Mobile tyre fitting
in Barnet Gate.

A fitter at your car
in Barnet Gate.

Trouble at this junction of lanes is usually collected half a mile away and noticed on the doorstep. The A1 goes past at dual carriageway pace on its run to Stirling Corner, and what gets flung out of its lanes ends up in tyres heading down Barnet Road or Hendon Wood Lane. The warning light wakes up later, somewhere quiet on the A411, and the vehicle is left standing until somebody arrives with a jack and the correct size on board.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Level private ground is what the job needs, and at Barnet Gate that nearly always means the drive. Vehicles kept on Hertsmere Industrial Park or Borehamwood Industrial Park are seen to in the yard instead, provided whoever holds the gate key is expecting a van. The verge beside Barnet Road will not do: traffic goes by close, the ground gives way under a jack, and the Barnet Bypass slip road at Stirling Corner is worse again.

Three postcode districts meet around this scattering of houses, so the postcode is the single most useful thing to say on the phone: an address at Barnet Gate can read EN5, WD6 or NW7 depending on which way the lane runs. Calls come from the properties strung along Barnet Road, from Rowley Green and Arkley next door, and from drivers who have left the Barnet Bypass hunting for somewhere calm to stop. Nothing public exists to park in and there is no station either, so a drive or a private forecourt is where the work gets done. Hendon Wood Lane is too tight and too enclosed for a jack. The London side of the boundary lies within the ULEZ around the clock, although the charge applies to driving, not to a car up on a jack.