The instinct in a street off Stroud Green Road is to move the car. It has stopped half across a permit bay, or somewhere it plainly should not be, and every minute it sits there feels like the problem getting worse. Resist that. On a flat tyre, moving the car is the only thing available to you that can turn a routine job into an expensive one, and a parking ticket is a much cheaper outcome than a wheel.
What we need from a spot is space rather than legality. A wheel comes off sideways, so there has to be roughly the width of an open door beside the flat and clear room to get a jack under the sill. In the terraces around Fonthill Road and Wells Terrace that is genuinely the only question, and it is one you can answer for us on the phone before we leave. Tell us whether the car is hard against a wall, tight up to the car in front, or sitting on a corner. If somebody is going to need to shift a vehicle we would far rather know that now than discover it on arrival. Everything else about the job happens exactly where the car already is.
The instinct is to nurse it to a garage, and it is usually the wrong one. Driveways in Woodberry Down, side streets, car parks and the hard shoulder are all normal ground for us. The wheel comes off in Woodberry Down, not on a ramp in Crouch End. Nothing is towed out of Fonthill Road or Wells Terrace; the work finishes there.
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Around Finsbury Park the parking is the hard part of any flat tyre. Seven Sisters Road gives you nowhere to stop at all, the side streets off Blackstock Road and Stroud Green Road are permit bays that filled up before nine, and the Green Lanes traffic never leaves a gap. So the advice runs against the instinct. Do not go hunting for a better space. Tell us where the car is and whether anything is blocking the flat side, then stay put.
Bumper to bumper at both ends and the flat on the road side. There was still enough clearance to jack it and swing the wheel out, which there usually is. The driver had spent an hour trying to find whoever owned the car in front and had never needed to.
The car had stopped over the line and the driver was more worried about the warden than the tyre. We got there and dealt with it, and the arithmetic holds: driving a hundred yards to a legal bay would have cost far more than any ticket does.
The nearside wheel had gone down with the car parked tight against a wall, which is the one arrangement that really does not work. Because he mentioned it on the phone we arrived expecting it, and rolling a car forward a couple of feet by hand is a very different thing from driving it.
No. A ticket costs a fraction of a wheel, and driving on a flat is exactly how a rim ends up bent. If the car is causing a real obstruction, say so when you ring and we will treat it as a priority, but leave it standing.
About the width of an open car door beside the flat tyre, plus clear access under the sill for the jack. Cars parked close in front and behind are rarely an issue. A wall or a high kerb tight against the flat side is.
Rolling it by hand with the brake off is a different thing from driving it and does very little at that distance. Do it with help, on the level, never on a slope. It is power through the wheel that ruins tyres, not a shove.
Not at all. We get the van as close as it will go and carry what we need over to the car. Half the streets around N4 are permit only and we are working in them most weeks.
Only if the car has to be opened for a wheel nut key or for something stored under the boot floor. Otherwise you can hand them over or stay with the car while we work, whichever suits your afternoon better.
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