Back at Smethwick Galton Bridge after the train and the tyre is flat on the rim: leave it, send the size and the bay, and a fitter comes to judge whether it can be patched or must be replaced.
A flat tyre in Smethwick can be discovered rather than felt. The commuter returns to the small car park at Galton Bridge or Rolfe Street station, the family gets back to the car after Warley Woods or Victoria Park, the nurse comes off shift at the hospital on Grove Lane, and one wheel is down on the tarmac. A screw from the Oldbury Road, a corroded valve, a slow leak from a kerb graze in Cape Hill: the tyre went down while the car stood still.
Leave it exactly where it is. A tyre rolled on the rim for a couple of hundred yards has its liner destroyed and cannot then be repaired. Ring with the size from the sidewall, where the car is, B66 or B67, and whether the van can get alongside. The fitter reinflates it, finds the leak and makes the call at the car: a mid-tread hole is patched to BS AU 159, a valve is swapped, anything worse is replaced from the van. The price is agreed before the visit.
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 Smethwick as well.
Related help from the same Brent Cross team covers broken tyre replacement in Smethwick and 24 hour tyre repair in Smethwick.
Galton Bridge and Rolfe Street car parks with the operator's agreement, kept short; Warley Woods and Lightwoods Park car parks; drives across Bearwood and Uplands; kerbs in Cape Hill and Rolfe Street with space for the van. Grove Lane hospital bays where the parking team allows it.
| Main roads | A457 Oldbury Road and High Street; A4030 Bearwood Road; A456 Hagley 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 Smethwick page
Flat on the move along Spring Hill (A457) or Ladywood Middleway (A4540)? Indicate, lose speed gently and pull off into a side street, because driving any distance on a flat ruins a tyre that might have been repairable. If the car is already parked near Winson Green Outer Circle station or in Summerfield, stay with it, note the street name and call so the fitter can assess it there.
A flat found outside a Rolfe Street terrace begins with a glance at the other three. Next, check the deflated tyre for a screw, a torn valve or a kerb scrape low on the wall. Please do not drive it to a Smethwick garage; a collapsed sidewall grinds itself to pieces over a surprisingly short run. The space-saver is only a slow stopgap, and on a narrow Cape Hill street it is usually best left stowed while you hold space for the van.
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Flat tyre in Smethwick? Leave it where it stands and the fitter comes to it.
