There is a wheel under the boot floor of a lot of cars that is not the answer people think it is. On most modern cars it is a space saver: a narrow, restricted speed wheel that changes how the car brakes and steers, and one that has usually been quietly losing pressure since the day the car was built. Fitting it at the side of a road you should not be standing next to, in order to reach a garage that may be shut, leaves you with a compromised car and a punctured tyre still to deal with. That is a lot of effort to arrive back at the same problem. Around Oxford it is worse than average, because the bus gates and access restrictions mean the route to anywhere is the ring road, and a restricted speed wheel on the A4142 is not where you want to be.
So the better move is to leave the car alone. Stay where you have stopped, whether that is a park and ride bay at Redbridge, a drive in Iffley or a lay-by off the A40, and let the tyre come to you. The fitter deals with the actual tyre rather than a temporary version of the problem, balances the wheel on the van and torques it back on properly. We are out 24 hours a day through the year and usually with you inside 30 to 60 minutes.
Do not drive it. That applies double if you are thinking of nursing it off the M40 to somewhere more convenient. We come to the exact spot in Oxford, 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. Valve in Iffley, balance in Cowley, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Headington, not on a ramp in Witney.
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Oxford punishes an unnecessary journey more than most cities. The centre is ringed with restrictions, the ring road is the only real way across and the park and ride sites are a long walk from anywhere useful. That makes limping somewhere on a flat or on a space saver a poor trade in a place where the driving is already awkward. Cowley, Jericho, Botley or a verge off the A40, the van comes to the car.
A driver came back to Thornhill to find a tyre flat and a bus load of people behind them. The car stayed in its bay, the ticket carried on running, and the wheel was off and back on before the next bus in.
A flat in Headington where the space saver came out and turned out to be soft itself. It was a wasted twenty minutes on a wet verge. The permanent tyre went on where the car sat instead.
A tyre going down on the approach to the A4142 with a driver deciding whether to commit. Pulling in before joining it was the right call, and the casing was clean enough to repair.
Usually not worth it. It is a restricted speed wheel, it alters the way the car handles, and the punctured tyre is still sitting there afterwards. We would rather come to the car and sort the real tyre.
We would leave it in the boot. Sealant coats the inside of the casing, and all of that has to come out again before anybody can mend the tyre properly. It tends to pack itself around the pressure sensor on the way past.
Yes. Redbridge and Thornhill are regular stops for us, and the car does not need to be moved out of its bay. Give us the row and a description of the car.
Yes, day or night. Get as far off the live lane as you safely can, stand well away from the traffic side of the vehicle, and tell us the direction you were heading in when you ring.
No. Everything happens where the vehicle is standing. The tyre goes on, the wheel is balanced, the pressures come off the plate in the door shut and the old casing goes with us.
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