Weather changes almost nothing about the job and quite a lot about your half hour. The work itself carries on in the rain: the machine and the balancer live in the van, the wheel comes off under cover of the tailgate, and a wet evening in SE26 is an ordinary shift rather than a reason to postpone anything. What the rain does change is where you should be standing, and the honest answer is somewhere else. There is no need to supervise, no need to hold a torch and no need to get soaked being polite. If the car is safely off the road, sit in it. If you are near enough to home or to a doorway, go there and leave a phone number.
That is worth saying here because Sydenham does not offer much shelter. The streets climbing away from Sydenham Road are narrow with little cover, and standing about on a wet gradient for half an hour is genuinely miserable for no benefit at all. Tell us where the car is and what it looks like, arrange how the fitter reaches it, and go and be dry. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, at every hour of every day, with most SE26 addresses reached within 30 to 60 minutes of the call.
The pressure light coming on is not the same as a flat, and the difference is worth money. So the first thing that happens when we arrive in SE26 is a proper look with the wheel off, rather than a guess with a gauge. Whether it is Crystal Palace in rush hour or Kirkdale at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Bell Green included, arrival across SE26 runs 30 to 60 minutes. The SE26 postcode and a street in Sydenham: that is enough.
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Sydenham runs uphill in most directions and offers very little in the way of somewhere to stand while you wait, which makes a wet evening feel far worse than the tyre deserves. None of it needs your supervision. Say where the car is, sort out access, and go and be warm. Whether it has stopped near the South Circular, on Westwood Hill or on a street off Sydenham Road, the work carries on regardless of what the sky is doing.
A driver rang from a shop doorway in the rain and was told to go inside and stay there. The wheel was off, the puncture found and the car finished without anybody standing about getting wet.
A flat on a steep turning on a cold evening. The car was well off the road, so sitting inside with the doors shut was both the safest and the driest place to spend the wait.
A flat outside a house up towards Upper Sydenham with weather coming in. The keys went indoors, the fitter worked at the kerb and the owner never went out at all.
Yes. The equipment travels under cover and the wheel is worked on beside the van, so rain slows a job down slightly and stops nothing.
Not at all. If the car is safely parked, go indoors or sit inside it. Leave a number and the fitter will call when it is done or if anything needs a decision.
On a quiet residential street, yes. Where traffic is passing close it is the wrong answer, and you should be outside and a good distance from the vehicle on the footway.
No. The casing is dried and prepared properly before anything is bonded to it, which is part of why a mend to BS AU 159 takes the time it does.
Usually. Give the street, the make and colour, and roughly which end it is parked at. Around Kirkdale and the turnings off it that is plenty.
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