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Castelnau, Greater London · SW13
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Castelnau.
Castelnau is a road before it is a district, the A306 running south off Hammersmith Bridge Road into Barnes. Rescue Tyres sets off from Brent Cross and deals with the wheel kerbside in SW13, any day of the week.
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Tyre trouble in Castelnau?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Castelnau.
Very little tyre damage originates in Castelnau itself; it arrives with the car. The Great West Road and the Hammersmith Flyover feed this corner of SW13, and a screw collected on the A4 will often hold pressure until the car is standing outside the house again. By then the pressure warning has usually been on for a day. Read out the markings from the sidewall along with your postcode, and the matching tyre is aboard before the fitter leaves north London.
| Postcode districts | SW13 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Great West Road (A4); Hammersmith Flyover (A4); Hogarth Roundabout; Burlington Lane (A316) |
| Nearest stations | Ravenscourt Park (London Underground), Hammersmith (District and Piccadilly lines) (London Underground), Hammersmith (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines) (London Underground) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 1 (Chiswick Roundabout), about 1.8 miles away |
| Distance from our base | about 6 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Hammersmith and Fulham |
What we do in Castelnau
Tyre work in Castelnau.
Everything on offer here concerns the tyre and the wheel it sits on. A fresh cover can be sourced to whatever is stamped on the one coming off, from value makes up to the premium names, taking in run-flat, performance, van, four-wheel-drive and electric sizes. A nail in the tread means breaking the tyre down, reading the casing from the inside and patching it properly under BS AU 159 if it qualifies. A shredded tyre means a new one plus a look at the rim. A rounded locking nut is drawn out first.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Castelnau
Drives, bays and car parks.
A private frontage is the easy answer here, and plenty of the houses along Castelnau have one, so the car can stay where it stands. Failing that, a resident bay on a quieter turning does the job, provided the car sits square to the kerb with room to work on the offside. There is no public parking ground anywhere in the district, so a driveable car is better taken to a bay near Barnes Bridge station than left hunting for one. The A306 through lanes and the Great West Road slip roads are useless for this.
Calls come off the length of Castelnau itself, from the side turnings between it and the river, and from the Church Road end where SW13 shades into Barnes proper. Almost everything here is either a controlled bay or a short private frontage, and the frontages are the useful ones: a car pulled in off the road can be jacked without anybody standing in a running lane. The A306 carriageway is not usable, least of all on the approach to Hammersmith Bridge Road, where a stopped car blocks it outright. This bank of the river sits in Richmond upon Thames rather than Hammersmith and Fulham, but London means ULEZ, and the ULEZ bills a vehicle for moving, so nothing is owed while the car sits with a wheel off.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Castelnau.
Late calls from Castelnau tend to be people home from across the river who spot a soft tyre on the frontage, or somebody who has left the Great West Road and turned in here to take a proper look. The phone is manned at any hour, and what the tyre plus the callout comes to is named while that conversation is going on.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Good communication, excellent work and takes the initiative. Happy to go the extra mile, highly recommended if you're in a tyre-related bit of bother!"
DFDavid FordhamGoogle review
Castelnau FAQs
Questions from Castelnau.
Is Castelnau covered even though it sits in Richmond upon Thames?
The borough boundary makes no difference to the round. Castelnau, Church Road and the SW13 turnings between them are all worked, and so is Barnes beyond them. Ring or message 07473 720871 with the postcode; you will be told when to expect the fitter before the call ends.
Where should I park if the car is on Hammersmith Bridge Road with a flat?
Off it, into one of the residential turnings on the Castelnau side, somewhere the car can stand without traffic squeezing past its flank. Bridge Road itself is too narrow to leave a jacked car in. Name the street once you are parked and the fitter comes to you there.
Can a puncture be repaired on the street outside the house in SW13?
A kerbside repair is routine work. The wheel is lifted, the cover parted from the rim and the inside of the casing read. Where the object landed in the middle band of the tread and left an injury under 6 mm, the tyre is patched internally under BS AU 159 and goes back on.
Is there anything to pay under the ULEZ while the tyre is changed?
Nothing at all. Every London borough falls inside the zone at every hour, but the daily charge falls on a non-compliant vehicle being driven, not on one left at rest. A car on a frontage or a resident bay in SW13 with its wheel removed triggers no charge whatever.
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Around Castelnau.
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Castelnau, Church Road or a resident bay near Barnes Bridge station: the fitter comes to the car.