A fair share of what looks like a puncture in New Malden is actually impact damage from the A3 or from a raised kerb in a tight bay.
The genuine punctures, a nail or a screw in the central tread, are straightforward. We repair those internally with a proper plug and patch, rebalance the wheel and put it back on, and the tyre carries on to its normal wear life.
We take the tyre off the rim and show you which you have rather than judging from outside, because a steady leak with nothing visible in the tread is very often a pinch or a bead problem rather than a nail.
Roadworks, building sites and anywhere heavy traffic turns are where punctures come from. Round here that tends to mean Burlington Road and the parking either side of it. Screws, nails, staples and the odd bit of banding all end up in the gutter and then in a tyre. The Old Malden streets, Norbiton and anything on the A3 are one job to us. Old tyres leave Worcester Park, Malden Manor and Greater London with us, every time. You watch it happen in Motspur Park, or at the kerb in Coombe.
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A good deal of what looks like a puncture in New Malden is impact damage off the A3 or a kerb, which splits the tyre from the inside and cannot be repaired. We take the tyre off the rim, check the wheel too, and work in the tight bay the car is already parked in.
A tyre losing air with nothing visible outside. Off the rim, the inside showed a clear pinch split through the sidewall structure. Not repairable, and left alone it would have failed suddenly at speed rather than gently on a driveway.
An ordinary central tread puncture picked up in a supermarket car park. Repaired properly from the inside in a close-parked street with the van shielding the working side, rebalanced and back on the car in twenty minutes.
A repairable nail and, once the tyre was off, an older pinch on the inner sidewall the driver knew nothing about. The nail was fine; the pinch decided the outcome, and it would have failed eventually.
Usually not. A pinch split runs through the sidewall structure where the tyre flexes constantly, and no patch is safe there. It is frustrating because the tyre often looks fine from outside, which is exactly why we take it off the rim and look.
Yes, it is the normal job here. We position the van to protect the working side and use cones where the street is narrow. You do not need to find a bigger space or move the car before we arrive.
Frequently you cannot from outside, which is the point of taking the tyre off. A steady leak with nothing visible in the tread is often a pinch or a bead issue. We show you what is actually there before deciding anything.
About twenty minutes once we are with you, including rebalancing the wheel. If it turns out not to be repairable we tell you before doing the work rather than after, and we usually have the replacement on the van anyway.
Yes. A hard impact can buckle a rim slightly without being obvious, and a small buckle causes a slow leak that gets blamed on the tyre. We check the wheel as a matter of course after any impact.
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