Back at Five Ways station after a day in the city, and a tyre has sunk onto its rim. Send the location, touch nothing, and the fitter decides repair or replacement beside the car in Edgbaston.
Flat tyres in Edgbaston can be found rather than felt: at University station after a late train, in a campus car park at the end of lectures, on a drive off Harborne Road on a Monday morning. The temptation is to pump it up at the garage on the Bristol Road and hope. Driving even a few hundred yards on a flat tears the inner liner and turns a repairable nail hole into a scrapped tyre, so the best move is to leave it exactly where it is.
Text a photo of the tyre and the size marking, plus where the car is and whether the fitter can reach it without a permit or a barrier code. At the car the wheel comes away and the tyre is opened up: a clean tread puncture is repaired from the inside, a sidewall wound or a liner destroyed by running flat means a new tyre from the van. Either way you are told the cost on the phone first, and the decision is explained before the work starts.
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 Edgbaston as well.
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Streets around Five Ways and University stations, the Calthorpe Estate's drives, Pebble Mill, campus car parks once the barrier is dealt with, and the roads by the Botanical Gardens. Not the QE multi-storeys unless the operator admits the van.
| Main roads | A456 Hagley Road; A38 Bristol Road; 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 Edgbaston page
Feel the car pulling on Harborne Park Road or Oak Tree Lane, both A4040 routes on the hospital side? Indicate, slow down and turn into the first residential road rather than stopping on the main route. Look at the tyre only once you are clear of traffic, then message us the road and the house number or landmark nearest the car, such as Selly Oak station.
A flat at University station or on the Calthorpe Estate? Circle the car and press the other three; two soft suggests more than one nail. On the deflated tyre, hunt for a screw head, wiggle the valve for a split, scan the wall for a new kerb graze. No Edgbaston flat should be driven to a garage, not even the short hop along the Bristol Road. A temporary spare, if carried, is strictly for gentle, brief use and only worth fitting well away from traffic.
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