If the tyre has gone down while you are moving on the A404(M) or coming off the M4 at junction 8/9, the first five minutes matter more than anything else.
The next question is usually the spare. If the car carries a full size wheel, you are on level ground away from the traffic and you are confident with the jack, there is nothing wrong with fitting it. If it is a space saver, or you are on a slope in Boyn Hill, or the car is a heavy SUV sitting on a soft verge, leave it alone. A jack slipping is a far worse afternoon than an hour of waiting.
What you should not do is drive on it. Even a mile at low speed breaks up the inner liner and turns a repairable puncture into a scrapped tyre, and on an alloy it usually costs you the rim as well.
Do not drive it. That applies double if you are thinking of nursing it off the A404(M) to somewhere more convenient. We come to the exact spot in Maidenhead, get eyes on the real damage, and either repair to standard or fit a replacement from on-board stock, with no recovery bill either way. Whether it is Furze Platt in rush hour or the A404(M) at midnight, we answer. On Bath Road, day or night, Bray included, arrival across Berkshire runs 30 to 60 minutes.
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Maidenhead gives you very few good places to be standing beside a stranded car. The ring road keeps moving, the A404(M) has traffic joining at speed, and the residential grids around Furze Platt are too narrow to work in safely with a jack. Tell us where you managed to stop and stay clear of the vehicle. The van carries the tyre, the tools and the balancer out to you.
A driver felt the steering go heavy on the approach to junction 8/9 and coasted onto the slip road rather than braking in lane. The car was well clear of moving traffic by the time we arrived, and the tyre was flat but the rim had not been run on.
A family on the A308 Braywick Road had a space saver and a jack, but also a full boot and two children standing on the verge. They waited instead. We fitted a proper replacement at the roadside and the space saver went back under the floor unused.
A car parked outside a house in Cox Green was sitting visibly low on one corner, and the owner had planned to drive it to a garage on the A4. We came to the driveway instead and took the wheel off there, which saved a tyre that was still repairable.
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No, and short distances are how most repairable tyres get destroyed. Running without air lets the liner break up and the sidewall fold under the rim, so even a mile at walking pace can turn a puncture into a replacement, plus a damaged alloy.
If it is a full size wheel, the ground is firm and level and you are well away from moving traffic, that is a reasonable thing to do. On a slope, on a soft verge, or with a space saver you are unsure about, waiting for us is the safer call.
Get everyone out on the side away from the traffic and behind a barrier or fence if there is one, then stand well back from the car. Tell us exactly where you are when you ring, including your direction of travel, and call the police if you feel exposed.
Sometimes, briefly, and it makes the eventual repair harder. Sealant coats the inside of the tyre and has to be cleaned out before anything will bond to it. If we are coming out to you anyway, leave the can in the boot.
Where the car is and whether it is somewhere safe, the size code from the tyre sidewall if you can read it, and whether the tyre went down slowly or all at once. That tells us what to load before we set off towards you.
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