On the lanes between Marlow and the river there is often not enough width for two cars, let alone one car standing still. So a flat tyre out that way brings a second problem with it, which is the queue that starts forming behind you within about a minute and the pressure that comes with knowing you are the reason for it.
Resist that pressure. It is the thing most likely to make you do something expensive. What you can reasonably do is get the car as far to the near side as the lane allows, put the hazards on, and if there is a gateway or a wider stretch within a very short distance, ease into it at walking pace. What you should not do is set off looking for a passing place because people are waiting. A single track lane is exactly the sort of road that looks like it must have somewhere to pull in just around the corner and then does not for half a mile. Most drivers, once they understand what has happened, will reverse or find a way past without much fuss. The half hour of inconvenience belongs to the lane rather than to you, and it is a great deal cheaper than a wheel.
The reason we come to you rather than the other way round is that a flat tyre is the one fault you genuinely cannot drive to a garage with. So the service is built around the car staying still: van, stock, jack, balancer and lighting, sent to wherever it has stopped, on the A404 included. A Higginson Park cul-de-sac or a Munday Dean main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Munday Dean or a narrow bay on the A4094 is usually workable.
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Marlow packs a fast dual carriageway, a tight High Street and a network of narrow river lanes into a small area, and each of them punishes a flat tyre in its own way. On the A404 the problem is speed. In the town it is parking. Out on the lanes towards Little Marlow and along the river it is width, and the pressure of a queue behind you. None of those is a reason to keep driving. Get as far over as the road allows, stop, and let us come and sort it out.
Nowhere at all to stand where the car had stopped, but a field entrance just ahead of it. He eased into that at walking pace and everything afterwards was straightforward, including for the traffic behind him.
No gateway and no wider stretch, so the car stayed put with its hazards on. Two drivers reversed, one got past on the verge, and the wheel was changed in about twenty minutes with nobody much put out.
The queue was building and the temptation won. He drove the best part of a mile looking for somewhere better, which was a mile more than the tyre had left in it and quite enough to mark the rim.
Only if there is one in sight. The lanes around Marlow rarely deliver what they seem to promise, and driving half a mile on a flat out of politeness costs you a tyre and possibly a wheel.
Hazards on, and if you can safely speak to the driver behind from the pavement side, tell them what has happened. Most people reverse or find a way round. Nobody expects a car with a flat tyre to keep moving.
Usually. If it genuinely cannot pull in alongside, we park at the nearest sensible spot and carry the kit to the car. Tell us how wide it is when you ring and the approach gets planned around that.
No. Stand off the carriageway on the field side, behind your car rather than in front of it. Directing traffic on a blind lane is a far bigger risk than the delay it would save anybody.
Yes, across Marlow, Little Marlow, Munday Dean and the lanes around them, day or night. A driveway is the easiest job we do and a narrow lane is a routine one.
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