Mobile tyre fitting
in Cape Hill.

A fitter at your car
in Cape Hill.

Parking decides most tyre jobs on Cape Hill. Cars spend their nights half up the kerb on the terraced streets either side of the A4030, so a sidewall rubs against the kerb edge again and again and the damage shows as a bulge rather than a hole. Traffic on Waterloo Road and the Dudley Road adds the usual screws and glass. None of it needs a garage visit. Read the size off the tyre, give us the street, and the matching replacement goes into the van before it sets out from north London.

Drives, bays and car parks.

The Gilbert Road car parks are the most practical surface near the shops: level bays, space beside the car, and nobody queuing behind the van. The Stony Lane long stay car park is another. On the terraces the job goes ahead at the kerb once the car is fully off the footway, because a jack will not sit safely with two wheels up on the pavement. Business park yards off Heath Street suit vans. The A4030 carriageway, the bus stops and the loading bays outside the shops are not usable.

Callers here are mostly standing beside the car: shoppers back from the Cape Hill stretch of the A4030, residents on the terraces around Windmill Lane, and staff at the Heath Street Industrial Estate or Middlemore Business Park with a van that will not go out. Nobody sensible jacks a car on the shopping street itself, with buses and deliveries passing. A side turning works better, and so do the Gilbert Road car parks if the car rolled that far. Tollgate Shopping Centre and West Cross Shopping Centre have their own parking, used with the operator's say so. Out past the Dudley Road and City Road lies Birmingham, where the Clean Air Zone takes in everything inside the A4540 Middleway. Cape Hill is in Sandwell and has no such charge, and a stationary car being fitted is never charged by any scheme.