Rain does not change the tyre and it changes everything else. It makes the surface on the Kilburn High Road slicker for the traffic going past you, it makes you harder to see standing at a kerb, it makes the ground under a jack less predictable, and it makes people rush. That last one is the dangerous part, because rushing at the roadside is how the avoidable things happen.
So treat the weather as a reason to do less rather than more. In heavy rain or hard cold, the answer is not to hurry the decision but to get out of it. If the car is safely parked, sit in it. If there is a doorway or a shop within reach and the car can be left, use them and take the phone with you. Do not attempt a wheel yourself in the wet on a slope or on a soft edge, because water in the ground is precisely what turns a solid looking surface into one that gives way under a jack. When we arrive we work in it perfectly happily and bring our own lighting, so nothing about the weather changes what happens to the car. It only changes where you ought to be while it happens, and the answer to that is somewhere dry.
Topping it up at a petrol station every few days is not a fix, it is a countdown. Every one of those journeys is done under-inflated, and under-inflation is what wrecks the casing from the inside where nobody can see it. A slow puncture caught in the first week is usually a straightforward repair; the same puncture after a month often is not. So it is worth ringing while it is still a small problem: we come to the car in NW6, take the wheel off and find the leak properly. On the drive in Brondesbury, in a car park at work or at the kerb, whichever suits.
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The Kilburn High Road is one of the busiest corridors in London and it gets no calmer when the weather turns. There is nowhere safe to stop along the A5 itself, the streets off Willesden Lane and Brondesbury Road are permit bays parked tight, and standing about in the wet on either is nobody's idea of a plan. Get the car stopped, get yourself somewhere dry, and let the van and the weather be our problem.
The car was in a permit space and perfectly safe, so she stayed indoors and came down when we rang. There is no benefit whatsoever to standing in the rain watching a wheel come off a car.
Hazards on, driver back inside the car with the doors shut and the engine off, well in against the kerb. Warm and visible beats cold and helpful on a night like that, every time.
He had considered doing it himself and thought better of it once he looked at where the jack would have to sit. Water had been standing in that gutter for days. It was the right call and it took him about ten seconds to make it.
Yes, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in whatever it happens to be doing. We carry our own lighting and work in the wet routinely. Weather affects travel times more than it affects the work itself.
If it is parked safely away from traffic, yes, that is the sensible place to be. If you are close to a live lane, being dry is not worth it and you need to be out and well back instead.
Considerably, which is one reason we would rather you did not attempt it. Wet ground gives way under a jack, wet hands slip on a brace, and passing drivers see you later than they would in the dry.
It can affect the drive, and if it does you get a realistic time rather than an optimistic one. It does not affect how long the wheel takes once we are with you.
Yes, with the van set up behind the car for protection and light. The A5 is busy and fast in poor visibility, which is another good reason for you to be waiting somewhere other than beside your own car.
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