No tow truck, no workshop trip. For a tyre emergency off the A34, a fully equipped van reaches your parked car in Abingdon, Botley or Perry Barr and completes the job right there.
Being towed away from the A34 means recovery lorries, depot queues and a car left somewhere else overnight. A driver who has limped off at Botley Interchange into Seacourt park and ride, or into Fairacres retail park at Abingdon, wants the problem ended there. The same goes for a car sitting in the Newtown shopping centre car park in Aston. The best outcome keeps the car exactly where it has stopped.
Our van is the tyre bay. It carries a changer to lever the old tyre off the rim, a balancer to true the new one, a trolley jack, a torque wrench, valves and tyres in common sizes. The fitter completes removal, fitting, balancing and a final torque check at the kerb while you watch. One agreed figure covers all of it, fixed during the call before departure.
Seacourt and Redbridge park and ride sites, Fairacres retail park and Newtown shopping centre suit the van. It never sets up on the A34, a slip road or the Stratford Road bus lane; a car stranded in lane needs 999 first.
| Road | A34 Oxford to Chieveley and Birmingham Stratford Road |
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| Operator | National Highways (Oxfordshire section); local councils (Birmingham section) |
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For the van to do everything at the kerb, the car needs clear space on the damaged side, level ground for the jack and nobody's exit blocked. Marked bays at Fairacres retail park or Seacourt park and ride usually give that, while a private bay needs the owner's agreement. The car never has to move, since a changing machine and balancer ride along in the van. Say which side the damaged wheel is on so the van parks on that side.
Need the tyre job finished where the car stopped off the A34? Call us.
