Puncture repair
A nail or a screw in the tread
A hole in the middle of the tread can often be repaired properly from the inside. A cut in the sidewall cannot, and we will tell you which you have.
A repair is careful, unexciting work, and that is how it should be. The wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and the hole is found and repaired from the inside. Pushing a plug in from the outside and sending you on your way is how you end up calling someone again next week.
Some damage cannot be repaired. A cut in the sidewall, a hole too close to the shoulder, or a tyre that has been driven flat for any distance all mean a new tyre. Driving on a flat heats and breaks down the inside of the casing even when the hole itself looks small.
Building sites shed screws. Farm gateways shed flints. Station and supermarket car parks collect both. If you know where it happened, tell us; it helps us decide whether to bring a repair kit, a new tyre, or both.
What to tell us
- Where the nail or screw is: the middle of the tread, or near the edge.
- How far the car was driven after the tyre went soft.
- The tyre size, in case a repair turns out not to be safe.
- Whether a sealant or an emergency repair kit has already been used.
In the districts
Where this job tends to find us
We do this anywhere in our thirty districts. These are three places where the ground makes it more likely to be needed.
Price first
Ask for a price: puncture repair
Tell us where the car is and what has happened. We reply with a price and an honest idea of how far away the van is, before anything is agreed.
- Where the nail or screw is: the middle of the tread, or near the edge.
- How far the car was driven after the tyre went soft.
- The tyre size, in case a repair turns out not to be safe.
- Whether a sealant or an emergency repair kit has already been used.
Other jobs
The rest of what the van does
- New tyresGive us the size from the sidewall and where the car is. We bring the tyre, take the old one off and torque the wheel on the same ground.
- Locking wheel nutsThe key is in the glovebox, or it is not. Tell us which before we set off and the right removal kit comes with the van.
- Run-flatsThey still go down and they still have to come off at the roadside. They are heavier and stiffer, and they hide a puncture until the warning light comes on.
- Van tyresTransits, Sprinters, Crafters and the box van that should not have gone down that lane. Load ratings and twin wheels, not car tyres with bigger writing.
- Jump startsLights left on, a cold morning, or a car that sat in a station car park for a week. We jump it if it will take a jump, and we say so if it will not.
- RecoveryA blowout on the A27, a wheel that will not turn, or a car in a ditch off a Downs lane. What cannot be fixed where it stands, we lift and move.