Walked out of Rickmansworth station to a flat tyre in the barrier car park? Do not try to drive out. Ring, and once there the fitter works out whether it can be patched or needs swapping.
A flat tends to show itself after the car has sat all day: the Metropolitan line stations at Rickmansworth, Croxley and Chorleywood with their barrier car parks, or a drive in Mill End after a weekend away. The barriers make it tempting to limp out and find help elsewhere, but a fully deflated tyre driven even to the Batchworth roundabout is likely to be destroyed, costing a replacement that a simple repair could have avoided.
Leave the car in its bay or on the drive. Phone with the address or bay number, the ticket details for a station car park, and the size from the sidewall. The car is jacked in its bay or on the Mill End drive and the wheel taken off so the tyre can be checked properly. If the damage is a simple tread puncture it is repaired; if the sidewall is crushed, a new tyre is fitted. You approve the price 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 Rickmansworth as well.
Need something else? Our pages on broken tyre replacement in Rickmansworth and emergency tyre replacement in Rickmansworth explain those jobs.
A bay in any of the three station car parks provided you stay with the car, a Mill End or Chorleywood driveway, or the Aquadrome car park. The short-stay bays round the town's one-way system are awkward places to work.
| Main roads | M25 J17; M25 J18; A412 |
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| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Rickmansworth page
Feel a tyre go flat on Chorleywood Road or Chenies Road, the A404 heading west, and what you do next matters: indicate, slow right down and turn into a residential road near Little Green or Chandler's Cross. Hazards flashing and everyone on the footway, then phone. Mention which of the two A404 roads you are on and any house name or sign in view.
Spotting a flat on a Croxley Green or Heronsgate car, look over the remaining tyres first; two soft at once point away from a single nail. Then study the flat one. A screw head in the tread, a valve cap gone and the stem bent, or a fresh graze from a Batchworth kerb each tell the fitter something useful. Space-savers carry a printed speed cap and suit only a slow hop to safety, never the A412 towards a Watford garage.
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Flat tyre anywhere in Rickmansworth? Leave it parked and phone us.
