★★★★★
"Great service, fixed my punctured tyre quickly and the best prices for mobile repairs."
AAmirGoogle review
Aldwych, Greater London · WC2B and WC2A
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Aldwych.
Aldwych is a crescent of road with Kingsway running north out of it and the Strand at either end, which makes it somewhere traffic goes through rather than stops. Rescue Tyres gets the tyre onto the car wherever it has come to rest.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Aldwych?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Aldwych.
Work in WC2B comes out of the buildings rather than off the road. Offices, colleges and hotels fill this block and their cars sit in basements or on metered bays for most of the day, which is exactly where a slow puncture gets noticed. The crescent itself feeds Waterloo Bridge and the Strand, so anything failing on it has to be taken off at the first turning. Kingsway, High Holborn and Fetter Lane offer the nearest places to pull up.
| Postcode districts | WC2B, WC2A, WC2R, WC2E |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Aldwych (A4); Kingsway (A4200); Strand Underpass (A4200); Strand (A4) |
| Nearest stations | Temple (London Underground), Holborn (London Underground), Covent Garden (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Grand Vitesse Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 6 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Westminster |
What we do in Aldwych
Tyre work in Aldwych.
Most jobs in this block are replacements and repairs on ordinary car sizes, plus a fair share of van tyres for trades working in the buildings. The tyre is matched to the full marking on the sidewall, then fitted and balanced beside the vehicle. A tread puncture takes an internal patch-plug when BS AU 159 allows one, and a refusal when the damage sits in the shoulder. A burst tyre means a new one, with the bare rim given an eye over first. Locking nuts come off, and the phone is answered around the clock.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Aldwych
Drives, bays and car parks.
A metered bay on one of the quieter turnings off Kingsway is the everyday answer, paid up far enough ahead that nobody is watching a clock. A basement under one of the office blocks is better again, with the car park office told beforehand. Bloomsbury Square and Saffron Hill are where to head if the car can still be driven to one. Off the list: the crescent, the bridge approach, any loading bay in use, and the pavement, which is no working surface at all.
Calls arrive from the crescent and the buildings inside it, from Kingsway heading up towards Holborn, and from the Strand end near St Clement Danes and Temple. It is basement parking and metered bays throughout, with nothing resembling a driveway anywhere in WC2B. Public parking means Bloomsbury Square to the north or Saffron Hill over towards Farringdon, each a short drive and each able to take the job. A fitter does not work on Aldwych, on Kingsway, in the Strand Underpass or on the Victoria Embankment, every one of them a moving-traffic road with no stopping permitted. Fleet Street is the same. The ULEZ covers the district, and the Congestion Charge reaches this far east too.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Aldwych.
Nights here belong to cleaners, security staff and hotel porters, and they are usually the ones who spot a flat tyre in a basement bay long after the offices have emptied. The call gets taken whatever the time, the size is confirmed from the sidewall, and nothing is ordered until the figure has been put to you.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and great service! Thanks for the Friday night rescue."
LBLewis BourneGoogle review
Aldwych FAQs
Questions from Aldwych.
Can a tyre be changed on the Aldwych crescent itself?
Not on the crescent. It is a one-way run between the Strand and Waterloo Bridge with traffic moving all the time and no gap where a car could sit safely. Turn up Kingsway or into a quieter turning, park there, and ring from it.
Which public car park is closest to WC2B?
Bloomsbury Square Car Park up beyond Holborn, or Saffron Hill Car Park over towards Farringdon. Both are underground, public and roomy enough for the work to happen alongside the car. Say which of the two and which level you are on.
The office basement has a low ramp. Will your van fit?
Worth measuring before the fitter sets out. A van carrying fitting and balancing kit stands taller than an ordinary car, and some of these older basements were built for neither. If it will not go in, the car comes up to a metered bay instead.
Can a puncture picked up on Kingsway be repaired at the office?
Usually, if the object went through the centre of the tread. The wheel comes away, the casing is opened up and read from the inside, then given a combined plug and patch under the British Standard. Damage to a sidewall, or anything sitting in the shoulder, gets a new tyre instead.
Nearby
Around Aldwych.
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Kingsway, the Strand end of the crescent or Bloomsbury Square: the tyre is done at the car.