A repair is a small amount of material and a modest amount of work. The tyre comes off the rim, the injury is inspected from the inside, the channel is cleaned out, and a combination unit goes in so that a stem fills the hole and a patch seals the inner liner over the top of it. That is the whole job. Set against a tyre, which is a manufactured object with steel, textile and several kilos of compound in it, a repair is a fraction of the outlay, and it is not a close comparison.
Which is why we would far rather repair than sell, wherever the tyre allows it. The honest part is knowing when it does not. A repair stops being worth making when the tyre has little useful life left, when the damage sits outside the area a repair is permitted in, when there is already a repair sitting close to the new one, or when the tyre has been driven on flat long enough to wreck the inner liner. In any of those cases you are spending on something that is going to be replaced anyway, and we would sooner say so on the spot than after taking the money.
The space saver in the boot is the reason people drive on a flat, which is a shame, because it is not much of a solution either. Changing to it at the roadside on Tower Bridge Road is also the least safe thing you will do that week. Whether it is Surrey Quays in rush hour or Southwark Park Road at midnight, we answer. On Jamaica Road, day or night, Grange included, arrival across SE1 runs 30 to 60 minutes. SE1 takes in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, and we work the lot.
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Parking around Bermondsey and the streets off Southwark Park Road is permit only and tight, so the real cost of a garage visit is not the garage at all. It is the half day and the space you give up to get there. That tips a lot of people toward simply buying a new tyre, because it feels like the quicker route. It is not the quicker route if we come to the car, and a decent share of the punctures we attend turn out to be repairable once somebody actually looks inside.
A nail through the centre of the tread on a car parked near Grange Road, with plenty of tread left and a clean channel behind it. Half an hour, one patch, and the tyre carried on doing its job.
A perfectly repairable puncture in a tyre with very little tread left. Repairing it would have been entirely safe and entirely pointless, since that tyre was going to be replaced within a couple of months.
A tyre that went soft and was then run for a few miles had shredded its inner liner into loose strips. The hole was in the right place; the tyre no longer had a surface for a patch to seal against.
Yes, by a wide margin. You are paying for the labour and a small consumable rather than for a manufactured tyre. That is why anybody reaching for a replacement before the tyre has even come off the rim is worth questioning. The inspection settles it, and it takes minutes.
When the damage sits outside the permitted area, when there is an existing repair close by, when the casing has been hurt by running flat, or when the tyre is nearly worn out anyway. Refusing is not us being awkward. A repair in any of those cases is a repair that does not hold.
It can, within limits, provided the repairs are properly spaced and the standard permits it for that tyre. What is not acceptable is repairs overlapping or crowded into one area, because each one takes a small amount of strength out of the casing around it.
The tyre comes off the wheel and the injury is examined from the inside, which is the only side that shows what the object really did. You are welcome to look at it with us. We work to BS AU 159, and where that standard says no, the answer is a replacement.
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