By far the best flat tyre is the one you find while the car is still on the drive. It costs you a morning's inconvenience rather than a tyre, a wheel and a wait at the roadside, and it is a great deal more common than people expect, because most punctures deflate a car overnight rather than at speed.
Which makes a thirty second habit worth having. As you walk up to the car, look at the two tyres on the side you are approaching, then glance across at the far side as you get in. You are not measuring anything. You are looking for one tyre that sits differently from the others, fatter where it meets the ground or lower in the arch. That is all there is to it. On the driveways around Lower Morden and Morden Park it takes no time at all, and it catches the thing that would otherwise catch you on the A24 twenty minutes later. If you do spot one, the right response is to leave the car exactly where it is and ring, rather than setting off to see how it goes. A car on its own drive is the easiest and cheapest place in the world to have a flat 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 SM4, take the wheel off and find the leak properly. Same tools in St Helier as in Ravensbury, same on every call. Valve in St Helier, balance in Ravensbury, pressures before we go.
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Morden is a junction town where the A24 and the A297 meet and the traffic rarely eases, so the difference between finding a flat at home and finding it out on London Road is a large one. The residential streets around Lower Morden and the driveways off Central Road are the easy place for this to happen. Thirty seconds of looking at the tyres before you get in is what decides which of those two versions of the morning you end up with.
Noticed on the way to the car at half seven and dealt with by nine. Nothing had been driven on and the tyre repaired without argument. That is exactly what finding it early buys you.
He had seen that it looked low and decided to chance the run towards Sutton. It went properly in traffic on London Road, which is a considerably worse place to be than his own driveway had been.
She thought one tyre looked different from the rest and could not tell for certain. It was down by a fair margin with a nail in it. Ringing about something you are unsure of always beats driving off to find out.
One tyre sitting differently from the others. Fatter at the bottom where it meets the ground, or the arch sitting lower on that corner. You do not need a gauge to see it, only a glance from a couple of feet away.
Yes. Slightly low means air is leaving and the only unknown is how quickly. Dealing with it on the drive is easy. Dealing with it on London Road in traffic is not.
No. Whatever made the hole is still in there and the air will leave again, usually at a worse moment. If the car is at home you are in the best position you could be in, so use it rather than giving it away.
Most of the time. Punctures usually leak slowly and do their work overnight, which is why so many of our calls come from driveways at breakfast rather than from roadsides.
Yes, and that is where a good share of our SM4 work happens. Tell us where the car is standing and whether anything is parked in front of it, and we come to the house.
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