You come out of Harborne Pool and Fitness Centre or back from a walk round Queens Park and a tyre is flat. Leave the car where it is; the fitter decides repair or replacement beside it.
A Harborne car can spend more time parked than driven, so a flat can be found rather than felt: outside the pool on Lordswood Road, on a Court Oak Road drive on Monday morning, in the car park behind the High Street after a coffee. The reflex is to inflate it at the Hagley Road garage and carry on. A few hundred yards on a flat tyre grinds the inner liner to dust, and what was a simple nail repair becomes a tyre for the skip.
Send a photo of the flat tyre and the size marking, name the road, and mention any gate or permit the fitter needs to know about. At the kerb the tyre comes off the wheel so the inside can be seen. A clean hole in the tread is repaired from within; a sidewall wound, a bead damaged by driving flat or a shredded liner means a new tyre from the van. Which it is gets explained before the work starts, and the figures for both were on the call.
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 Harborne as well.
Other jobs we do at the car include broken tyre replacement in Harborne and puncture repair.
Drives off War Lane, Vivian Road and Lordswood Road, the streets round Queens Park, the pool car park with the centre's agreement, and the parking behind the shops on the High Street. The High Street's short bays themselves are too tight for the job.
| Main roads | A4040 Lordswood Road and Harborne Park Road; A456 Hagley Road; B4124 Harborne 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 Harborne page
Noticed the flat on Dudley Road or Spring Hill, the A457 heading into town? Do not carry on driving on it. Steer into whichever residential street comes first, hazards blinking, and wait somewhere safe away from the kerb edge. Message us the street name and something nearby, perhaps Winson Green Outer Circle station, and we will talk you through the next step.
Spotted a flat in Harborne? Check the other three before anything else; two or more soft tyres point beyond a single puncture. On the flat itself, look for a nail head, a cracked valve, a fresh granite-kerb graze. Driving it to a Hagley Road garage finishes the tyre off. A skinny temporary spare, if carried, is for slow, short hops, and swapping it beside a busy road is not worth the risk. The car belongs on the drive or a street by Queens Park until the fitter comes.
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Flat in Harborne? Leave the car on the drive and let the fitter come to it.
