Sometimes the right answer to a repairable puncture is not to repair it at all. Not often, but often enough to be worth explaining properly rather than quietly taking the easier job and saying nothing.
Say the punctured tyre is the one good tyre on the car. Plenty of tread, the nail dead centre, and a repair that would last the rest of its life. The other three are close to the wear indicators and will need doing before winter. Repairing it keeps a good tyre, which is fine, but it also buys you a second visit in a couple of months. Turn it around and the sums change. A repair to the worn tyre is technically sound and practically pointless, because you are paying to preserve something with weeks left in it.
The part people get wrong is the axle. Two tyres on the same axle should behave alike, particularly in the wet, so a brand new one alongside a nearly bald one is worse than two new or two worn. Where replacement is the answer we would rather do the pair than the corner.
The first job is not the repair, it is the verdict. That work happens where the car is, on Camberwell Road or on a driveway in Loughborough Junction, with the wheel off, the tyre inspected from the inside and a proper plug-patch fitted rather than a can of foam. The Myatt's Fields phone and the Loughborough Junction phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Myatt's Fields, midday in Loughborough Junction, the same call either way. A SE5 address in Walworth and one in Denmark Hill are the same round.
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Most cars around here do short journeys through heavy traffic, which wears the fronts quickly and leaves the rears looking almost new for years. That mismatch is what turns a simple puncture into a decision rather than a job. We take depths on all four while the wheel is off and let you weigh it up beside the car.
A nail in the front tyre of a car near Myatt's Fields, decent tread all round and no other work due. Straightforward. Repaired to the standard, balanced, back on the car, and nothing else needed doing.
A rear tyre on Coldharbour Lane had a repairable screw and very little tread left. Fixing it would have worked and bought a couple of months at most. The owner chose a pair on that axle instead.
A driver wanted a single new tyre on a punctured front and the old one left alongside it. We fitted it, having explained that the car will pull under braking on a wet road with that much difference across an axle.
Nothing in the standard says so, and a legal tyre gets repaired at any depth if the injury sits in the right place. What we will do is tell you what is actually left on it, so you are choosing rather than being sold.
The rear on almost every car, whichever end drives. The back is the end you cannot correct once it lets go, so the better pair belongs there. If you are buying two they go on the back and the older pair moves forward.
Yes, and it takes about two minutes. Depth across the width on all four, pressures against the plate in the door shut, and a look for uneven wear that points at alignment. Worth having those numbers before you decide.
The life of the tyre. A plug and patch bonded to the liner from the inside to BS AU 159 becomes part of the tyre, and it keeps the marked speed rating. There is nothing to watch afterwards.
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