Nobody expects you to know what has happened to the tyre. People ring apologising for not being able to say whether it is a puncture, a valve or something they hit on a lane near Loudwater, and it makes no difference at all to what happens next. The tyre has to come off the rim to be read properly, and until it does, an expert standing next to it would not know either. So if the answer to every question is that you have no idea, that is a perfectly normal call and it slows nothing down.
What you do need to do is stop and stay stopped. Out towards Maple Cross and West Hyde the lanes are narrow and the verges are uncertain, and the temptation is to press on to somewhere that feels more sensible. There is nowhere more sensible. Get the car as far off the running surface as the ground allows, everybody out on the field side, and ring. The fitter comes with lighting, a machine and stock aboard, takes the tyre off, finds out what is actually wrong and tells you plainly. If it can be mended under BS AU 159 it is mended. If it cannot, the right size goes on there and then. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, at any hour of any day.
Flat on the M25 near junction 18 with nowhere sensible to stop, or flat on the drive at seven in the morning: the answer starts the same way, which is that somebody has to look at it properly. The Loudwater phone and the Croxley Green phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Mill End, midday in Moor Park, the same call either way.
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Rickmansworth puts fast motorway at Junction 18 and dark Chiltern lanes within a couple of miles of each other, and both are places where drivers feel they ought to have more answers than they do. You do not need any. The tyre will explain itself once it is off the wheel. A driveway in Croxley Green, the station car park or a verge on the A412, the van comes to it with everything needed to find out.
A driver near Mill End could see nothing in the tread and felt foolish ringing without an explanation. There was a thorn through the shoulder that nobody would have spotted with the tyre on the wheel.
A car in Croxley Green losing air overnight with the owner convinced it was a valve. It turned out to be a screw sitting in a groove. The guess cost nothing because the answer comes off the machine, not off the phone.
A flat on an unlit lane with no house number and no idea of the road name. A description of the last turning was enough. The car stayed put and the wheel was off within the hour of arriving.
Not in the slightest. Almost nobody does. The tyre gets read from the inside once it is off the rim, and that is the only place the real answer lives anyway.
No. Have a look if it is safe and easy, and if you see something it saves a minute. If you see nothing, that is common and it tells us very little either way.
Give the last village or turning you passed and the direction you were going. Our fitters know the roads around the Chilterns, and we will ring you back as we get close rather than drive past.
You will get an honest guess on the phone if you can describe the damage, and a real answer at the car. Nobody is going to commit you to a replacement before the tyre has been looked at properly.
Yes. Get onto the hard shoulder and up behind the barrier with everybody out of the car, then tell us the junction and the direction. We attend that stretch day and night.
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