Back at the car at Redditch station and one tyre is flat on the ground. Leave it in the bay. Driving a flat tyre even to the exit usually turns a repair into a replacement.
Redditch flats appear when the day is over: in the station car park as the Cross-City train gets in, in the Alexandra Hospital car parks after a shift, in a Winyates parking court first thing. A nail from the Coventry Highway has been leaking for hours. The one thing not to do is drive on it, because the rim destroys the inner liner within a few hundred yards and scores the alloy as it goes.
Text where the car is, the bay or the close, the sidewall marking and a snap of the flat. We come with a compressor and a selection of popular sizes, strip the tyre from the wheel and decide there: a tread puncture that BS AU 159 allows is patched, anything else is replaced if the size is on the van. You hear the cost of both outcomes first. A car in a Kingfisher multi-storey must reach a surface car park first.
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 Redditch as well.
Other services from the same Brent Cross team: broken tyre replacement in Redditch and locking wheel nut removal in Redditch.
Redditch station, a normal bay at the Alexandra Hospital or the surface car parks around the Kingfisher where the operator allows it, parking courts and drives across Winyates, Church Hill, Batchley and Headless Cross. Not inside the Kingfisher multi-storeys, and not on the Highways or the M42.
| Main roads | M42 J2; M42 J3; A441 Birmingham 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 Redditch page
A flat on Stratford Road, the A448, should be handled calmly: hazards on, pull into a gateway or the next side road, and keep off the verge if traffic is close. Phone with the road number and whichever village you last drove through, Mappleborough Green or Spernal for example. If a spare is in the boot it can go on, otherwise a new tyre is sized and priced on the call.
A flat found in a Redditch parking court needs one check before anything else: are the other three tyres sound? Look over the flat for a nail, a broken valve or a scrape from a kerb. Driving it to a garage wrecks the tyre and can bend the rim. If a space-saver is fitted, it is for slow, short trips only. Leave the car in the court, at the station or in a central surface car park, not in the Kingfisher multi-storey.
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Flat tyre in Redditch? Stay in the bay and we come to the car.
