Mobile tyre fitting
in Chessington.

A fitter at your car
in Chessington.

This is a driving suburb, and most of what turns up here was collected on an ordinary run: the school route, the shops, the pull out to the A3 at the Hook Underpass. Something small goes into the tread unnoticed, the pressure light wakes up two days later outside the house, and the car gets left where it stopped. That is the simplest job there is. The fitter arrives with the size already on board, or lifts the wheel off and mends the tyre in place.

Drives, bays and car parks.

The drive at the house, then. Failing that, a quiet residential street with the car parked square to the kerb and room for the fitter to kneel on the traffic side without being in the road. Station parking at Chessington North and Chessington South belongs to the railway, so working in one depends on the operator being content with it, and that is worth asking before you book. Supermarket bays at the Lidl or the Co-operative are short stay and busy, which makes them a last resort rather than a plan.

Callers are spread right across KT9: the streets between Chessington North and Hook Road, the roads heading south past Chessington South towards Malden Rushett, and the pockets that back onto West Ewell and Claygate. Most jobs finish on a driveway, which is always the first choice. Where there is no drive, a residential side road does the job, so long as the car is not parked into a bend. The Churchfields Recreation Ground car park suits a car that has made it that far under its own steam. Two places are out: the kerb of the Leatherhead Road, which carries through traffic all day, and the A3, where stopping is not permitted at any point.