The van that comes to Hounslow is a rolling workshop, carrying the changing machine, a balancer, a torque wrench and a tyre in your size. Your car never moves from its space.
In a borough whose main roads, the A4, A30 and A315, are all red routes, and where much of Chiswick, Brentford and Isleworth is permit-controlled, moving a car with a bad tyre to a garage is often the hardest part. Mobile fitting removes that step. A bay at Chiswick Business Park, a drive in Osterley, a street in Feltham near the station, or a staff car park by Heathrow becomes the workshop for the length of the job.
Up goes the car on its proper lifting point, off comes the wheel, and the machine strips the old tyre from the rim before the new one is mounted and pumped to the pressure on the door plate. Spun up on the balancer, refitted, nuts torqued in sequence. There is nothing left for you to do afterwards, and the scrap tyre travels back on the van. You supply the sidewall size and the location, and agree the figure before the fitter sets off.
Any flat, firm spot the van can park beside: a drive in Cranford or Heston, office car parks at Chiswick Business Park, the streets near the Gtech Community Stadium on non-match days, and Hounslow's town car parks. Not on the red routes or in the bus station.
| Postcodes | TW3, TW4, TW5, TW7, TW8, TW13, TW14, W4 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
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The tyre machine and balancer on the van do the whole job at the wheel, so a Hounslow car never has to be driven or towed. What the fitter needs is working space beside the affected wheel, a reasonably level surface to jack on, and room for the van where it will not obstruct a neighbour's drive or a bus route. Heston drives, Chiswick Business Park bays and residential turnings off the A312 suit it; red routes and steep slopes do not.
The workshop comes to your Hounslow car; the car goes nowhere.
