Off the Cross City train at Bournville station and the car in the small car park is flat: touch nothing, send the location, and the fitter settles repair or replacement at the car.
In Bournville a flat tyre is something you walk up to. The station car park after an evening in town, the drive on Mary Vale Road on Saturday morning, the street by Cotteridge Park after a walk, the Stirchley bay after a shop. The nearest garage is a short hop up the Pershore Road, and that hop is the mistake: driving on a flat destroys the inner liner in a few hundred yards, and a nail hole that was patchable becomes scrap.
Send a photo of the tyre and the sidewall marking, and say where the car is. The fitter comes to it, takes the wheel off and looks inside the tyre. A clean tread puncture is patched from within; a sidewall cut, a bead ruined by being driven on or a shredded liner means a replacement from the van's stock. The decision is explained before any work starts, and both possibilities were priced on the phone, so nothing is sprung on you.
On run-flat tyres? They behave differently once deflated, so check the handbook's limits and read our page on run-flat tyres; we fit replacement run-flat tyres at the car in Bournville as well.
Other services from the same Brent Cross team: broken tyre replacement in Bournville and van tyre fitting in Bournville.
Bournville station's small car park, drives on the estate, the streets round Cotteridge Park and Rowheath, Stirchley side roads behind the Pershore Road shops. The Cadbury World car park only with the attraction's agreement.
| Main roads | A441 Pershore Road; A4040 Outer Circle; A38 Bristol Road |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Bournville page
Feeling the car drag on Sir Herbert Austin Way or Bristol Road South? Stay calm, indicate early, and aim for a turning near Turves Green instead of any A38 bus stop. Once parked with hazards blinking and everybody standing on the pavement, text us your street plus whichever shop or sign is closest to the car.
When a Bournville tyre is found flat, press the other three first; more than one soft points elsewhere. Then scan the grooves for a nail, the valve for a break and the wall for a fresh scrape from the canal bridge kerbs. Driving to a garage along the Pershore Road does more harm than the puncture. A slim temporary spare suits gentle, brief trips, and swapping it beside the Stirchley bus stops is unsafe. The car should wait on the drive or in Bournville station car park.
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Flat in Bournville or Stirchley? Leave the car where it is and let the fitter come.
