Harrow town centre has nowhere to limp to with a shredded tyre. The van brings the tyre machine, balancer and stock to a street near St Anns, and the car does not move.
Around St Anns and St Georges shopping centres and Harrow on the Hill station, the streets are controlled, the car parks are private and the A409 Station Road is a bus corridor. A car with a destroyed tyre has no way of reaching a garage. The van solves that. On board are a tyre changer, a balancer, a compressor and the common sizes, so the job from stripping the ruined tyre to torquing the wheel is finished beside the car on the street.
Read the size off the sidewall and name the exact street, because town-centre bays have time limits and the fitter must find the right one. A car inside a shopping centre car park has to be brought out to a public road first. Beside the car the old tyre is cut away, the new one mounted, spun on the balancer, refitted, torqued and inflated to the door-label pressure. The call fixes the price for tyre and fitting.
Public streets around Harrow town centre outside their restricted hours, roads near Harrow on the Hill station, and driveways in Roxeth and Headstone. Not in the St Anns or St Georges car parks, the station car park or on Station Road's bus lanes.
| Postcodes | HA1, HA2, HA3, HA5, HA7, HA8 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
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The van needs to park close, and the Harrow fitter needs clear space alongside the wheel. A level driveway in Stanmore or Pinner is ideal; the Hill's steep lanes are not, so roll the car down towards Roxeth if it moves. On a controlled bay near Harrow on the Hill station the car must be legally parked, and nothing should block a neighbour's crossover. With the changer and the balancing rig travelling out to Stanmore or Pinner, the car is never towed or driven flat.
The workshop comes to Harrow town centre; the car keeps its parking space until the tyre is on.
