There is a compressor in a lot of boots now, and the tempting plan is to pump the tyre back up and make a dash for a garage before it goes down again. It is worth understanding what that actually does. Air escaping through a hole takes rubber dust with it and the hole gets bigger, so the second inflation lasts less time than the first. Meanwhile the pressure you have put back in is not enough to stop the tyre running under-inflated at speed, and under-inflated at speed is where the heat comes from. On the M4 or the A33 that is a handful of miles before the casing starts breaking up inside, and you arrive at a garage needing a tyre rather than a repair.
So if it will not hold air, do not keep feeding it. Park it, leave it, and ring. A fitting van comes to where the car actually is, whether that is a business park off the A329(M), a driveway in Lower Earley or a lay-by near Tilehurst, and the tyre is dealt with once rather than three times. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, day and night through the year, and we usually reach Reading addresses within half an hour to an hour of the call.
Flat tyres in Reading come in from every direction: a screw picked up on the A33, a valve that has given up overnight, a kerb strike that has let the bead go. The response does not change. Nothing is towed out of Tilehurst or Earley; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Woodley, and the same on the A329(M).
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Reading runs on a commute, and the commute is what tempts people to keep a dying tyre going for one more journey. The M4 corridor and the A329(M) are the worst possible roads to try it on, because the speed is what turns a soft tyre into a scrapped one. A car sitting still in Woodley or Earley is doing itself no harm at all, and that is where the fitter would rather find it.
A driver had inflated the same tyre three times trying to get across town. Each refill lasted less than the one before. By the time we saw it the hole had opened up too far to mend and the tyre was replaced.
A slow leak noticed at lunchtime, with the car in a business park bay until five. Nothing was pumped, nothing was driven, and a nail came out of good tread with the repair finished before the owner came out.
A tyre losing air on the approach to the M4 with the driver eyeing the next junction. Pulling into the first safe space instead meant a puncture repair rather than a motorway blowout and a new tyre.
You do not need to come to us, and pumping it repeatedly makes the hole worse each time. Leave it flat and stationary and the equipment comes to the car instead.
Then it is a slow leak, which is the version worth catching early. A tyre that has never been run flat is nearly always repairable. One that has been nursed for a fortnight often is not.
It is the easiest kind of job there is. Say which car park and whether there is a barrier or a gate, leave the keys with somebody if you need to, and the work happens while you are inside.
Yes, at any hour. Get onto the hard shoulder, everybody out and behind the barrier, then tell us the junction numbers you are between and which direction you were heading.
Yes, wherever the damage allows one. The tyre comes off the rim, the casing is read from the inside and the hole is plugged and patched to the British standard, which sees out the rest of the tyre's life.
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