Run-flat tyres change the answer to almost every question about repairs. The whole design is a much stiffer sidewall, thick enough to carry the weight of the car for a limited distance with no air in it at all, which is why the car can keep going after a puncture. It also means the tyre may have been run flat without the driver feeling much, and running flat is exactly the thing that ruins the internal structure.
That is why a great many run-flats cannot be repaired, and why several manufacturers state plainly that theirs never should be. When one comes in, the questions are how far it was driven after the pressure went, at what speed, and what the inside of the tyre looks like. If the liner shows heat scuffing or the reinforced sidewall has started to break down, that settles it. Some run-flats can be repaired within strict limits, and we will tell you which position yours is in rather than guessing. What we will not do is patch one and hope, because a compromised run-flat gives no warning at all before it fails.
A repair costs a small fraction of a tyre. That is the whole reason to have someone look properly rather than assume the worst. That happens on the drive in Woodberry Down, at work or at the roadside, whichever applies. The Wells Terrace phone and the Stroud Green phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Manor House, midday in Woodberry Down, the same call either way.
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Around Finsbury Park station and along Seven Sisters Road the traffic is heavy enough that a car with a soft tyre gets carried along in it rather than stopped, which is precisely how a run-flat ends up being driven further than it should have been. The useful habit is to treat the pressure warning as an instruction rather than information. Pull in at the first safe opportunity, and the tyre stands a much better chance of being repairable when we take it off.
A car near the Manor House edge had covered several miles on a punctured run-flat because it drove almost normally. The reinforced sidewall had already started to break down inside.
A different car off Stroud Green Road had stopped within a mile of the warning. The tyre came off, the inside was sound, and the repair was within what the maker permits.
A run-flat replaced on a car near Wells Terrace with another run-flat rather than a conventional tyre, because the car has no spare and is not set up to carry one.
Sometimes, within strict limits, and some manufacturers say never. It depends on their rules, on how far the tyre was driven after it lost pressure, and on what the inside looks like once it is off the wheel. There is no single answer that covers all of them.
The car usually tells you when the pressure warning appeared, and the inside of the tyre tells us the rest. Heat scuffing on the liner and a sidewall that has started to break up are the signs that it went too far, whatever the dashboard said.
You can on some cars, but the car very likely has no spare wheel and no jack, because the run-flats were the reason it did not need them. That is a decision worth making deliberately rather than at the roadside.
The common sizes, yes. If yours is an unusual fitment we will tell you when you call rather than after arriving, and we will not offer to substitute a conventional tyre as though it were the same thing.
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