One of the more useful things about a mobile fit is that you are not required to stand next to it. A great many of the flats we deal with in this town belong to cars that are parked for the day anyway: on the park and ride, in a bay near Market Hill, on a drive at Hemingford while somebody works from home. If that is you, there is no reason to reorganise your afternoon around a tyre. Arrange access, leave the keys with somebody or say where the car sits and what it looks like, and get on with things. The fitter rings once the wheel is back on and set to its proper figure.
What you should not do is drive it somewhere more convenient first. The A14 sits right on the doorstep and it is precisely the wrong road for a soft tyre, while the narrow turnings around the Quay and Bridge Street are exactly where a flat gets pulled off its rim by low speed steering. So the car stays where it stopped and the work comes to it. The tyre is broken off the wheel, the casing is inspected from the inside and either mended within what BS AU 159 allows or replaced from the stock aboard. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s are all covered, whatever the hour and whatever the date, and a St Ives address is usually reached within 30 to 60 minutes.
Topping it up at a petrol station every few days is not a fix, it is a countdown. So it is worth ringing while it is still a small problem: we come to the car in St Ives, take the wheel off and find the leak properly. Old tyres leave Hemingford, Houghton and Cambridgeshire with us, every time. You watch it happen in California, or at the kerb in Wyton.
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St Ives puts a medieval centre and a freight route within a mile of each other, and neither is a good place to be nursing a tyre. Cars here spend long stretches parked, at the park and ride, on Market Hill or on a drive out towards Wyton, and a parked car is the easiest thing in the world to fix. Leave it where it is, hand over access if you need to be elsewhere, and the day carries on.
A commuter found a flat before catching the bus into Cambridge and rang from the platform. The car was dealt with in its bay by lunchtime and was simply ready when they came back that evening.
A driver had to be elsewhere and left the keys next door. The wheel came off the drive, the puncture was mended and the car was locked up again before they returned.
A flat spotted in a works car park at nine in the morning. Nothing had to be rearranged. The job happened outside while the owner carried on inside and only came out to look at the old casing.
No. If access is straightforward and we know which vehicle it is, you can be anywhere. A good share of the work here happens with the owner at a desk in Cambridge or sat indoors with the kettle on.
Make, colour and roughly where it sits. In a busy car park the row or the nearest entrance is enough. There is no need to stand outside waving.
Yes, with a neighbour, a receptionist or wherever suits. Say on the phone where they will be, and the car is locked again afterwards.
Please do not. Manoeuvring is the part of driving that a flat tyre handles worst, and the twenty yards would cost you the repair. The van will come to the bay it is in.
Then be there and you will be shown it. The casing gets read in front of you and the object that caused it comes out where you can see it, rather than being described to you afterwards.
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