On a road like Craven Park Road there is no such thing as a safe spot to change a wheel. There is only safe space that somebody makes. Making it is one of the jobs the fitting van does when it arrives, and it is worth knowing about, because it is the reason a mobile fitter working at a kerb is a completely different proposition from you doing the same thing with the tools out of the boot.
The van goes in behind the car, angled slightly out from the kerb, with its lights running. It takes whatever the car would otherwise take and it makes the traffic move out early rather than at the last second. Everything then happens inside the pocket of road between the van and your car, which is where the wheel comes off and where the fitter works. You are not in that pocket and neither is anybody who was travelling with you. All of which is why the answer to should I just do it myself on the High Street is no, whatever tools happen to be in the boot. The tools were never the problem. The road was the problem, and a van parked properly is what solves the road.
Flat tyres in NW10 come in from every direction: a screw picked up on Acton Lane, a valve that has given up overnight, a kerb strike that has let the bead go. The response does not change. The the Acton Lane area phone and the Craven Park phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Park Royal, midday in Stonebridge, the same call either way.
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Harlesden gives a stranded driver a hard choice between a crowded High Street and roads carrying constant traffic in and out of Park Royal, and neither is anywhere to be kneeling beside a wheel. That is not an argument for driving on a flat, though. It is an argument for stopping, getting up onto the pavement and letting a vehicle that is set up for it come and make the space. Nothing in the job needs you anywhere near the traffic.
Constant traffic and the flat on the offside, which is the awkward combination. The van went in behind at an angle and the whole job happened in the space that created. The driver watched from the pavement and never once stood in the road.
There was somewhere to pull clear just up the road from where the car had stopped. We did not ask him to drive to it. We came to the car, because fifty yards on a flat costs more than the inconvenience of working where it sat.
The car had already been parked in a side street when the tyre was found soft, which made the whole thing straightforward. No traffic to manage, no lights needed, just a wheel off and a wheel back on.
Yes, when it is set up properly. The van goes in behind the car as protection and the work happens in the space that creates. That protection is exactly what you do not have standing there with your own jack.
No. Do not drive it anywhere. Tell us what the road is like when you ring and we bring what we need for it. Moving the car is the one decision available to you that can make the bill bigger.
On the pavement, on the far side of your car from the traffic, and back from where we are working. The same goes for anyone travelling with you. Around Harlesden that generally means up on the footway rather than in between the cars.
A car obstructing a road like that does go up the list. Say so when you ring rather than assuming we will work it out. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes and those calls usually land at the shorter end.
Almost always. Where we genuinely cannot get alongside, we park as close as possible and carry the kit to the car, which makes very little difference to how long the job takes.
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