If you are sitting in a car with a flat somewhere off Cowcross Street, the first thing worth knowing is that nothing has happened here that cannot be put right at the kerb. There is no need for a recovery truck and no need for the car to go anywhere at all. Leave it where it stopped, put the hazards on, and let the fitter come to it.
The decision that actually matters now is which side the flat is on. A nearside flat is straightforward, because the wheel faces the pavement, we work with our backs to the kerb, and you can stand on the footway while we do it. An offside flat on Farringdon Road is a different setup, because the wheel faces moving traffic and the space behind us has to be kept clear. Tell us which side it is when you ring and we plan for it before we set off. Either way, get out on the pavement side and wait there rather than in the driver's seat. Sitting in a stationary car in a live lane is the part of this that carries any real risk. The tyre itself is just a job of work.
There are two kinds of flat. One is the slow one you catch on a driveway in Charterhouse Square, down a good few psi since Friday and still holding enough to look fine. Either way you are not left stranded in EC1M and not paying for a recovery truck to move a car that needs one tyre. We are out on Clerkenwell Road at 2am and in Smithfield at 2pm. The Charterhouse Square phone and the Hatton Garden phone ring the same fitter, any hour. EC1M takes in Cowcross Street and Charterhouse Street, and we work the lot.
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Farringdon gives a stranded driver very little to work with. The bays along Charterhouse Street and Cowcross Street are metered or permit and gone by mid morning, the Smithfield approaches are cobbled, and Farringdon Road is no place to be kneeling beside a wheel. So we do not ask you to go and find somewhere better. Tell us where the car stopped and which side has gone down, wait on the pavement, and everything comes to you.
The wheel that had gone was the one facing the traffic, which changes how the job gets set up rather than whether it can be done. The driver waited up on the pavement, we worked with the space behind us protected, and the car never moved from where it stopped.
A driver came back to a metered bay by Smithfield Market and found the front tyre flat with cars parked hard front and rear. There was still enough clearance to jack it where it sat, so nothing had to be shuffled and nobody had to be tracked down to move a car.
A flat found at four in the afternoon with a meeting still running upstairs. We took the registration and a description of the car, found it parked near Charterhouse Square without the driver having to come down, and rang up when the wheel was back on.
No. A recovery truck exists to move a car that cannot be driven at all, and yours drives perfectly well the moment there is a sound tyre on it. We bring the tyre to the car, so there is nothing left for a truck to do.
Better not to if you are in a live lane. Step out on the pavement side, stay on the footway and leave the hazards going. If the car is safely inside a bay off the running lane, sitting in it is fine.
We would rather you did not. A hundred yards on a flat is roughly where the sidewall starts chewing itself apart between the rim and the road, and a tyre that could have been repaired usually stops being repairable somewhere inside that distance.
Give us the make, colour and registration plus the nearest doorway or bay. The EC1M streets are short and mostly one way, so a landmark you can see from the driver's seat is worth more to our driver than a postcode is.
We chock a wheel, jack from the proper lifting point, take the wheel off and inspect the tyre inside and out before saying anything about it. Then you get a straight answer on whether it is repairable, and the job is finished on the spot.
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