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Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire · AL2
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Bricket Wood.
Bricket Wood sits in the angle where the M1 and the M25 meet, with the A405 North Orbital Road along one edge and the station in the middle. Rescue Tyres turns up at the car rather than expecting the car to reach a depot.
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Tyre trouble in Bricket Wood?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Bricket Wood.
Most of what damages a tyre in Bricket Wood is passing through. The A405 North Orbital Road and the junction slip roads shed debris, and a car that picks it up on a Monday commute often gets home to AL2 before the tyre gives up. The rest is domestic: a kerb on a narrow lane, a screw out of a yard. Either way the car stays put on the drive while the tyre, the tools and the balancing kit come out to it.
| Postcode districts | AL2 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | North Orbital Road (A405); Mount Pleasant Lane (A405); Bricket Wood Junction |
| Nearest stations | Bricket Wood (National Rail), How Wood (National Rail), Garston (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 21A (Bricket Wood), about 0.5 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Blackbirds Sewage Treatment Works, Colne Way Industrial Estate, Hill Farm Avenue Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 11 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in St Albans |
What we do in Bricket Wood
Tyre work in Bricket Wood.
A tyre arrives in the size the sidewall gives, goes on and is balanced there and then. When a nail has found the tread, the tyre is lifted clear of the rim, read from inside and repaired to BS AU 159 as long as it sits where that standard allows. A burst brings a replacement, and the rim gets a hard look before anything goes back. A locking nut is drawn off once its key has gone. Cover runs round the clock, which counts for something on a road pattern this busy at odd times.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Bricket Wood
Drives, bays and car parks.
Driveways carry most of the work in AL2, with room enough on them to get a jack under and a wheel away cleanly. There are yards on Colne Way Industrial Estate and Hill Farm Avenue Industrial Estate, and a van is easiest dealt with in the corner of one with the site told beforehand. The car park at the station is railway property, lent rather than public, so ask. What will not do is the A405 itself or a motorway slip road: neither has safe standing room.
Calls come from the roads around the station, from Lancaster Grange and Smug Oak, and from the working units on Colne Way Industrial Estate and Hill Farm Avenue Industrial Estate. Mount Pleasant Lane and the streets off it are largely houses with drives, which is the easiest ground there is. Bricket Wood is without a public car park, so if the car will not reach home the answer is a drive, a yard, or a station bay with the operator's blessing, rather than a random kerb on the A405. This is Hertfordshire and outside the London ULEZ, so no emissions charge bites here at all, and in any case a stationary car losing a wheel is not a car being driven.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Bricket Wood.
Night calls here often begin on the motorway. A driver who has come off at the junction with a tyre going down rings from a side street or a village yard rather than the carriageway. No fitter touches a hard shoulder or an emergency area; should the car be immovable, that is a call to 999, or to National Highways on 0300 123 5000.
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What drivers say.
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"Good and reliable service in all conditions."
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Bricket Wood FAQs
Questions from Bricket Wood.
My tyre went down on the M25 close to Bricket Wood. What now?
Come off at the junction if the car will still roll and stop somewhere properly clear of the road, a side street or a yard. Nothing is fitted or repaired on a live carriageway, and the hard shoulder is never an option. Where it will not roll anywhere, ring 999 or National Highways on 0300 123 5000.
Can you fit a tyre at Bricket Wood station car park?
That car park is railway property rather than village land, so let staff know before a wheel comes off and keep the car inside a marked bay. Send over the bay, the plate and what is written on the tyre, and the job is done during your working day.
Is there public parking in Bricket Wood if my drive is full?
There is none. Bricket Wood runs no public car park, and what looks like one on a map is usually visitor space belonging to a business. A neighbour's drive or a yard on Colne Way Industrial Estate is the realistic option, and the fitter will say on the call whether it has room.
Does the London ULEZ reach Bricket Wood?
It stops at the Greater London boundary, which leaves AL2 outside it, and Hertfordshire operates no clean air charge of its own either. The charge only ever applies to a vehicle being driven, so a car standing on a drive with a wheel off is outside it twice over.
Nearby
Around Bricket Wood.
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Stuck in Bricket Wood? Call now.
Smug Oak, Lancaster Grange or a yard off the A405: a fitter brings the tyre to the car.