The Ladywood van carries a whole tyre bay: changer, balancer and stock. Start to finish, the job happens beside the car in a permit bay or an office car park.
A car with a ruined tyre in Ladywood cannot be driven anywhere useful: the Middleway is no-stopping, Broad Street carries the tram, and the estate turnings are tight. The workshop has to come to the car. So the van pulls in next to it, Reservoir permit bay or Brindleyplace surface bay. The wheel comes off; the finished tyre is stripped on the changer in the van, the replacement seated on the rim and balanced, then the wheel goes back on and is torqued before the car has moved at all.
Send the sidewall code, the bay or street, and which wheel it is. Carrying a tyre in that size, the fitter cones off the working side of the Ladywood bay, jacks the car, and does the change inside the van. Pressures checked, wheel torqued, old tyre loaded. Tyre, fitting and the callout to B16 or B1 come as one figure on the call, so the amount is settled before the van moves.
The van sets up beside the car: Reservoir estate permit bay, Rotton Park drive, Brindleyplace surface bay, or a Five Ways car park with headroom. Nowhere on Broad Street, nowhere on the Middleway, never in the Five Ways underpass.
| Postcodes | B16, B1 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Fitting a tyre where a Ladywood car stands calls for a clear strip at the wheel where a jack goes in and a fitter can kneel, and ground that is reasonably flat. A Rotton Park drive, a permit bay on the Reservoir estate or a Brindleyplace surface bay all work if the van can park without blocking other cars or a bay entrance. Because the tyre machine and balancer are in the van, the car is not moved from its space at any stage.
The tyre bay comes to Ladywood; the car stays in its bay.
