A question that comes up constantly on the High Road is whether the car is allowed to stay where it has stopped. It is a fair worry along the A23, where a lot of the kerbside is bus lane, red route or loading only at the hour you happen to need it. The practical answer is that a broken down vehicle is a different thing from a parked one, and that the priority is getting out of the running lane and out of the bus lane if you can reach a legal space at walking pace. If the only thing you can reach is technically a restricted bay, take it rather than pressing on, put the hazards on so it is obvious the car is not simply parked, and say where you are when you ring so the job can be treated as the urgent one it is.
Once that is settled there is nothing else for you to decide. The tyre gets dealt with beside the car, whether that has ended up on a side street off Mitcham Lane, in a residents bay near Furzedown or in a car park by the Hub. Nobody expects you to have found a perfect spot. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, work carried out at every hour of the year, and most Streatham addresses seen within 30 to 60 minutes of the call.
Stopped in a supermarket car park with a flat and a boot full of shopping is a specific kind of miserable. The car parks around Streatham Vale are on our regular rounds, as it happens. You do not need to unload anything and you certainly do not need to wrestle a spare out from underneath it all. We come to the bay, jack it there, and either repair the tyre to standard or fit a replacement from stock in the van. Balanced, pressure set, and you drive out rather than getting towed out.
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The High Road runs for miles and gives a stopped car very little sympathy along the whole of it, which is why so many Streatham drivers press on looking for somewhere respectable to stop. There is no need. Get out of the live lane, get the hazards on, take the first legal space even if it is a poor one, and say plainly where you are. The fitting comes to the car from Streatham Hill down to the Vale.
A driver stopped where they clearly could not stay and rang immediately. Rolling twenty yards into the next side turning at walking pace took them out of the lane without asking anything of the tyre.
A flat that left the car in a restricted bay with hazards on. It was flagged as urgent on the phone and the wheel was off within the hour, which was a better outcome than driving on to look for somewhere tidier.
A tyre found down on a quiet turning with all the time in the world. No restriction, no pressure and no reason to move, so the repair happened at the owner's convenience.
If a legal space is within a very short crawl, take it at walking pace. If not, stay put with the hazards on and tell us on the phone, because that moves the call up the list.
Get out of it if you safely can, since that is the whole reason to prefer the first side street over the best one. Where you cannot, say so when you ring and we treat it accordingly.
Almost never. The A23 gives you a long way to travel before anything improves, and that distance is exactly what turns a mend into a purchase.
Yes, and a good share of the local work happens in one. The car keeps its space, the fitter works off the kerb side and nothing has to be shuffled around.
Then the correct size is fitted where the car stands and the failed casing leaves in the van. You are told the reason with the tyre in your hand rather than over the phone.
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