The worry when a tyre goes down around here is usually not the tyre. It is being stationary somewhere that punishes stationary cars. If you are still on the roundabout or on the A501, get off it at the first turning you can take at low speed and stop in the first side street that will hold you. Once the car is out of the traffic stream, the situation stops moving and there is nothing left to hurry. Do not try to make it to a garage. The junction is not something to cross twice on a flat, and the tyre will not survive the attempt.
What happens next is more ordinary than people expect. A van arrives, the fitter chocks a wheel and loosens the nuts before the car is lifted, the wheel comes off and the tyre comes off the rim so the inside of the casing can be looked at properly. If the damage is inside what BS AU 159 allows, the hole is reamed, plugged and patched from the inside and you keep your tyre. If it is not, a matching size comes off the van. Either way the wheel goes back on balanced and torqued to the manufacturer's figure, the pressures are set, and the old casing leaves with us. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, at any hour, typically within 30 to 60 minutes.
Two questions get answered on every flat tyre call, in this order. We come out in EC1V and do exactly that, in Moorfields, the Bunhill Fields area or anywhere between, then repair to standard where the damage sits inside the limits or fit a replacement from the van where it does not. On Great Eastern Street, day or night, Moorfields included, arrival across EC1V runs 30 to 60 minutes. We are out on Great Eastern Street at 2am and in City Road at 2pm. The EC1V postcode and a street in the Bunhill Fields area: that is enough.
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Everything difficult about a flat around Old Street comes from the geography rather than the puncture. The roundabout gives you nowhere to think, the A501 gives you nowhere to stop and the streets behind Bunhill Fields are full by eight in the morning. Getting the car still and out of the traffic is the whole job on your side. The rest happens at the kerb, day or night, with the wheel balanced before you drive on it.
A driver felt the car pulling on the approach and took the next left rather than committing to another lap. Two hundred quiet yards later the car was stopped on a side street and the tyre was still worth repairing.
A flat spotted at lunchtime in a car park off City Road. The keys stayed with reception, the fitter worked on the bay through the afternoon, and the car was ready before the owner came down.
A tyre down at eleven at night with the streets around Featherstone Street empty. The quiet made it an easier job than the same call at nine in the morning would have been, and it was done at the kerb.
Come off at the next exit you can take slowly and stop in the first side street with room. Once you are off the junction you are safe and we can reach you. Do not sit in a live lane waiting for us.
Yes. The fitter works from the van beside your car, and these bays are where most of our Old Street jobs happen. Tell us the street name and roughly which end you are parked at.
Leave the keys with somebody and say which bay the car is in. Plenty of jobs around Goswell Road are done while the owner is upstairs, and you get a call when the wheel is back on.
Common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments ride with us in premium, mid-range and budget. Read the string off the sidewall when you ring and we load the right thing before setting off rather than turning up to look.
Rarely, for a flat. A recovery truck around this junction is slower to arrive, harder to position and leaves your car somewhere you then have to travel to. A tyre fitted where the car already stands is the shorter route.
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