It is more common than you would think not to know which tyre has gone. The car feels wrong, the steering has gone heavy or the back end feels loose, and from the driver's seat that is about as much detail as you get. A rear flat is particularly hard to place, because the front of the car often feels fine and the pull you notice is not necessarily on the side you expect. So once you have stopped safely, walk round the car and look at all four from a couple of paces back, comparing the shape where each tyre meets the road. The flat one sits differently, bulging out at the bottom where the others are round. If it is dark, that shape is still visible against a wet surface or a phone light held low.
If you genuinely cannot tell, it does not matter. Say so on the phone and the fitter works it out in seconds on arrival. What matters far more is that the car stopped. Around here the roads give you very little, with the North Circular hemming the area in and the streets near Wembley Stadium capable of locking solid without warning, so a car that is stationary and legal is already in the best position available. Cars, SUVs and 4x4s, at any hour of any day, usually reached in half an hour to an hour.
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 Alperton are on our regular rounds, as it happens. A Sudbury cul-de-sac or a Tokyngton main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Tokyngton or a narrow bay on Great Central Way is usually workable. HA9 takes in Tokyngton and Alperton, and we work the lot.
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Wembley does not hand you many good places to stop and think, between the North Circular, the Harrow Road and the streets around the stadium that can fill without notice. Once the car is somewhere legal and still, the rest is small. Which tyre it is can be settled in a few seconds by anybody, and if you cannot manage it the fitter will, wherever the car has ended up in HA0 or HA9.
A driver near Alperton was certain it was a front tyre. It was the offside rear. Walking round the car settled it in about ten seconds and saved a good deal of guessing on the phone.
A car in a bay at Wembley Park where two tyres looked similar in poor light. The fitter found it immediately with a gauge, which is the ordinary answer when eyes are not enough.
A driver about to jack up a perfectly sound wheel on a side street off Bridge Road. Ringing first stopped that, and the correct wheel came off with proper equipment shortly afterwards.
Stand back a couple of paces and compare the shape of all four where they touch the ground. The flat one squats and bulges at the bottom while the others stay round.
Not at all. Say so and the fitter identifies it in seconds with a gauge. Nobody expects a driver to diagnose anything from the pavement.
Very common with a rear flat, because the handling change reaches you through the whole car rather than through one corner. Trust the shape of the tyre over the feel of the steering.
Only where you are properly clear of traffic and it takes no effort. There is little point, since a tyre that is visibly down does not need a number attached to it.
Yes, provided there is clearance for the van and space to work beside the car. Mention the level and any height barrier when you ring.
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