We fit your spare where you are. If you have not got one — and a lot of newer cars have not — we get you to a tire shop.
This catches people out constantly. Plenty of vehicles sold in the last decade come with a sealant kit and a compressor instead of a spare wheel, to save weight and boot space. The kit works on a small puncture in the tread. It does nothing at all for a sidewall tear, a blowout, or a tire that has come off the bead.
So the first question we ask is whether you have an actual spare. If you do, we fit it. If you do not, the honest answer is a short tow to a tire shop, and we will say so on the phone rather than driving out to tell you in person.
On a driveway, changing a wheel is a twenty minute job and you should feel free. On the shoulder of I-70 it is one of the more dangerous things a person can choose to do.
The flat is usually on whichever side the debris was, which is frequently the traffic side. Kneeling beside a jacked-up car a few feet from vehicles doing seventy is how people get killed, and Missouri’s move-over law exists precisely because it keeps happening. We would far rather come out.
If you are on a highway shoulder, stay out of the vehicle on the traffic side. Hazards on, everybody out on the non-traffic side, and behind a barrier if there is one. Then call (636) 466-8097 with the highway, your direction and the last exit.
Short version: do not, beyond getting yourself somewhere safe. A tire run flat destroys itself within a very short distance, and after that the wheel takes the load — which turns a tire bill into a wheel bill, and sometimes a brake and suspension bill as well.
If you feel a tire let go at speed, come off the accelerator gently rather than braking hard, hold the wheel straight, and let the car slow itself before steering to the shoulder.
A proper jack and the tools to get a seized wheel off, which is more often the actual problem than the tire itself — wheels corrode onto hubs, lug nuts get torqued on by impact guns, and locking nuts go missing.
We do not carry a warehouse of tires, so we cannot fit a new one at the roadside. What we can do is get the spare on, or get the vehicle to somewhere that can sort it properly.
If the sidewall is damaged, sealant will not fix it. It needs the spare or a tow.
Very common on newer cars. The kit handles small tread punctures and nothing else.
Spares lose pressure sitting in the boot for years. It happens more often than you would think.
Usually over-torqued or corroded. Worth not rounding them off yourself.
Do not attempt it there. Call us.
Common and frustrating. Tell us on the phone so we come prepared.
We hold the St. Charles County towing license under County Chapter 608 — approved by the County Chief of Police and renewed every year — and our trucks dispatch from inside the county rather than across the Blanchette Bridge. On a call where minutes matter, both of those are practical facts rather than marketing.
We are based at 1890 1st Capitol Dr. #553 in St. Charles and we hold the St. Charles County towing license, which is approved by the County Chief of Police and renewed every year. That is not a formality — it means the county knows who we are, and it is a meaningful difference from an out-of-county operator who happened to answer the phone.
Flat Tire Change calls often turn into Roadside Assistance, Emergency Towing, Jump Start and Fuel Delivery as well. One truck, one call, one bill. See everything we do, the towns we cover, or our highway response areas.
We fit the spare or get you to a tire shop. 24 hours a day across St. Charles County.
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