Mobile tyre fitting
in Bishop's Tachbrook.

A fitter at your car
in Bishop's Tachbrook.

Being this close to the motorway shapes the calls. A tyre damaged on the M40 often limps off at Oakley Wood and along the B4087 into the village before the driver stops to look, and the rest come from the Banbury Road and the lanes heading for Barford. For a car sat at home the job is simple: read the size off the tyre wall, add the postcode, CV33 for most of the village, and a matching tyre rides out with the fitter.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A drive or a frontage is where most village jobs end, with the car left exactly where it stopped. On the industrial estates a unit yard or a marked staff bay does the job, provided site security expects the van. Public parking is absent from the village, and a pub car park belongs to the pub, so a quiet residential turning is the alternative when a drive is not available. The B4087 and B4100 carriageways are never used, since both carry traffic heading for the motorway.

Callers here are mostly at home, on the village streets off Oakley Wood Road and Tachbrook Road, where houses tend to have a drive or a frontage to work on. Some are at work instead, on the Trident Park or Heathcote industrial estates up towards Warwick Gates and Whitnash, where a van or a staff car can be seen to on site once security has been warned. What nobody should do is stop on the M40 and wait for help. No tyre work happens on the motorway, hard shoulder and emergency areas included, so leave at junction 13 or at junction 14 for Barford, find a safe road well away from the traffic, and phone from there. If the car is immobile and you feel at risk beside it, dial 999 before anything else; National Highways answers on 0300 123 5000.