No trailer, no tow, no garage queue in Northampton or Coventry: the van brings the tyre changer, balancer and stock to your A45 car park, and the job finishes where the car stopped.
Without a mobile fitter, a damaged tyre on the A45 means a recovery truck to a depot or a nervous drive on a space-saver. From Rushden Lakes that is a slow trip into Wellingborough; from the Swan centre it is a crawl down Coventry Road. Space-savers are meant for low speeds and short distances, which rules out the Nene Valley Way for any sensible length. Bringing the workshop to the car avoids all of it.
Everything a tyre bay needs is on board: a changer to break and seat beads, a balancer for the wheel, jacks, torque wrench and stocked tyres. Jacking, wheel removal, tyre swap, balancing and refitting all happen inside one Sixfields or Swan centre parking space. Share the size and whether the surface is tarmac or gravel, and the cost is settled over the phone first.
The van needs a level space alongside the car: Sixfields and Riverside retail parks, Rushden Lakes, Cannon Park, the NEC car parks, the Swan centre. A45 slip roads, clearway verges and bus lanes are ruled out. Immobile on the Nene Valley Way? National Highways and 999.
| Road | A45 Northampton to Thrapston and Coventry to Birmingham |
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| Operator | National Highways (Northamptonshire section); city councils (Coventry and Birmingham) |
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The job fits in one parking space plus the room to open the van alongside. Level tarmac matters, since a slope at a Thrapston kerb or loose gravel makes jacking unsafe. Retail bays at Sixfields and Riverside work if the next space is free; private workplace yards at Brackmills need the owner's say-so. Park so no other driver is boxed in. The machine, balancer and tyres travel to you, which means the car never has to crawl along Coventry Road on a damaged wheel.
Full tyre fitting where you are parked off the A45. Call with the size.
