There is a version of this that the usual advice never covers. The tyre goes while you are sitting in stationary traffic and there is nowhere at all to go. Around Clarence Street and on the approaches to Kingston Bridge that is a realistic afternoon. You are boxed in on every side, the car in front is not moving, and pulling over is not available because there is nothing to pull over into.
The answer is that you wait, and you make yourself obvious. Hazards on straight away, so that when the queue does move the drivers behind have already understood that you are not going with it. Stay in the car for the moment, because in a solid queue you are safer inside than picking your way between bumpers. When a gap appears, take the first thing that gets you out of the running lane, even if it heads the wrong way entirely, and stop there. What you must not do is use that movement to make progress towards home. The distance you cover in stationary traffic on a flat is small, which is the one piece of good news here, but the moment the queue clears and you find yourself doing thirty on the A308 you have spent the tyre and started on the wheel.
The first cold snap of the year fills the diary with flats that are not flats. Where there is real damage, the wheel comes off on the drive in Norbiton and it is repaired to standard or replaced from stock, on the spot. Whether it is Canbury in rush hour or Clarence Street at midnight, we answer. On Kingston Bridge, day or night, Coombe included, arrival across KT1 runs 30 to 60 minutes. The KT1 postcode and a street in Kingston town centre: that is enough.
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Kingston's road layout is unforgiving to a car that has stopped working. The gyratory rarely flows, Kingston Bridge is a permanent pinch point over the Thames, and Richmond Road carries heavy traffic out towards Ham. If a tyre lets go in the middle of that, the honest advice is not to force a solution. Hazards on, sit tight while nothing is moving, then take the very first exit out of the traffic and stop there. Wherever that turns out to be across KT1 or KT2, the van will find it.
Nothing moved for six or seven minutes and there was nowhere for him to go. Hazards on, stayed put, then took the first turning that appeared and stopped in it. That is exactly the right sequence for a queue.
She came out of the gyratory at the first opportunity rather than completing the loop, which meant stopping somewhere less convenient and keeping a wheel that was still perfectly good.
The traffic cleared and the temptation was obvious, so he carried on the best part of a mile towards Norbiton. The tyre had survived the queue and did not survive the mile. Standing still had cost it almost nothing.
Hazards on immediately, stay in the car while everything around you is stationary, and take the first opportunity to get out of the running lane. Then stop, get out on the pavement side and ring.
Barely. Damage comes from rolling, so a car stopped in traffic is doing very little to itself. It is what happens when the queue clears that matters, which is why the plan wants deciding while you are still stationary.
No. Walking between vehicles in a live queue is not safe and the hazards already do that job. Stay in the car until you are out of the traffic and parked somewhere you can open a door safely.
Take it. The direction does not matter in the slightest. Getting out of the traffic matters, and we come to wherever you end up, whether that is Canbury, Hampton Wick or a side street off Richmond Road.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, and the congestion around the town centre is the main variable. If the bridge or the gyratory is backed up and it is going to run longer, you get told when you ring.
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