Thirty to sixty minutes is the honest number, and it is worth explaining what sits behind it, because a wait is much easier to bear once you know what it is made of. Almost all of it is travel. The work at your car is quick by comparison. So the thing that decides your wait is the traffic between our nearest van and wherever you are standing.
Around Ilford that variable is unusually large. The High Road is stop and start for most of the day, Ley Street and Ilford Lane stay congested well into the evening, and if the North Circular is backed up at the Redbridge end then everything feeding into it is too. What we will not do is give you a comfortable number and then arrive late against it. If the roads mean an hour and a quarter, that is what you get told when you ring, so you can decide whether to wait at the car, wait somewhere warm or get on with something else entirely. A number you can plan around is worth more than one that sounds good. And whichever it turns out to be, none of it makes the tyre worse. A car standing still with a flat is not deteriorating while it waits.
A tyre can go flat without ever being punctured. We come to where the car is, Ilford town centre, Cranbrook or anywhere between, get the wheel off and find which it is, then clean and reseat, replace the valve, repair to standard or fit a replacement as the case requires. Level in Seven Kings, sloping in Goodmayes: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Newbury Park or Cranbrook is worth flagging. The IG1 postcode and a street in Gants Hill: that is enough.
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Ilford is one of the more congested corners of East London and the traffic is the reason a wait here is what it is. The High Road is constant stop and start, the Redbridge roundabout feeds you onto the A406 before you have had time to think, and Ley Street does not clear until late. That congestion is exactly why driving on a flat is the worst option on the table. You would be sitting in the same traffic and ruining a wheel while you did it. Park it, get a real arrival time, and spend the half hour on something else.
The A406 was solid and there was no point pretending otherwise. She got the real figure, went and had a coffee, and came back to find the van already working. Nobody spent an hour watching the road for headlights.
The van happened to be closer than expected and arrived inside twenty five minutes. That happens about as often as the other way round, which is precisely why the figure given is a range rather than a promise.
The car was on the drive and there was no reason for anybody to stand next to it. We rang on arrival, did the work and rang again at the end. As far as she was concerned the wait barely existed.
Where the nearest van is and what the traffic is doing between there and you. The work at the car is the short part of it. Around Ilford it is the High Road and the North Circular that decide most of the rest.
Yes, when you ring and again if something changes. We would rather give a number you can plan around than a comforting one you then sit through wondering about.
No. A car standing still with a flat tyre is not deteriorating. Everything that damages a tyre and a wheel comes from driving on it, so the wait costs you time and nothing else.
Yes, provided you are reachable and can get back to the car quickly. Plenty of people around IG1 wait indoors or at home rather than at the kerb, and we ring when the van is there.
Travel times are, and we say so rather than pretending otherwise. What does not change is that we run 24 hours a day, every day of the year, so there is no hour at which nobody is coming.
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