Some punctures never show you where they are. There is no nail standing proud, nothing in the tread you can feel with a thumb, and the tyre is simply a few pounds down every week. Looking harder does not solve it. Water solves it. The tyre comes off the wheel, goes into water under pressure, and the leak announces itself as a fine string of bubbles rising from one spot. Nothing else finds a hole that small with any reliability at all.
What that test also does is tell you which of three different problems you have. Bubbles from the tread mean a puncture, and a puncture in the right place is a repair. Bubbles from where the tyre meets the rim mean corrosion on the bead seat, and the answer there is cleaning the wheel rather than patching the tyre. Bubbles from the valve mean a valve, which is a small job mistaken for a puncture constantly. Three completely different repairs, and no way on earth to tell them apart by looking at a tyre standing on a driveway in Becontree. So we bring the means of finding out to the car.
You are stood looking at a screw head in the tread and wondering whether to pull it out. We come to it, on Wood Lane or on a driveway, take the wheel off and find out whether the damage is inside the repairable area. You watch it happen in the Marsh Green area, or at the kerb in Rush Green. Same tools in Rush Green as in Becontree, same on every call. The RM10 postcode and a street in Becontree: that is enough.
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Becontree is an enormous number of residential streets with tight parking, and the Heathway is busy enough that nobody wants to sit in a queue on a soft tyre to reach a garage. Slow leaks are the commonest thing we get called to across RM10, and the awkward part was never the repair, it was finding the hole. Doing that at the kerb where the car already sits means the whole thing finishes in one visit.
A tyre on a car near the Marsh Green area had been losing air for a month with nothing to see in the tread. Under water it gave up a fine hole made by a wire that had snapped off flush.
A slow leak on a car in Chadwell Heath was coming from the bead seat, where the alloy had corroded. Cleaning the seat and refitting solved it, and the tyre never needed a patch.
A driver off the Heathway had been told they needed a new tyre. The bubbles came from the valve core, which took a couple of minutes to deal with.
Usually something too small to see, a wire or a snapped off screw sitting flush with the tread, or a leak at the bead or the valve rather than in the tyre at all. Water under pressure finds all three. Eyes reliably find none of them.
Yes. Everything needed to break the tyre off the rim and find the leak travels with us, so a driveway on the estate works as well as a workshop. The car does not have to go anywhere.
Then patching the tyre would have achieved nothing at all. The bead seat gets cleaned back to sound metal, the tyre goes back on with a fresh seal, and the leak stops. It is a very common cause of a slow puncture on older alloys.
Yes, because a tyre run persistently under pressure wears its shoulders away and runs hot. It also tends to reveal itself at the least convenient possible moment. Finding it takes a fraction of the time that living with it does.
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