A tyre found flat at Radley station, Tilsley Park or outside your house in Drayton should not be driven on; in Abingdon a fitter travels out and makes the repair-or-replace call beside it.
Flat tyres in Abingdon are found in ordinary places: after training at Tilsley Park, on a return from Oxford to the Radley station car park, in a Sutton Courtenay driveway on a Saturday morning. With many cars carrying only a foam kit and no spare, and a garage on the other side of the Thames, the pull is to drive on it gently. That risks turning a small repair into a new tyre.
Ring with the car's spot, the tyre size and whether it is fully flat. Once in Drayton or wherever the car sits, the fitter removes the wheel and inspects the tyre inside and out. A clean puncture in the tread that has not been driven on is repaired to BS AU 159 at the car. If it was run flat or the damage is in the wrong place, a replacement is fitted, with the cost confirmed first.
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 in Abingdon as well.
Need something else? Our pages on broken tyre replacement and new tyres fitted in Abingdon explain those jobs.
Level car parks at Radley station and Tilsley Park, Stratton Way or Rye Farm with a ticket, and drives and kerbs in Drayton, Sutton Courtenay and Shippon. A flat on the A34 is no place to wait; recovery comes first.
| Main roads | A34; A415 Marcham Road and Ock Street; A4183 Oxford Road |
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| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Abingdon page
Feel the car pulling to one side on Drayton Road (B4016) or Steventon Road (B4017)? Ease off, indicate and turn into a residential street before checking the tyre. Do not keep driving on it, as a flat tyre overheats and the casing breaks up. Then phone through the street and house number nearest the car, plus which wheel looks lowest.
Found a flat at Tilsley Park or on a Shippon drive? Glance at the remaining three before ringing, since two soft at once suggests a cause beyond one nail. Then examine the bad one for embedded steel, valve cracking or kerb grazes along its wall. Do not drive it over Abingdon Bridge to a garage, as the casing folds and breaks up inside. Any space saver aboard is a stopgap wheel with a reduced speed limit. Leaving the car where it stands is wiser.
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Flat tyre in Abingdon? Leave it parked and call with the size.
