★★★★★
"Had two tyres replaced and was really impressed. Friendly and efficient, job completed quickly. Highly recommend!"
PNPegah NourmandGoogle review
Burford, Oxfordshire, near West Oxfordshire · OX18
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Burford.
Burford in West Oxfordshire runs downhill, the A361 High Street dropping away from the A40 at Burford Roundabout towards Fulbrook Hill. Rescue Tyres comes to the car wherever in OX18 it has finally stopped.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Burford?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Burford.
The slope explains most Burford tyre jobs. Cars park at an angle on the High Street, wheels get nudged into kerbs going in and out, and a scuffed sidewall shows up as a soft tyre a week later. The rest arrives off the A40 at the top of the town. Either way the car is usually already stopped somewhere in OX18 by the time anybody rings, and the fitter comes to it.
| Postcode districts | OX18 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Burford Roundabout; Oxford Road (A40); High Street (A361); Lower High Street (A361) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Burford Wastewater Treatment Works |
| Distance from our base | about 62 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Witney |
What we do in Burford
Tyre work in Burford.
Burford work is mostly ordinary car tyres, replaced or repaired, with the occasional van in on a trade call. A tyre is bought against every marking the old one carries, then balanced before the wheel is bolted back up. Tread punctures come off the rim for an inside inspection and a patch-plug where BS AU 159 permits one. A tyre that has burst is exchanged and its rim examined. A wheel locked by a nut with no key to hand is opened without damage. New tyres keep the manufacturer's warranty, and the callout line holds open overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Burford
Drives, bays and car parks.
Level ground first, which in the middle of Burford means Guildenford car park or a private drive. Out in the lanes it means a farmyard, a gateway with hardstanding, or the parking at the house. The High Street itself, angled and busy, is somewhere a car can stop but not somewhere a wheel should come off, and the A361 down towards Fulbrook Hill is the same. Anywhere the car will hold still and level, with a couple of feet of space around the wheel, gets used.
Callers are the High Street and Lower High Street addresses, the lanes running off towards Fulbrook, Signet and Taynton, and the properties out at Swinbrook and Westwell that use this town as theirs. Guildenford is the public car park, and for a car that still drives it is the obvious place to meet: level ground, space around the vehicle, and no working on the hill. The hill is the constraint. A car jacked on the High Street is a car jacked on a gradient in front of everything coming down it, so that gets moved before a wheel comes off. Inn car parks are private ground and not an option. Away from the centre, a drive or a farmyard does the job perfectly well.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Burford.
Night calls in a town this small are few, and they matter more for it. Somebody back late off the A40, a flat found on the High Street after closing, a car nobody wants to take down the hill soft. Whatever hour it rings, the call is picked up and the cost of the visit is agreed there.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and reliable."
KSKhurram ShehzadGoogle review
Burford FAQs
Questions from Burford.
Which Burford does this page cover?
The Oxfordshire one, OX18, on the A361 below the A40 roundabout, rather than the others sharing that name elsewhere. Anywhere between Fulbrook, Taynton, Swinbrook and Westwell counts as local to it, and the fitter comes out to all of them.
Can I meet you at Guildenford car park?
Guildenford suits the job as long as the car is drivable, because the ground is flat and there is room to work all the way round the wheel. Leave a gap from the entrance, then send through the tyre size and roughly whereabouts in the car park you have stopped.
The car is parked on the High Street slope. Will you still change the tyre?
A gradient like that one is no place for a jack, so the first move is getting the car onto level ground, often no further than Guildenford. Once it stands flat the wheel comes off and the work takes its usual course from there.
Is there a charge for driving an older car into Burford?
No scheme of that sort operates in West Oxfordshire. Charging on this patch is confined to London, the area inside the Birmingham ring road, and a few streets in central Oxford. A car parked in OX18 having a tyre fitted is charged nothing regardless.
Nearby
Around Burford.
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High Street, Guildenford car park and the lanes to Fulbrook: nobody has to drive anywhere.