Molesey offers two bad options when a tyre goes down: a narrow street with cars parked nose to tail on both sides, or a road like Hampton Court Way where stopping is neither easy nor legal.
If it happens on Bridge Road or on the approach to the bridge itself, keep rolling at low speed until you can turn into a side street, then stop. That short distance is worth the damage it does to the tyre. Sitting in a pinch point with a queue building behind you is not worth anything at all. If the car is already in a bay or on a driveway, leave it precisely where it is.
After that there is very little left to do. Handbrake on, hazards on if you are close to moving traffic, everyone out onto the pavement side, and phone. The bay you are in stays yours, because nothing has to be towed anywhere for the work to happen.
Do not drive it. That applies double if you are thinking of nursing it off the A3050 to somewhere more convenient. We come to the exact spot in East Molesey, get eyes on the real damage, and either repair to standard or fit a replacement from on-board stock, with no recovery bill either way. School run in Kent Town or 1am in Weston Green, we answer the same. Christmas Day in Bridge Road, any day in West Molesey: the line is open.
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East Molesey is not built for roadside repairs. Bridge Road and Walton Road carry visitor traffic for most of the year, the residential streets have parking on both sides, and the ground near the river is not always as level as it looks. Getting the car stationary somewhere legal is the only part worth doing yourself. The rest happens at the kerb.
A driver felt a rear go soft in the queue for Hampton Court Bridge on a Saturday. Rather than stop there, they turned into Palace Road and pulled up outside the houses. Fifty yards at walking pace, and an impossible job became a straightforward one.
The owner assumed the car would have to be recovered and the parking place lost along with it. Neither happened. The tyre was dealt with at the kerb and the space was still theirs when the van pulled away.
A car in Kent Town had a flat and a spare under the floor which turned out to be carrying twelve psi. Spares deflate slowly over years and almost nobody checks them, which is worth knowing before you plan an afternoon around using one.
As far as the first turning where you can stop legally, taken slowly. A short distance on a flat may cost you the tyre, but it will not cost anybody else their afternoon, and it puts the car somewhere the work can be done safely.
On most Molesey streets, no. The roads are narrow, the camber is noticeable and there is rarely a metre of clear space beside a parked car. A jack on a slope with traffic passing that close is the exact situation to avoid.
We would not. Running under-inflated overheats the sidewall and can ruin a tyre that would otherwise have been a twenty minute repair. Park it, tell us the pressure if you know it, and then leave the car alone until somebody arrives.
That is easier rather than harder. Level ground, no passing traffic and room to move around the vehicle. Just mention any access restriction and roughly how tight the approach is when you ring, so the van comes prepared for it.
Not for the whole time, though somebody has to be reachable and able to open it if the locking wheel nut key lives inside. A good number of jobs here are done with the owner indoors and the keys handed over at the door.
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