Rubber
Run-flats changed without dragging the car to a dealer
Drive a run-flat while it is down and it is usually scrap by the time you stop. The wall is a different job from a standard tyre, and a high-street bay will sometimes turn it away. We arrive with the machine that handles it, and we will not pretend ordinary rubber is like-for-like on a car specified for run-flat.
How this one runs
- 01Stiffer walls need the right kit — we do not lever them like a soft tyre
- 02We check whether the car actually requires run-flat before swapping the spec
- 03TPMS reset or note if the light will need a further visit
- 04If you drove it flat for miles, we inspect the wheel before hanging new rubber
Questions on this job
I drove on it for twenty minutes.
That is common and it often kills the tyre. Tell us how far. We will look at the rim. If the wheel is oval we will not waste a new run-flat on it.
Can you put ordinary tyres on instead?
That depends on the car, and on whether you have taken in what it does to you the next time a tyre goes down. Plenty of these left the factory with no spare at all, precisely because the tyres were run-flat. Where the swap is a poor idea for yours, you will hear that.
Are the German sizes on the van?
The common ones usually are. Staggered setups and the odder fitments get sourced in. Read the numbers off whichever tyre is still standing and send them over.