M1 sits minutes away at Junctions 11 and 11A. That makes it a place where a tyre failure has consequences beyond your own morning, because a stopped car on Watling Street backs up freight traffic quickly. It also makes it a bad place to attempt anything clever. Stop where you are, leave the car alone, get yourself clear of the carriageway, and let a fully stocked van come out to the spot.
The driver was about to walk back along the shoulder to set it out. We asked them not to. On a motorway or its slip roads the triangle is not worth the walk, and the hazards do the job perfectly well.
A tyre let go on Watling Street with lorries stacking up behind. There is very little safe stopping through the middle of Dunstable, so the car went as far left as it could and stayed there until the wheel was changed.
The trade units and retail parks along the Luton Road corridor see constant van traffic and the car park surfaces collect nails. Found while parked, which meant a slow leak rather than a roadside drama.
On ordinary roads yes, if you can place it safely well behind the car. On the motorway or its slip roads, no. Walking back along a live carriageway to set one out is more dangerous than anything the car is doing.
No. A flat tyre is dealt with at the vehicle, so a recovery truck would move a car that is minutes away from being driveable and charge you for the trip.
Only far enough to be out of the traffic. The layout here makes turning a damaged car around awkward, and every extra hundred yards on a flat brings the rim closer to the road.
Yes, at any hour. Get fully onto the shoulder, out of the car on the nearside, and stand well back up the verge. Tell us the junction and the direction of travel when you ring.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes across the town, Houghton Regis and out towards Kensworth and Totternhoe. We give an honest estimate for the more outlying addresses rather than quoting the best case.
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