Mobile tyre fitting
in Addington.

A fitter at your car
in Addington.

Addington is thin on public parking and long on lanes, so a flat tyre is almost always found on a drive or at the side of a quiet road rather than in a car park. Kent Gate Way and Selsdon Park Road are the two main routes out, and both are where the damage tends to happen: a kerbed rim on a slip, a nail picked up and carried home. Seal Hollow Road and the smaller roads around it are where the car usually ends up when the pressure drops.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A household drive is the normal working surface in Addington, and most of them are deep enough that the van does not need to block the lane. Where a car sits on a narrow road, the fitter parks behind it with hazards on and works from the kerb side. Gravel and unmade ground is a different matter, so if the drive is loose stone the car is better rolled onto the road. Kent Gate Way and Selsdon Park Road are not workable at any hour.

Being on the outer edge of the borough changes the job in useful ways. The village has no public car park to work from, so nearly every Addington callout is a private drive, a quiet turning off the lane, or a stretch of road with room behind the car for the van itself. Traffic on the residential roads is light, which means a wheel can come off without an audience of passing cars. The exceptions are Kent Gate Way and the A2022 itself, where nobody should be standing beside a jacked car. Addington Village and Fieldway tram stops are interchange points rather than parking, so a car left near one needs a street name. Postcodes here run CR0 and BR4, which trips up a few deliveries. ULEZ covers the village like the rest of Greater London, and a parked car under repair pays nothing at all.