The city sits on Portsea Island, with three roads on and off: the M275, the A3 at Portsbridge, and Eastern Road. That geography is not decoration. Wind, a spring tide at the Hard and a closed lane on a bridge all change how a job feels.
Drivers work the published callouts: the island, Gosport, Fareham, Waterlooville, Horndean, Whiteley (Hampshire), and the rest of the twenty places on the home page. There are no depots, branches or offices in those places. The van comes to the vehicle. If the vehicle will not roll, that is recovery, still from Portsmouth.
The work is ordinary and specific. New tyres fitted and balanced where the car is parked. A puncture mended when the injury is in the central tread. Locking nuts removed when the key has gone. Run-flats, vans, a flat battery, a car that has to be moved. No one here invents how long that will take.
What stays the same on every job
- The price is agreed before the van leaves.
- The size is read again at the wheel before anything comes off.
- A tyre that cannot be repaired is called that before a new one is fitted.
- Torque and pressures are set to the car, not to a general chart.
