A tyre sitting on its rim outside a Bournville house or in a car park by Moor Street station should stay exactly where it is until someone who knows tyres has looked at it.
Flat tyres in Birmingham are usually discovered rather than felt. You step out to a driveway in Acocks Green and one front corner has sunk, or return from the Bullring to a car slumped in its bay. The temptation is to crawl to a petrol station or pump it up and hope, but a few hundred yards along the A41 with no air grinds the sidewall apart and makes a simple repair into a full replacement.
Leave the car, note exactly where it is, and call 07473 720871 with the size printed on the sidewall. The fitter arrives, takes the wheel off and finds the cause: a nail in the tread that BS AU 159 allows to be repaired, a leaking valve, or a casing too damaged to save. Both prices are given to you on the phone beforehand, so the decision at the car in Stechford or Yardley is simply whichever one the tyre permits.
A home drive in Acocks Green or Shard End, a residents' bay covered by your permit in Balsall Heath, or a retail park at Stechford are all fine. A car left on a city-centre loading bay or bus lane is harder, so describe precisely where it stands.
| Main roads | A4540 Middleway; A38(M) Aston Expressway and M6 J6; M42 J3 to J6 |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Walk round the car first: if more than one tyre is down on your Sparkbrook street, say so, as it changes what the fitter loads. On the flat one, scan the tread for a nail head, see whether the valve has lost its cap or bent over, and trace the sidewall for a kerb scuff. Crawling to a garage along the A45 shreds it. A space-saver spare suits only short, slow journeys, and plenty of cars carry none. A Hodge Hill drive or a residents' bay suits the wait.
Found a flat tyre in Birmingham? Keep off it and call us out to where the car is.
