Forget towing a crippled car through the St Albans one-way system: tyre changer, balancer and stock arrive together at your Fleetville kerb or Colney Fields bay, and the car stays put.
Often the car simply should not turn another wheel. It might be perched on a shredded tyre in a Bernards Heath permit bay, sitting at Colney Fields shopping park with a space-saver that is itself flat, or parked in a Bricket Wood office car park with two casings ruined by the same pothole. Hauling it through narrow cathedral quarter streets on a low-loader makes far less sense than bringing every tool over.
Stowed inside that St Albans-bound van: a bead-breaking changer, an electronic balancer, jack, calibrated wrench and racks stocking popular AL sizes. Beside the car the wheel is unbolted, the ruined casing peeled from its rim by machine, a new tyre seated and inflated, weighted true on the balancer, then torqued back. Have that code and any locking key ready; your AL price is settled before the van sets out.
The van must park alongside: a Chiswell Green or Marshalswick drive, a quiet street off Hatfield Road, Colney Fields or a Bricket Wood business car park. Low-roofed Christopher Place and Maltings decks cannot take it.
| Postcodes | AL1, AL2, AL3, AL4 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
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For the whole tyre change to happen at a St Albans kerb, the van has to stop close to the wheel on level, firm ground, with room to swing tools. Chiswell Green and Marshalswick drives, legal permit bays and the open car park at Colney Fields all fit the bill. Christopher Place and the Maltings have low headroom, so the van cannot go in. Blocking a narrow one-way street is avoided. The car stays put while the machinery comes to it.
St Albans car stranded on a ruined tyre? The workshop van drives to it.
