A car on a slope with a flat tyre is a different problem from a car on the flat, and Princes Risborough is nearly all slope.
What that means in practice is that this is not a jack situation. A jack on a slope can slide off its point, and the car will move if the handbrake gives up with a wheel already off. If a tyre has gone, stop where the road is straightest and the camber least severe, leave the car in gear as well as on the handbrake, turn the front wheels into the kerb or bank, and get everybody out on the uphill side and well clear of the carriageway.
Then call us. We chock the wheels and lift from a proper point, and the arrival window across the town is 30 to 60 minutes.
Catching a flat early is worth real money. A tyre that is losing air slowly, spotted while it is still parked up in Longwick, is very often repairable; the same tyre after ten miles of being driven on is scrap. Tight in Longwick, easy in Askett: neither stops the job. Level in Lacey Green, sloping in Loosley Row: we set the car straight first.
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The geography here does two things at once. The roads out of town climb hard and twist as they go, while the centre is a set of old market streets with no spare width in them. That leaves very few places where a driver could deal with a flat safely even with the right equipment in the boot. Stopping, standing clear and calling a van out is not the cautious option in Princes Risborough. It is the only sensible one.
A car came to a stop partway up Kop Hill with a shredded front tyre. There is nowhere level to work there, so the driver waited on the bank while the wheels were chocked front and back and the lift was taken from the manufacturer's jacking point rather than the nearest bit of sill.
A driver felt the wheel go on the A4010 and turned into a level side street rather than continuing towards Monks Risborough. Fifty yards of careful driving bought a flat, safe place to work, and it cost nothing at all.
A tyre deflated on the run down towards Askett and the driver braked hard by instinct. The car stayed straight, but on a wet descent that is a gamble. Easing off and letting the car lose speed on its own is the safer answer every time.
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Only to somewhere level and safe, and only slowly. A short move onto flat ground makes everything afterwards easier and safer. A long move on a flat wrecks the tyre and may bend the rim, so keep it to the shortest sensible distance.
By us, with chocks and the correct lifting points, on a moderate slope, yes. By a driver using the scissor jack from the boot, no. That is precisely where jacks slip, and it is the most dangerous thing anybody does at the roadside.
Hold the wheel firmly, come off the accelerator smoothly, and let the car lose speed before steering gently off the carriageway. A hard stab at the brakes with one corner deflated is what turns a blowout into a loss of control.
Not on a hill and not on a road carrying traffic. On a level driveway with room around the car it is a fair option. In this town those two conditions together are the exception rather than the rule.
Yes. Lacey Green, Loosley Row, Whiteleaf, Askett, Monks Risborough and Longwick are all covered, along with the lanes between them, at any hour of the day or night.
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