Came back to Stratford-upon-Avon station or a Clopton driveway and found a tyre on the rim? Leave the car be. Rescue Tyres comes out and works out at the car whether to repair or replace.
In Stratford-upon-Avon a flat is often discovered after the car has sat a while. Commuters return from Birmingham to Stratford Parkway station, day visitors finish at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and cars on Welcombe or Clopton drives settle overnight after a slow leak picked up on the A3400. The instinct is to creep round to a garage. Every hundred yards on a deflated tyre folds the sidewall and grinds the inner lining, which can turn a simple repair into a scrapped tyre.
Stay put and ring with the registration, the size from a neighbouring tyre and exactly where the car is, such as the Parkway bay or the Welcombe address. To trace the leak, the fitter inflates the tyre or takes it off the wheel. If the leak is a tread puncture and the liner survived, it is repaired; a shredded lining, damaged sidewall or split valve means a new tyre. You hear both possible costs on the call before anyone sets off.
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 Stratford-upon-Avon as well.
Other jobs we do at the car include broken tyre replacement in Stratford-upon-Avon and emergency mobile tyre fitting.
The car parks at Stratford-upon-Avon station and Stratford Parkway, a road in Shottery near Anne Hathaway's Cottage where parking is legal, and drives in Welcombe, Clopton and Bishopton. Wherever the tyre went flat and the car is lawfully parked, it is handled there.
| Main roads | A46; A3400; A422 |
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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 Stratford-upon-Avon page
A flat on Ettington Road, the A429 near Wellesbourne, is no place to linger with traffic moving past. While you can still steer it, ease into the next turning, perhaps the lane signed for Loxley or Walton, and stop where the whole car is clear of the carriageway. Hazards on, everyone out by the kerbside door, then ring us with the road number and which wheel has gone down.
On a Tiddington drive, a flat deserves a walk round the other three first, since roads near building work can leave more than one tyre with a nail. Examine the deflated one for a screw among the grooves, a cracked or wobbling valve, or a kerb scrape from the Old Town streets. Resist driving it to a garage across Clopton Bridge: the sidewall folds and the tyre overheats inside. Any space-saver is a slow stopgap for short distances. Leave the car where it sits, if legal.
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Flat tyre in Stratford-upon-Avon? Keep the car parked and ring before it moves an inch.
