Found a tyre sitting flat at Northampton station or on your Abington drive? Leave the car exactly where it is. Repair or replacement gets decided at the wheel once the fitter arrives.
In Northampton a flat can greet you at the car. Commuters off an evening train find one corner on the rim at the station car park; night staff at Northampton General come off shift to a soft tyre; residents in Kingsthorpe wake to a flat on the street. The instinct is to creep to a tyre depot along the A5076, but a few hundred yards on no air usually ruins the tyre.
Send the location, the sidewall numbers and anything visible in the tread, then leave the car alone. The fitter works out the cause at the car. A screw near the centre line is repaired to BS AU 159; a leaking valve core is changed; a torn sidewall, or a liner ground up by running flat, means a new tyre. The choice and its price are put to you before the fitter 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 Northampton as well.
Related help from the same Brent Cross team covers broken tyre replacement in Northampton and burst tyre replacement.
Wherever the flat was found: the station car park, a Weston Favell or Riverside bay, a drive in Duston, or a Kingsthorpe permit bay if you say so. Bus lanes near the centre are not safe places to wait.
| Main roads | M1 J15, J15A and J16; A45; A43 |
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| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Northampton page
Crossing South Bridge on the A508 and losing pressure near the Queen Eleanor Roundabout? Turn off into a residential street towards Hardingstone, hazards on, passengers out and away from the traffic. While you wait for the call to connect, look for the locking wheel key and read the tyre size from the sidewall.
A flat noticed outside a Far Cotton house needs a proper look before you ring. First see whether any of the other three are soft. Then check the flat one for a pallet nail, a cracked valve or a gouge from a bus-lane kerb. Driving it to a garage across Northampton folds the sidewall and leaves the rim taking the weight. If a space-saver is fitted, respect the limit on its label. Drivers are better off leaving the car where it stands, especially on a permit street in Abington.
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Found a flat in Northampton? Keep the car still and a fitter comes to it.
