The Western Avenue is the worst place in Northolt to lose a tyre, because for much of its run through here there is hatching and a slip road rather than anything you could call a refuge.
Off the fast road the clock runs slower. In the streets around Yeading Lane, Mandeville Road or Northolt Village there is time to look properly. Press the tyre with your foot: still round and firm enough to hold the rim clear means you can creep at walking pace to a wider spot. Sitting on the rim means you stop there, because every yard beyond that chews the inner liner and threatens the wheel too.
Then the boot. Most cars sold in the last decade carry a sealant kit rather than a spare, and sealant does nothing for a cut, a shoulder or a tyre that has already gone flat. Having neither is normal, and it is what the van is for.
Waiting at the roadside with a flat is mostly about not being in the way. Get as far off the carriageway as you safely can, hazards on, and everybody out and behind a barrier if there is one. A West End driveway is our workshop, and so is a Yeading kerb. Old tyres leave Greenford Green, Mandeville and Greater London with us, every time.
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Northolt gives you two quite different versions of this. On the A40 the problem is exposure, and the answer is to get everybody away from the car and let us come to it. In the estates off Mandeville Road and Yeading Lane the problem is space, with permit parking both sides and no room to work from the road. Neither is a reason to keep driving on a flat.
A driver heading west felt the car pull hard and got it onto the widest piece of nearside before the slip. We asked him to wait up behind the barrier rather than by the vehicle. A piece of steel had gone through, though the rim survived because he stopped promptly.
A car in Yeading had a two inch cut across the shoulder and a driver who had already emptied a sealant canister into it. Nothing would have sealed that. We cleaned the mess out of the tyre, showed him the cut and fitted a replacement.
A resident in South Harrow came out to a completely flat offside front with cars nose to tail at either end of the space. There was no room to swing a jack from the road side, so we worked from the pavement side and left the car exactly where it was parked.
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No further than the next safe place to stop. Every mile at low pressure heats the sidewall and destroys the inner liner, and what would have been a repair becomes a purchase. Get off the A40, park somewhere sensible and ring from there.
Away from the vehicle and away from its traffic side, behind a barrier or a fence where one exists. On the Western Avenue that means up the bank rather than on the verge beside the car. Take keys and phone with you and leave the hazards running.
If there is somewhere genuinely safe to work, yes. If the car has stopped in a live lane or somewhere with no refuge at all, the honest answer is that it needs recovering off first, and we would tell you that rather than send a van into a dangerous spot.
For a limited distance and at a reduced speed, which is printed on the wheel itself and is usually fifty miles an hour. It is a device for getting you off the road, not a tyre, and it should not still be on the car a month later, which is what tends to happen.
Only for a small nail in the middle of the tread when you need to move the car a short distance. It will not seal a cut or a sidewall, and the sealant has to be washed out of the tyre and off the pressure sensor before any proper repair can be made.
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