Discovering a flat outside your house in Terriers or beside the car at High Wycombe station is the moment to stop. Keep the wheels still; a fitter attends and makes the repair-or-replace call there.
A flat on a High Wycombe hill is more tempting to move than one on level ground. The car is on a slope in Downley or Sands, the nearest tyre bay is down in the valley, and it seems only a short roll. That roll does the damage: the rim pinches the sidewall against the road and a repairable nail becomes a ruined tyre. Commuters back from the train meet the same temptation in the station car park, if permitted, after dark.
Leave the car where it sits, put the handbrake on firmly and turn the wheels into the kerb if it is on a gradient. Message a photo of the flat tyre and its size. Beside the car on the Downley slope the tyre is unseated, the cause found and you are told which it is: a tread puncture patched to BS AU 159, a faulty valve, or a replacement from the van. Prices for both outcomes are given 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 High Wycombe as well.
Other services from the same Brent Cross team: broken tyre replacement in High Wycombe and wheel balancing.
Driveways and kerbs on the Downley, Sands and Hazlemere hillsides, the station car park, with prior permission, the Eden surface level and Cressex bays are all workable. A tyre that goes down while you are driving on Marlow Hill should roll only as far as the first safe turning.
| Main roads | M40 J3; M40 J4; A40 |
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| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the High Wycombe page
Feel the steering pull while climbing Hughenden Road or White Hill on the A4128? Ease off, switch the hazards on and look for a side road or driveway rather than halting on a bend. Out in Naphill or Walter's Ash the village streets usually give room to pull in. Once still, see if the tyre is right down on the rim or just soft, then call us with the road and the nearest junction.
Walk round all four tyres first, because a second soft one changes what the van brings. On the soft tyre itself, hunt for a nail, a cracked rubber valve or a fresh graze from a Sands kerb, and photograph whatever you find. Driving down into the valley to a garage grinds the wall away. Space-savers are for short, gentle hops, and bolting one on across a Sands gradient is awkward. Leaving the car where it stands is usually the better call.
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Flat tyre in High Wycombe? Leave the car where it stands and call.
