Mobile tyre fitting
in Belgravia.

A fitter at your car
in Belgravia.

A kerb strike is the usual culprit in SW1X. A wheel catches a high granite kerb on a narrow street, the sidewall takes the hit, and the tyre either goes down there and then or over the following day or two. Because the streets around Grosvenor Gardens and Victoria Street are controlled from kerb to kerb, the car ought to stay precisely where it is. Ring with the full size code off the tyre and it is brought to that address.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Best of all is a mews or a private forecourt, where a fitter has room on both sides and nothing is passing. A resident or paid bay off the squares works too, provided the car can be jacked at the proper point on the sill without the pavement getting in the way. Apcoa Ecclestone Bridge and NCP London Pavilion Road are the off-street choices within reach, each subject to its operator. Old setts and a steep camber are what most often mean shuffling a car a few feet first.

Addresses here fall into a few kinds and each is worked differently. The mews, private and level in most places, are the easiest thing to jack a car on, allowing for the older setts that can put a jack out of true. The terraces and mansion blocks around the garden squares leave a permit bay as the only option, with the car inside the markings. Blocks with parking below them depend on the building, not on us. Round the edges run Grosvenor Place, Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road, red routes with buses on them, and not one of the three is anywhere to stand a car with a wheel off. Sloane Square and Victoria are both a walk away, which helps if the car is being left.