If the car is on run-flat tyres, the flat you are dealing with may not look flat at all. That is the entire point of them. A reinforced sidewall holds the shape of the tyre with no air in it, so the only warning you get is often the pressure light and something faintly odd through the steering on Mare Street rather than anything you would notice looking at the car.
The handbook will tell you that you can carry on for a limited distance at a reduced speed, and that is true in roughly the way a fire escape is true. It is for getting off somewhere dangerous, not for finishing your day. The stated distance also assumes the tyre was correctly inflated to start with and went down cleanly, and neither is a safe bet on E8 roads. The part worth knowing is what happens afterwards. Once a run-flat has carried a car with no air in it, it is finished. The sidewall has done the one job it was built for and the tyre cannot be repaired, whatever the puncture itself looks like. So every extra mile spent circling Hackney Central looking for an open garage makes the outcome more certain rather than less. Stopping early is what keeps your options open.
Catching a flat early is worth real money. A tyre that is losing air slowly, spotted while it is still parked up in Clapton, is very often repairable; the same tyre after ten miles of being driven on is scrap. Whether it is Clapton in rush hour or Graham Road at midnight, we answer. On Lower Clapton Road, day or night, Dalston included, arrival across E8 runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Hackney traffic hides a soft tyre very well. Mare Street and Morning Lane rarely let you get above a crawl, so the pull and the noise that would give the game away on an open road never really arrive, and on run-flats there is nothing to see either. If a pressure warning comes up anywhere across E8 or E9, take it at face value, stop in the first side street off Lower Clapton Road or near the Narroway, and let somebody look at it properly.
The tyre still looked round and the car still drove normally, which is exactly how run-flats catch people out. He pulled into a side street to look rather than carrying on towards Clapton, and stopping where he did meant the wheel underneath was untouched.
By the time the car stopped near Homerton the run-flat had been rolling with no air in it long enough for the inner liner to break up. There was nothing to discuss about repairing it. The distance decided that, not the puncture.
A driver near London Fields was certain the car had run-flats because the previous one had. It did not, and the tyre was flat in the ordinary way. Reading the sidewall settled it in about ten seconds and changed what came out of the van.
There is a marking on the sidewall for it, though the letters vary between brands. If you are unsure, tell us the car and read out the full sidewall marking when you ring and we will tell you what you are running on.
Only far enough to reach somewhere safe to stop. It is a get out of trouble allowance rather than a mileage budget, and every mile of it you spend makes the tyre less likely to be repairable and more likely to take the wheel with it.
No. Once it has carried the car with no air in it the sidewall structure is spent, even where the puncture on its own would have been a routine repair on an ordinary tyre. It gets replaced.
On most cars yes, and mixing the two types across an axle is not a good idea. We carry all major brands and can bring the correct type out, so tell us what the car is when you ring.
Out of the bus lane and off the main road if you can manage that at a crawl, then out of the car and onto the pavement. Around Hackney Central the traffic is the hazard rather than the tyre.
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