Mobile tyre fitting
in Abington Vale.

A fitter at your car
in Abington Vale.

Living a stone's throw from the A45 means most miles out of Abington Vale start on a dual carriageway busy with lorries heading to and from Brackmills. Debris from that traffic is what usually ends up in a tread, and the car makes it home to its NN3 street before the pressure warning lights. The job then is simple: note the size printed on the tyre wall, text it along with the postcode, and the van is loaded with that exact tyre instead of a guess.

Drives, bays and car parks.

The drive at home is the obvious place, and most houses on the estate have one. Riverside Retail Park has a large surface car park where a car can be worked on in an outer bay, with the site's agreement. An Aldi or Co-op Food car park is short stay and crowded, so treat it as a last resort. Estate yards on Brackmills and Tungsten Business Park suit vans. The verges and lay-bys along the A45 are not usable at all.

This is a residential area of houses and drives off Rushmere Road and Park Avenue South, so most calls come from people at home. A second group rings from the shops: Riverside Retail Park sits by the A45, and the Weston Favell Shopping Centre lies a little way up the road. Working vehicles on Brackmills, the Crow Lane Industrial Estate and Tungsten Business Park account for the rest. A driveway is the first choice every time. The A45 itself, its slip roads and the Lumbertubs Way interchange are no places to stop and work, so a tyre that goes on the dual carriageway needs to limp off it first. Rushmere Road and Wellingborough Road are busy enough that a side street beats the kerb of either. Northampton levies no emissions charge of any sort.