There is a skinny spare under the boot floor of plenty of cars around Golders Green, and at half past eight in the morning with the junction already backing up it looks like the answer. It usually is not. A space saver is a restricted speed wheel on a narrow tread, it changes how the car brakes and how it steers, and that shows up most on cars running wide tyres at the front. On top of all that it has generally been lying under the boot quietly losing pressure every month since the car was built.
Then there is the half of it people forget while they are standing in the road. Fitting the spare does nothing about the puncture. You are still going to be arranging a tyre, only now you are doing it later, from a car that cannot be driven properly, with a punctured wheel rolling about in the boot. If the car is somewhere it can safely sit for half an hour, leaving the flat where it is and having the real tyre brought to it is quicker and actually finishes the job. There is a genuine exception. If you are somewhere unsafe, you have a full size matching spare and the ground suits a jack, use it. That is a completely different object from a space saver.
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 Hampstead Garden Suburb or wherever the car is standing, and you get the verdict before anything is charged for. Whether it is Golders Hill in rush hour or North End Road at midnight, we answer. On the North Circular, day or night, Temple Fortune included, arrival across NW11 runs 30 to 60 minutes. The NW11 postcode and a street in Brent Cross: that is enough.
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Golders Green is built around one very busy crossroads and almost everything funnels through it. Finchley Road, Golders Green Road and the A502 all meet by the station, the North Circular sits just beyond, and none of it is anywhere to be kneeling by a wheel with the boot lid up. That is the real argument against the space saver around here. Leave the car standing, keep out of the traffic and have the correct tyre brought to it.
The space saver went on at the roadside and was down to nothing within a couple of miles, because it had been sitting untouched under the boot floor for six years. He rang us from the second place he stopped, which was no further along than the first.
A driver stuck close to the junction decided against attempting a wheel change in that traffic and waited instead. It was the right call. There was nowhere safe to kneel on that stretch, and the wait turned out shorter than the change would have taken him.
A 4x4 parked on a quiet street in Hampstead Garden Suburb carried a proper matching spare and had a driveway to work on. He fitted it himself, which was entirely sensible, and we came later to sort the damaged tyre with none of it being an emergency.
There is a speed limit stamped on the wheel itself and it is there for a reason. Beyond the speed, the narrow tread lengthens braking distances and changes how the car behaves in the wet, which matters more near the North Circular than the number does.
Usually not. By the time the boot is unloaded, the car is up and the wheel is swapped, the van is often already there. You would then still have a punctured tyre to deal with and a wheel taking up the boot.
That is completely normal these days and it changes nothing about the call. Most cars come with a compressor and a bottle of sealant instead of a wheel. Leave both of them alone and we bring an actual tyre to the car.
Because it coats the inside of the tyre and the pressure sensor along with it, and it turns a tyre that could have been inspected and repaired into one that has to be replaced. It exists for getting off a motorway, not for a street in NW11.
Yes, and a lot of what we do around Golders Green is in workplace parking or on a residential street while the driver is indoors getting on with something else. Tell us where the car sits and we get on with it.
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