A tyre found flat after a swim at Moseley Road Baths or a show at the Midlands Arts Centre is not one to drive home on. Leave the car and ring from where it is.
Flats in Balsall Heath are found rather than felt. The car sat all night on Clevedon Road and one corner is on the rim by morning; you come out of the Midlands Arts Centre into the Cannon Hill Park car park and a tyre is down; a car left by Calthorpe Park all weekend will not hold air. A slow leak from a Moseley Road screw, a perished valve or a bead lifted by a kerb look identical from the pavement, and all of them get worse if driven on.
The price agreed when you ring includes the trip to B12, so the repair-or-replace decision is made beside the wheel with no surprise attached. What the fitter needs is where the car is, the size on the sidewall and whether it went down slowly or at once. At the car the tyre is pumped up and the leak located; a nail through the tread is patched from inside, a leaking valve is replaced, and a damaged sidewall gets a new tyre. You hear which before any work begins.
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 Balsall Heath as well.
You can book broken tyre replacement in Balsall Heath or 24 hour tyre repair in Balsall Heath on the same call.
Balsall Heath terraces where the car is legally parked, the Cannon Hill Park car parks by the Pershore Road and Russell Road in daylight, and the streets around Calthorpe Park and the library. A car flat in a Moseley Road bus lane should be pushed clear if safe.
| Main roads | A435 Moseley Road; A4540 Belgrave Middleway; A441 Pershore Road |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Balsall Heath page
Bristol Road and Bristol Street, both on the A38, are no place to change a wheel. With a flat there, leave the A38 for a side road towards Lee Bank or Southside, flick the hazards on and have passengers wait behind a wall or railing. Ring us with the road, your heading at the time and whatever stands nearest, and a fitter is sent to the car.
A flat on a Balsall Heath street calls for a few checks. Look at the other tyres, since one squeeze into a Mary Street gap can mark two. On the flat one, find any screw, see if the valve is cracked, and look for a kerb scrape. Driving it over the Middleway to a garage only makes things worse. A space-saver spare is for a gentle short trip only. The terrace where it sits, or a Cannon Hill Park car park, will do.
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Flat in Balsall Heath? Do not move the car; the fitter comes to it.
