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Chelsea, Greater London · SW3 and SW11
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Chelsea.
Chelsea meets the river along the A3212 Chelsea Embankment and Cheyne Walk, with Battersea Bridge taking traffic across at the western end. Rescue Tyres works on the car in SW3 where it stands, kerbside or in a basement.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Chelsea?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Chelsea.
Trouble in SW3 usually announces itself on the way home over a bridge. Battersea Bridge and the A3220 feed a steady stream of cars onto Cheyne Walk, and a tyre that has picked something up on that run is often flat by the time it is back on the street. From there nothing moves: the roads are narrow, the bays are full and the car is going nowhere until the wheel is sorted. That is the job, done where the car is standing.
| Postcode districts | SW3, SW11 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Chelsea Embankment (A3212); Cheyne Walk (A3220); Battersea Bridge Road (A3220); Battersea Bridge (A3220) |
| Nearest stations | Sloane Square (London Underground), Battersea Park (National Rail;London Overground), Queenstown Road (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Brompton Cross District Shopping Centre., Parkfield Industrial Estate, Steel Works |
| Distance from our base | about 7 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Kensington and Chelsea |
What we do in Chelsea
Tyre work in Chelsea.
Sizes run large here and often run-flat, so the order is built from the sidewall: width, profile, rim diameter, load index, speed rating and any manufacturer code. All three tiers of make are available. Tread damage of the sort BS AU 159 permits is worked from behind the liner, the cover taken off its rim and inspected first. A split, or a bulge, means a new tyre plus a check of the rim for cracks. Locking nuts come away without a mark on the alloy. Nights and weekends are covered.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Chelsea
Drives, bays and car parks.
A basement or mews garage beats everything else, because the car is off the street and there is light. Ask the building first: some older SW3 basements have too little headroom for a high-roof van, in which case the car comes up to the street. A resident bay works if the car is wholly within the markings and the bay is not suspended. Sydney Street car park takes a car with enough air left to get there. Cheyne Walk itself is not, nor is the Embankment.
The calls divide fairly neatly. From the streets between the King's Road and the Embankment, where residents' bays are the only parking and a permit in the window is what makes the job possible. From World's End at the Cremorne Road end, where the flats have marked bays and courtyards. And from buildings with basement garages, which are the best working space in Chelsea provided the porter is expecting a van and the headroom takes one. Chelsea Embankment and Grosvenor Road are red route, as is the A3220 over Battersea Bridge, so none of those is an option. Sydney Street car park is public and workable. ULEZ hours here are all of them, every day, and none of it lands on a car that is not moving.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Chelsea.
Late calls in Chelsea come from people back from an evening out who find the car down in its bay, and from residents who want it seen to before the street fills up in the morning. Whatever time it is, somebody answers, and you are told what the job costs before a spanner comes out.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and reliable."
KSKhurram ShehzadGoogle review
Chelsea FAQs
Questions from Chelsea.
Can the fitter work in a basement car park under a Chelsea block?
Often, though it depends on the building. Let the porter or concierge know the van is coming, check the height barrier, and make sure the bay has room to swing a door and a wheel. Where the headroom is too low, bringing the car up to a street bay solves it.
A flat on Chelsea Embankment. Is it all right to stop there?
The Embankment itself is red route and stopping is banned along it. Keep rolling at low speed and turn into one of the residential streets set back from the river, or cross to a side road, then call with the street and what the sidewall says.
My car takes run-flat tyres. Can one be fitted at the kerb in SW3?
Run-flats are ordered in the exact marking and go on at the kerb the same as anything else, because the van carries the fitting and balancing kit. Photograph the sidewall so the load index, the speed rating and any manufacturer code get matched rather than guessed at.
Is Sydney Street car park somewhere you can fit a tyre?
It is public parking and there is space to work around a car, so it suits anyone whose vehicle still drives. Park away from the entrance lanes, keep the ticket valid, and say which row the car is in when you ring.
Nearby
Around Chelsea.
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Cheyne Walk, a World's End courtyard or a bay off the King's Road: the tyre goes on there.