A tyre sitting flat after a day in London is no reason to limp home along the A418. Leave the car at Haddenham and Thame Parkway or on your Thame drive and we come to it.
Flat tyres turn up at bad moments around Thame: after the train back from Marylebone, with the car alone in the Parkway car park; on a Sydenham driveway on a Saturday morning; or in the Thame Community Hospital car park after a visit. The temptation is to creep a short way on it. Even a couple of miles flat shreds the inner wall and turns a repairable tyre into scrap.
Keep the car where it stands, give up on the boot pump if the tyre will not hold, and ring with the sidewall size and the location. At the Parkway or the Sydenham drive the wheel comes off, the fitter tracks down the leak and gives a verdict on the spot: a clean tread puncture is repaired to BS AU 159, liner damage or a sidewall hole means a new tyre. Both outcomes are priced 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 Thame as well.
Related help from the same Brent Cross team covers broken tyre replacement in Thame and emergency mobile tyre fitting in Thame.
The Parkway car park, where allowed, is large and level, which suits a jack and a wheel laid on the ground. Driveways, kerbs on Thame's permit-free streets and the hospital car park, with permission, once the site says yes, all work too; a narrow lane verge does not.
| Main roads | M40 J6; M40 J7; A418 |
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| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Thame page
On the B4009 stretch between Chinnor and Watlington, made up of Lower Road, Oakley Road and Shirburn Road, the first move with a flat is to indicate and roll into a village street or a gateway, never a blind bend. Pyrton has quieter roads to wait on. Put the hazards on, stand clear of the car and call with the road name.
Found flat on a Sydenham drive or at Thame Leisure Centre? Go round the car and press or gauge each of the other tyres, then study the deflated Sydenham tyre for a nail head, a torn or bent valve, or a scrape where a Thame kerb caught the sidewall. Driving it to a garage, even the short way into town, ruins the casing. Your space-saver might do at reduced speed, but leaving the car where it stands on a permit-free OX9 street is usually wiser.
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Found a flat in Thame? Leave the car there and call; we come out to OX9.
