Cars that sit still develop problems of their own, and a tyre that was fine three weeks ago can be flat when you come back to it with nothing having gone into it at all. A second car parked on a drive in Southcott, a car left while you were away, one that only goes out at weekends. All of them lose air in ways a daily driver does not.
Part of it is simply time. Every tyre loses a small amount of pressure a month through the rubber itself, which is invisible on a car you drive and check and adds up on one you do not. Part of it is the valve, which perishes with age and does not care whether the car is moving. And part of it is where the tyre meets the rim, because corrosion builds up on the seating surface of an alloy while it stands, particularly through a salted winter, until air starts creeping past the bead. That last one catches people out because there is nothing to find in the tread at all. So if a car has been standing and one tyre is down, do not assume you have run over something, and do not drive it round the block to find out. Ring, and the valve and the seating get looked at along with the tyre.
Topping it up at a petrol station every few days is not a fix, it is a countdown. So it is worth ringing while it is still a small problem: we come to the car in Leighton Buzzard, take the wheel off and find the leak properly. Whether it is Southcott in rush hour or the A4012 at midnight, we answer. On the A418, day or night, Billington included, arrival across Bedfordshire runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Leighton Buzzard has a lot of cars that are not used every day, on the estates and out towards Billington and Heath and Reach, and those are the ones that produce the mysterious flats. Nothing has been run over and there is nothing in the tread to find, which makes people doubt themselves. Do not doubt it and do not drive it round to check. The valve and the rim seating are as likely as the tyre, and all three get looked at when the wheel comes off on your own drive.
Back from a trip to one flat tyre and no obvious cause. There was nothing in the tread whatsoever. The bead seat had corroded and air had been passing between the tyre and the rim, which is a very different job from a puncture.
A car used a handful of times a year. The rubber valve had hardened and cracked at the base, which is an age problem rather than a mileage one. Ten minutes of work and it held pressure again.
He wanted to know whether it was genuinely flat, so he took it a few hundred yards around Planets Estate. It was genuinely flat. The tyre did not come back from that experiment, and it had very nearly not needed replacing at all.
Often nothing has punctured it. Tyres lose a little pressure over time on their own, valves perish with age, and corrosion where the tyre seats on the wheel lets air creep past. All three happen faster on a car that sits still.
Usually. A perished valve gets replaced, and a corroded bead seat is cleaned back and the tyre reseated. Both are ordinary jobs and both are invisible until the tyre comes off the rim.
You can put air in to test it, but do not drive on it in the meantime. If it goes down again over a day or two you have your answer, and you have not spent a tyre finding it out.
It can flatten the shape slightly where the weight has been resting, which usually settles once the car has been driven and warmed through. Age and cracking in the sidewall are the more serious problems on a car that stands.
Yes, across Leighton Buzzard and Linslade including Southcott, Planets, Grovebury and out towards Heath and Reach. A car on a drive is the easiest job we do.
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