Mobile tyre fitting
in Blackbird Leys.

A fitter at your car
in Blackbird Leys.

On an estate this size most tyres are ruined slowly rather than suddenly. Something goes into the tread on Hollow Way or Watlington Road, nothing happens for a fortnight, and then the car is sitting lower on one corner outside the house one morning. That suits mobile fitting perfectly, since the vehicle has already parked itself where the job can be done. Tell the fitter the size on the sidewall, the street, and whether the wheel is right down or just losing air.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Bays and off-street spaces on the estate carry most of this work, and they make perfectly good ground: level, hard and away from moving traffic. A driveway is better still where one exists. Oxford Retail Park and Templars Shopping Park have big surfaces but they are the operators' land, so treat a meeting there as something to ask about rather than assume. The Food Warehouse, M&S Simply Food and the Tesco Superstore beside them answer to the same rule. Garsington Road and Between Towns Road are for driving on.

Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys together hold more people than many of the villages around Oxford, and the call pattern shows it: estate streets one after another, the roads by Cowley Airfield, and the older terraces towards Church Cowley, Temple Cowley and Cowley Marsh. Addresses are mostly OX4 with a handful in OX3, so give the full postcode. Off-street spaces and bays beside the houses take nearly all the work, and the one thing that stops a job is a car wedged tight between two others, because a jack wants clearance on the side being lifted. If a vehicle has been left half up on a kerb, mention it when you ring. The B4495 Hollow Way, the B480 Watlington Road and the A4142 are through routes, so come off them before anything starts.