The A312 through Feltham does not slow down for a car with a flat, and neither does the Great South West Road. If a tyre has gone on either of them, the useful order of events is hazards on first, out of the car on the passenger side second, phone third. The hazards are not a formality. They are the only thing telling the driver coming up behind that the car in front has stopped for a reason rather than for a queue.
Once you are out, put distance between yourself and the car. Standing at the back corner to peer at the wheel puts you in exactly the place a following vehicle ends up if it misjudges the gap, so get up onto the verge or the footway and look from there instead. In the dark, or in rain blowing across from the Heathrow side, stand further back than feels necessary. We would far rather turn up and find you well clear with the car sitting there on its hazards than find you crouched by the wheel working out how bad it is. We can tell you how bad it is when we arrive, and it will not have got any worse for waiting.
The first cold snap of the year fills the diary with flats that are not flats. Where there is real damage, the wheel comes off on the drive in North Feltham and it is repaired to standard or replaced from stock, on the spot. Same tools in Bedfont as in Hatton, same on every call. Valve in Hatton, balance in Hanworth, pressures before we go.
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Around Feltham the main roads are more of a problem than the puncture is. The Causeway and Hanworth Road carry constant traffic between Heathrow, Hounslow and the M3, while the residential streets in Lower Feltham and North Feltham are parked so tightly that there is often no room to work at the kerb anyway. Whichever of those you have stopped on, the answer is the same. Stay clear of the traffic and let the tyre come to the car.
The driver got the car as far left as the surface allowed and then did the sensible thing, which was to leave it alone and get clear. We arrived to find him standing on the verge well back from it. The wheel took twenty minutes and nobody spent any of that time near the traffic.
A tyre let go just as the light went. Side lights on their own do not do much at that hour, so the hazards stayed on throughout and we set up with our own lighting. Being seen mattered more to how that job went than anything we did to the tyre.
A car went soft on the approach to the crossing near the station, which is about the worst place in Feltham to become stationary. The driver rolled clear of the barriers at walking pace rather than trying to reach Bedfont, and that short crawl was the one sensible exception to leaving it where it dies.
Get further away from the car. Hazards warn people about the car, not about you. On the A30 or the A312 the safe place is off the carriageway completely, behind whatever kerb or verge there is, facing the oncoming side so you can see what is happening.
Only at walking pace and only far enough to clear a running lane or a crossing. You will pay for it in tyre and possibly wheel. A car sitting still in a live lane on the Great South West Road is a far bigger problem than a ruined tyre.
No, and it is better switched off. Handbrake on, engine off, keys with you. If it is cold, that is a reason to stand somewhere sheltered, not a reason to sit inside a car parked on the edge of a fast road.
Yes. We work 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and a car stopped on a road like that goes towards the front of the queue rather than the back of it. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes.
Bring them out on the passenger side and take them well back from the road with you. If there is genuinely nowhere off the carriageway to stand, say so when you ring and our controller will talk you through the safest option for that particular spot.
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