Two things decide how a flat tyre goes in Esher: where the car has stopped, and what the driver does in the first minute.
On the High Street, along the Portsmouth Road, or in one of the lanes towards Claygate and Oxshott, the situation is calmer but a good deal tighter. High walls and no verge mean there is often nowhere to open a door safely, let alone kneel beside the car. If the tyre is soft but still carrying the rim, roll gently to a wider spot or a car park entrance before stopping for good. If it is flat, leave it exactly where it is.
The temptation on a modern car is to reach for the sealant canister. It has one narrow use: a small nail, central in the tread, enough to move the car a mile or two. It will not touch a cut or a sidewall and it has to be cleaned out again before a proper repair, so if in doubt leave it in the boot.
Stopped in a supermarket car park with a flat and a boot full of shopping is a specific kind of miserable. The car parks around Hinchley Wood are on our regular rounds, as it happens. Tight in Thames Ditton, easy in Weston Green: neither stops the job. Level in Oxshott, sloping in Sandown Park: we set the car straight first.
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Esher's two settings pull in opposite directions. The A3 gives you speed and no room at all; the lanes towards Oxshott and Claygate give you room to stop but nowhere to work, with walls and hedges hard against the carriageway. In both, the safest thing to do is stop early, stand well clear and let the van come, at whatever hour it happens to be.
A driver on the Portsmouth Road felt the steering go vague and pulled into a side road rather than joining the roundabout on a tyre that was nearly flat. Stopping early saved both the wheel and the tyre, and the puncture turned out to be repairable.
A car losing pressure on the dual carriageway came off at Hinchley Wood and stopped in a residential road. The driver waited on the pavement side while we worked. Leaving the A3 before it went right down made the whole job straightforward.
A flat in one of the narrow lanes near Claygate left barely a foot between the car and a brick wall. The tyre was just round enough to allow twelve feet at walking pace to a driveway entrance, and the work was done there instead.
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Get the car and then the people out of harm's way, in that order. Hazards on, as far off the running lane as the surface permits, everybody out on the side away from traffic and behind a barrier if there is one. The tyre can wait a minute; the traffic will not.
Only if the ground is level and solid and you are well clear of moving traffic. On the A3 verge it is not worth it at any price, and on the camber of the Portsmouth Road a jack is not something to trust a car to.
There is a limit printed on the wheel, normally fifty miles an hour, and it applies on the A3 as much as anywhere else. The narrow wheel changes how the car brakes and turns, so treat it as a way of getting home rather than a normal tyre.
It means one tyre is measurably lower than it should be, which may be a puncture, a leaking valve, or simply cold weather affecting all four. If one corner is much lower than the others, assume something is in it and stop somewhere safe to look.
Yes. Multi-storeys, station bays, the roads around Sandown Park, private drives and gated developments are all routine for us. Tell us the level and the bay number or the gate code and the van comes to where the car is standing.
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