Eltham feels suburban, and that is exactly what catches people out. The High Street is calm, the streets around Avery Hill and Eltham Park are leafy, and it does not feel like a place where driving a mile on a flat tyre would matter much. It matters just as much here as anywhere. The rubber comes apart at the same rate on a quiet road as on a busy one, the rim starts cutting through after the same few hundred yards, and the A20 Sidcup Road along the southern side is a genuine dual carriageway with all the speed that implies and nowhere to stop when things go wrong.
So treat it as seriously as you would in the middle of town. Stop, hazards on, and leave the car. On the High Street or one of the residential roads around Mottingham and New Eltham that is easy enough, since a parked car with a flat is nobody's crisis, and the tight parking that makes changing a wheel yourself impossible is no obstacle to a van working from the road side. If you are out on the A20, get onto the nearest safe verge or slip road and stand well back from the carriageway. Ring us with the road and the direction and we bring the tyre to the car.
The other three tyres get a look while we are with the car, and it is not a sales exercise. The job itself is the same either way: we come to you in SE9, take the wheel off, work out whether the flat is a repairable puncture or a finished tyre, and deal with it there. Level in Avery Hill, sloping in Mottingham: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Avery Hill or Mottingham is worth flagging. SE9 takes in Mottingham and Well Hall, and we work the lot.
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Eltham has a village feel and a dual carriageway along the bottom of it, which is an awkward combination. The A20 Sidcup Road runs fast towards the M25 in one direction and central London in the other with no safe place to stop, while the High Street stays busy with buses and shoppers and the roads around Mottingham and Eltham Park are narrow and well parked. The suburban calm is real, but it does not protect a tyre with no air in it. Stopping promptly and letting a van come out works exactly the same here as it does on a main road, and it costs a great deal less than the alternative.
The driver reasoned that the roads around New Eltham were calm enough to risk it. The tyre disagreed. It came apart within half a mile and the wheel needed inspecting afterwards.
A blowout on the dual carriageway with very little room. The car got fully off the running lanes and everybody stood well back from it, which is the whole of what you can usefully do on the A20.
Steady traffic towards Shooters Hill keeps the gutters supplied with screws. This one leaked slowly and was found while parked, so the car had not been driven on it and the repair was still available.
The tyre does not know how quiet the road is. It comes apart at the same rate, and the rim starts cutting through after the same few hundred yards, so a calm suburban mile costs exactly what a busy one does.
Only to get fully clear of the running lanes. After that, leave it, get out on the side away from traffic and stand well back. The Sidcup Road is fast and there is nowhere comfortable to be beside it.
No. A tyre is dealt with at the vehicle, so a truck would only be moving a car that is minutes from being driveable and leaving you to collect it later.
Yes. We work from the road side of the car in the bay it is in, so tight parking on the High Street or the suburban streets around Mottingham makes no difference.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, day or night, whether that is a driveway in New Eltham, a workplace near the High Street or a pull-in off the A20.
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