Emergency fitting in Didcot
The workshop comes to Didcot.
A damaged tyre makes any trip risky, and in Didcot reaching a workshop can mean the busy A4130, the Milton Park roundabouts or the roads through Broadway. Drivers at Harwell Campus or out in Blewbury may have a long way to go. Without a usable spare, or with a locking nut key missing, even changing a wheel at the roadside is out of the question, and the car simply cannot go anywhere.
Everything a tyre bay has is loaded in the van: a machine that takes the tyre off and on the rim, a balancer, torque wrench, valves and popular sizes of tyre. The size and location are taken on the call and the price confirmed. In Didcot the wheel comes off, the worn casing is prised from the rim, its replacement is mounted and checked for balance, and the wheel goes back on at a Ladygrove kerb, torqued correctly, the old tyre loaded up for disposal.