The Nechells van is a tyre bay on wheels: changer, balancer, car and van stock. The whole job is done beside the vehicle in a yard, the Star City car park or a B7 street.
A vehicle with a ruined tyre in Nechells has nowhere sensible to drive: the A47 parkways have no verge, the A38(M) has nowhere to pull over, and the estate roads are broken. So the workshop comes to it. The van draws up alongside in the Saltley Gate yard or at Star City; the wheel is taken off, the dead tyre stripped on the van's changer, a new one seated and balanced, and the wheel is back on the vehicle and torqued without it moving.
Send the sidewall code, the location and which wheel. The fitter brings a tyre in that size to B7, cones off the working side, jacks the vehicle and does the swap inside the van; pressures set, old tyre loaded. Tyre, fitting and callout come as a single quote on the call, so nothing about the amount is decided at the yard.
Beside the vehicle in a unit yard off Heartlands Parkway with permission, a Star City bay, or a Nechells Green or Duddeston street with a metre free at the wheel. Not on the parkways or the Expressway.
| Postcodes | B7 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Mobile fitting in Nechells needs about a metre of space beside the wheel and flat, firm ground. Unit yards off Heartlands Parkway often have room, with site permission, and the Star City car park and the unrestricted estate kerbs of Nechells Green work too, provided the van blocks no loading bay, gate or neighbour. Everything travels in the van, including the tyre machine and balancer, so the vehicle never has to be moved.
The tyre bay comes to Nechells; the vehicle stays in the yard or the bay.
