A puncture is usually a location problem rather than a bad luck problem. Nails and screws do not distribute themselves evenly across London. They collect where building work is happening, where deliveries are unloaded, and in the gutter of a street where something has been going on for a few weeks. If one tyre has picked something up, the car has been parked or driven somewhere that had a supply of them, and the other three have been in exactly the same place.
So the last thing we do on a puncture repair is look at the other three tyres, and it finds something more often than you would expect. Frequently it is a second object that has not yet reached the casing, sitting in the tread doing nothing, which can be pulled out before it becomes a call at six in the morning. Sometimes it is nothing at all and that is worth knowing too. It takes a few minutes with the car exactly where it is parked, which around the terraces off Leighton Road matters, because moving the car is the expensive part of any tyre job here.
What you cannot see is the part that decides it. So the wheel comes off and the tyre comes off the rim on the drive in Gospel Oak or wherever the car is, and the inspection happens before any promise does. Nothing is towed out of the Fortess Road area or Highgate Road; the work finishes there. Pressures set before we leave Leighton Road terraces, and the same on Fortess Road. A NW5 address in Tufnell Park and one in Gospel Oak are the same round.
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The terraced streets off Leighton Road are permit controlled and parked solid, so a car here tends to sit in the same few spaces week after week and drive the same short routes. That concentrates whatever is on the road surface into the same four tyres, which is why second and third punctures on the same car so often come from the same source. Having all four looked at while the wheel is off is the cheapest part of the whole visit.
A repair on a car off Fortess Road turned up another screw in a back tyre that had not yet gone through. It came out before it became a second job.
Two tyres on a car near Highgate Road had picked up debris from the same stretch of road. One had gone down and one had not, yet.
A repair near Tufnell Park where the other three were genuinely clean. That is a two minute answer and it is still worth having.
Because whatever punctured one tyre was lying somewhere the whole car drove over or parked in. Finding a second object before it works through is considerably cheaper than being called out again next week.
Regularly. A short screw can sit in the tread rubber without reaching the casing at all, and it can stay there for months before it works its way in. Those are the ones worth removing while somebody is already looking.
If the same tyre keeps picking things up, it is worth a thought about where the car spends its time, particularly near building work. Mostly it is nothing you can control, which is why the check matters more than the diagnosis.
No. It is part of the visit. If the other three are clear we will say so and leave it there rather than manufacturing reasons to do more work.
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