A tyre flat to the rim on Winson Green Road is not for driving. Send the street and the sidewall size, and a fitter comes out to rule on repair versus new tyre at the car.
Winson Green's flats are found rather than felt: a nurse finishing at the City Hospital site walks out to a tyre on the floor, or a Brookfields resident finds one down on a Sunday morning. The temptation is to crawl to a garage on Dudley Road. That short crawl is what turns a repairable screw hole into a wrecked sidewall, because the rim crushes the tyre against the road with every turn. The car should stay put and the fitter should come to it.
Tell us the street or car park, whether the flat wheel is on the pavement side, and send the sidewall code. Our fitter inflates the tyre to trace the leak, removes it from the rim and inspects the inside. A tread puncture inside the BS AU 159 window gets patched; a leaking valve gets a new valve; anything worse means a fresh tyre from the van. Both prices are given by phone first, so whichever way it goes you already know the figure.
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 Winson Green as well.
If the job turns out to be different, see broken tyre replacement in Winson Green, emergency tyre repair or 24 hour tyre service.
Where the car is, if that is a legal space: a Winson Green Road terrace, a Foundry Road side street, a Gib Heath drive or a hospital bay with permission. A bus lane on the A457 or the Outer Circle tram route is not a place to leave it.
| Main roads | A457 Dudley Road; A4040 Outer Circle; A41 Soho 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 Winson Green page
Caught with a flat on City Road (A4040) or Winson Green Wharf Bridge (A4040)? Ease off, signal, and turn into a residential street toward Rotton Park rather than stopping on the bridge. Hazards on, wait on the pavement side, then ring us naming the road and the corner of the car affected. Pressing on for even a short distance normally finishes the tyre off.
When a Winson Green car is found flat, look at all four tyres before anything else. Across the deflated tyre itself, spot any screw, perished valve or kerb graze. Resist driving it to a garage along Dudley Road; a flat tyre rolled any distance chews up its own sidewall. A space-saver helps only for a short, slow trip and is not a lasting fix. Leave the car on the Gib Heath drive or the terrace where it was found, and ring.
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Flat in Winson Green? Stay put, send the street, and our fitter decides at the car.
