A tyre found flat on a Bartley Green drive, down a Woodgate cul-de-sac or in the Newman University car park, if permitted, should stay put, because the fitter comes to the car to decide between a repair and a replacement.
Bartley Green's flats can be found in the morning or after a lecture: the car outside a house on Jiggins Lane sitting on its rim, or a student's hatchback low on one corner in the Genners Lane car park. The trap is the geography. With no garage nearer than Hagley Road West at Quinton, driving a flat means Adams Hill or Scotland Lane on the rim, which wrecks the tyre, can bend the wheel and turns a simple repair into a new tyre.
Ring with the street or the campus car park, with the registration and the tyre's sidewall code, and mention drive, kerb or bay. The fitter inflates and listens, or strips the tyre if the leak is not obvious, and finds the screw, the corroded rim seat or the valve that let it down. A tread puncture inside the BS AU 159 limits gets patched from within; anything worse gets a new tyre fitted on the spot. Either figure is settled by phone before the van heads for B32.
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 Bartley Green as well.
Not quite this? Read about broken tyre replacement in Bartley Green or wheel balancing instead.
Any drive or kerb between the Jiggins Lane shops and the Frankley edge, Woodgate and California cul-de-sacs, the Bartley Green Leisure Centre side streets, or the barrier car park at Newman University once the fitter, where the operator allows it, is admitted. Not the bends on the reservoir lanes.
| Main roads | Genners Lane and Scotland Lane; Jiggins Lane and Adams Hill; A456 Hagley Road West |
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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 Bartley Green page
Flat on Shenley Lane or Bell Lane, both part of the B4121, or on West Boulevard? Pull into a side road rather than stopping on the bend, switch on hazards and have passengers step out kerbside. Look for a nail head or a cut before deciding anything. Then send a photo, the street name and the tyre size; on the call we explain whether patching or replacing looks more likely.
Found a Bartley Green car on a flat? Inspect the remaining three first, because a Genners Lane pothole can catch two at once. On the deflated tyre, check for a screw among the grooves, a valve that is bent or cracked, and a kerb scrape on the wall from a cul-de-sac kerb. Driving it to Quinton for help ruins it. A space-saver can move a car a short way at reduced speed, but on these hills leave it on the drive or a flat estate kerb.
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Flat on Jiggins Lane or at the campus, the Bartley Green car stays put and the fitter comes.
