A tyre that was fine on Thursday evening and flat on Friday morning has usually been going down for most of the week. Slow punctures do their real work while a car is parked, because a tyre leaking through a nail hole loses air faster standing cold than it does warm and rolling. That is why so many Finchley drivers meet this problem on their own driveway rather than out on the road. Awkward as the morning becomes, that is by far the best version of it.
It also makes the temptation obvious. The car is at home, there is a compressor a few minutes away, and putting air in and getting on with the day feels like the practical answer. It is not. Air going in does nothing to close the hole, and a tyre that has sat flat overnight has had its sidewall folded over on itself where the weight of the car pressed it down onto the rim. Pumping it back up hides that fold rather than undoing it. If you are standing on your own drive with a car that has not moved, you are in the strongest position anyone with a flat tyre can be in. Leave it exactly there and we come to the house.
A flat is either a warning or a failure, and it is worth knowing which one you have got. That is what happens when we arrive in Woodside Park or wherever the car is standing, and you get the verdict before anything is charged for. Nothing is towed out of Church End or Woodside Park; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Church End, and the same on Ballards Lane.
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Most flats around Finchley are found standing still rather than at speed, on a drive off Regents Park Road or in a bay near Finchley Central, and that is the version worth having. Nothing has been driven on, nothing has been wrecked, and there is no hurry beyond your own morning. Leave the car where it sits and we come out across N3 and N12 rather than you nursing it anywhere on a soft tyre.
Fine the night before, sitting on the rim by seven. A screw had been in the tread for days quietly letting air past. Because the car had not been driven a yard on it, the tyre was still repairable, which would not have been true after a run down Ballards Lane.
The driver had been putting air in every couple of days and hoping it would settle. The hole was small enough to allow that and big enough to make it permanent. We came to the house, got the wheel off and dealt with it properly rather than selling him another week of the same.
Twenty past eight, one flat tyre and two children already belted into the back. The car stayed on the drive, the children went back indoors, and it was done inside the hour with nobody standing at a roadside.
We would rather you did not, and there is no need to. Whatever made the hole is still in it, so the air goes straight back out again, usually quicker the second time. Leave the car where it is and we come to the driveway.
Probably not much of one. The system waits until pressure has dropped a fair way before it says anything, so by the time a light appears you are usually well under where you should be. It tells you there is a problem, not how long it has been building.
No, standing still is much kinder to it. The damage comes from rolling. What a night sitting flat does is crease the sidewall where the rim has pressed into it, and that crease is worth inspecting before the wheel goes back on.
That is most of what we do. A driveway in West Finchley or Church End is easier for us than a kerb on the High Road, because there is space to work in and nobody is standing anywhere near passing traffic.
Not necessarily. If the car is on the drive and we can get at the wheel, plenty of people leave us to it and pay by card once it is finished. Just tell us where the car sits and whether anything is parked in front of it.
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