A surprising number of calls start with somebody who is not sure. The car felt odd over the speed bumps along Pitfield Street, the tyre looks a bit low, and they cannot tell whether it is a puncture or their imagination. So here is how to find out with no tools at all.
Crouch down at the front of the car and look at both tyres on that axle together. A tyre with a problem sits differently. The bottom spreads out and bulges where it meets the road, and the gap between the top of the tyre and the wheel arch drops on that side. If one looks fatter at the bottom than its opposite number, that is not your imagination. The other thing worth knowing is that the correct pressure is written on a plate in the driver's door shut, or sometimes inside the fuel flap, and it is often different front to rear. Comparing one tyre against another is a reasonable field test, but the plate is the only thing that gives you the actual number, and if the whole car is low then comparing tells you nothing at all. Either way, if a tyre looks wrong in N1, stop using it and ring.
Flat tyres in N1 come in from every direction: a screw picked up on Hoxton Street, a valve that has given up overnight, a kerb strike that has let the bead go. The response does not change. Whether it is Pitfield Street in rush hour or Old Street at midnight, we answer. On Pitfield Street, day or night, Kingsland Road included, arrival across N1 runs 30 to 60 minutes. N1 takes in the Charles Square area and Whitmore Estate, and we work the lot.
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Hoxton is speed bumps, patched surfaces and cars parked tight into permit bays and estate parking, which is the combination that produces slow quiet punctures rather than dramatic ones. That is why so many get noticed as a tyre that simply looks a bit wrong. Trust the instinct. Crouch down, compare it with the other side, and if there is any doubt at all, leave the car in its bay and ring rather than driving out onto the Kingsland Road to find out.
He thought it might be flat and felt faintly silly ringing about it. It was flat, with a screw through the tread. Nobody has ever been embarrassed by a call that turned out to be a genuine puncture.
The car had not had its pressures looked at in a very long time, so comparing one tyre against another told the owner nothing. The plate in the door shut settled it. One had a nail in it and the other three were simply neglected.
A wide low profile tyre in an estate bay near Charles Square barely changed shape even well down on pressure. Those hide a flat better than anything else on the road. Crouching down and comparing sides was what gave it away.
Crouch at the front or the back of the car and compare the two tyres on that axle. The soft one spreads out at the bottom and sits lower in the arch. It is far easier to see from low down than from standing height.
On a plate in the driver's door shut, sometimes inside the fuel flap, and in the handbook. It usually lists front and rear separately, and often a higher figure again for a fully loaded car.
Yes. Low means air is leaving and the only question is how fast. Driving on it turns a possible repair into a certain replacement, so around Hoxton, where we are minutes away, it is not a gamble worth taking.
It is worth us doing, and we check them as a matter of course before leaving. Underinflated tyres wear badly, use more fuel and handle worse, and most cars we see have at least one that is down.
Yes, and that is where a lot of the N1 work happens. Tell us which block or which bay and whether anything is double parked alongside, and we bring the kit to the car.
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