It is worth saying, because people apologise for it more than they should, that there was almost certainly nothing you could have done. Nearly every flat we attend starts with something small and sharp that was lying on the road surface pointing the wrong way up, and it goes in at a speed and an angle that no amount of care would have avoided. You did not see it, nobody sees it, and cars driving the same stretch of the A308 an hour later will not see it either. Screws and staples fall off works traffic. Wire comes out of tyre debris. A kerb catches an inner sidewall at a slow speed you barely felt. None of that is careless driving, and beating yourself up about it is the only genuinely wasted part of the afternoon.
So skip that bit and get on with the useful part. The car stops, everybody gets clear of the traffic side, and a fitter arrives with the equipment and the rubber already aboard. Around Sunbury that avoids the two bad choices the geography usually offers, which are crawling through the lanes at Lower Sunbury or getting back onto the M3 at Junction 1 on a tyre that cannot hold a line. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s are covered at any hour of any day, and arrival is typically inside the hour.
The first cold snap of the year fills the diary with flats that are not flats. Where there is real damage, the wheel comes off on the drive in Halliford and it is repaired to standard or replaced from stock, on the spot. Sunbury Common first, Halliford next, the M3 on the way back. A Lower Sunbury cul-de-sac or a Sunbury Cross main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Charlton Village or a narrow bay on the A244 is usually workable.
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Sunbury-on-Thames hands its drivers a good deal of works traffic on the A308 and a set of narrow riverside lanes at the other end, and both put things in tyres that nobody could reasonably see. There is no lesson to take from most of them. The only decision that matters afterwards is whether the car keeps moving, and around here, with the M3 minutes away at Junction 1, the answer is that it should not.
A driver near Sunbury Cross was convinced they had driven over something they should have spotted. It was a single staple standing on end in the tread, invisible from any seat in the car, and the tyre was mended.
A slow leak near Charlton Village with nothing obvious in the tread. A short piece of steel cord from a lorry tyre had worked in sideways. There was no version of that anybody could have avoided.
An inner sidewall damaged on a narrow riverside lane during an ordinary passing manoeuvre. It had not been a bad bit of driving, just an unlucky angle, and it was found where the car sat.
Almost certainly not. Most punctures are picked up from objects that cannot be seen and would not have been avoided by anybody. It is bad luck rather than bad driving.
Not necessarily. Some tyres go down over days with no symptom at all until the pressure finally falls far enough to feel. The dashboard warning is often the first honest sign there is.
Usually, yes. The object generally comes out with the tyre off the rim and you get to see it. Sometimes there is nothing left in there at all, which is common and does not change the repair.
It costs nothing while the car is there. If something is sitting in another one you would far rather know now than on a morning when you are late for the M3.
Yes, at any hour. Say roughly where the car has stopped and what it looks like, and the fitter will come to it rather than expecting it to come anywhere.
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