Back at Stevenage station after work to find one tyre sitting on its rim? Leave it parked, call us, and we decide repair or replacement beside the car.
Some A1(M) commuters leave the car at a station, Potters Bar, Hatfield or Stevenage, and come back in the evening to find a tyre sagging on the tarmac. Others wake to a flat on the drive in Welwyn Garden City after carrying a nail home from the motorway. Pumping it up at a petrol station and heading off is tempting, but a tyre driven flat is often a tyre lost.
Keep the car still and message or ring us with the location and tyre size. At the car we take the wheel off and look inside the tyre. A clean tread puncture in a sound casing is repaired; a crushed sidewall, a hole near the edge or damage from rolling flat means a new tyre. We quote each outcome by phone beforehand, so neither comes as a surprise.
On run-flat tyres? They behave differently once deflated, so check the handbook's limits and read our page on run-flat tyres; we fit replacement run-flat tyres at the car near the A1(M) as well.
Other jobs we do at the car include broken tyre replacement on the A1(M) and new tyres fitted.
Car parks at Hatfield, Stevenage or Potters Bar stations, driveways in Welwyn Garden City or Hitchin, and residential side roads are all fine. If the tyre went flat on the A1(M) itself, recovery comes first.
| Road | A1(M) Hertfordshire section |
|---|---|
| Operator | National Highways |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the A1(M) page
A tyre going flat near the Hatfield end calls for a calm head. Switch the hazards on, and use the next exit only when the car can be steered and driven safely. South Way, the A1001, and the Travellers Lane Roundabout lead towards Welham Green, where residential streets near Welham Green station give room to stop and phone us with the registration.
Found a flat? Check the other three before anything else, then look for a nail, a valve that is torn or bent sideways, or grazing low on the sidewall from a Digswell kerb. Do not inflate it and crawl to a garage along the A1000; a tyre run without air folds and shreds inside. A space-saver is a temporary, speed-limited spare poorly suited to the A1(M), so leave the car on the drive or Potters Bar station bay where it sits.
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Found a flat in Stevenage, Hatfield or Welwyn Garden City? Leave it and call us out.
