How the job is done
Tyre trouble in St Albans after hours, repaired where the car is.
A late puncture in St Albans is often a nuisance rather than a danger. A driver returns to St Stephens along Watling Street and hears air escaping from a screw. A commuter at St Albans Abbey station sees the pressure warning light up. The tyre may well be healthy bar one tidy puncture, so sealing it before dawn saves buying a replacement that was never really needed.
At night the goal in St Albans is mending the tyre, not selling one. Off comes the St Stephens wheel, its casing is freed, and that puncture is judged by BS AU 159: tread's middle three-quarters, 6 mm or less, liner undamaged. A qualifying hole gets a patch-plug bonded inside, then rebalancing follows. That AL repair price, quoted before departure, is the same late at night.
Other services from the same Brent Cross team: locking wheel nut removal in St Albans and puncture repair in St Albans.