Finding a flat tyre at Kingham station after the Cotswold line home from Paddington is a lonely feeling. Do not drive it back to Chipping Norton; we come out to you.
Flats around Chipping Norton are often discovered far from home. Commuters return to Kingham or Charlbury station in the evening to find a tyre slumped on its rim, walkers come back to a car parked at Great Tew, and shoppers return to the New Street car park to a tyre gone soft. Driving on it down the B4450 or into town, even slowly, grinds the sidewall and usually spoils a tyre that a patch would otherwise have saved.
Keep the car parked and phone with the size and the exact spot. When the fitter arrives he takes the wheel off, finds what caused the flat and decides at the car: a tread puncture within the BS AU 159 limits is patched, while sidewall damage or a liner torn by driving calls for a new tyre. Both outcomes are priced during that first call.
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 Chipping Norton as well.
If the job turns out to be different, see broken tyre replacement, van tyre fitting in Chipping Norton or emergency tyre repair.
Both station car parks, if the operator agrees, are open and level, so fine for a jack; keep the parking ticket valid. A drive in Over Norton, the town's car parks and a pub car park in a village all, with the operator's permission, work too.
| Main roads | A44; A361; A3400 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Chipping Norton page
Flat on the B4437 through Charlbury? Put the hazards on and look for somewhere to pull fully off the road: Spendlove Car Park, the Charlbury Station Car Park or a quiet street in Finstock. Get passengers onto the pavement, then phone and say which road you are on, for example Sturt Road or Forest Road, plus the colour of the car.
A flat found outside the village at Great Tew or at Charlbury station means inspecting the remaining three before anything else, since one bad pothole can hit two wheels. Then inspect the flat one: a thorn or nail in the tread, a cracked valve, a scrape from a kerb near Bliss Mill. Driving it to a garage in town finishes the tyre. Any spare of the space-saver kind is only a low-speed stopgap, so the OX7 car is better left in the station or a pub car park.
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Found a flat around Chipping Norton? Stay put and call; we come to the car.
