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Chinatown, Greater London · W1D
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Chinatown.
Chinatown has no parking of its own. Much of it is given over to people on foot, and the roads around it, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road, stop for nobody. Rescue Tyres works wherever your car has actually ended up.
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Tyre trouble in Chinatown?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Chinatown.
The vehicles that come to grief here mostly belong to people working in it. Suppliers unload before dawn, kitchen staff leave cars on a bay a few streets off, and private hire drivers wait around Coventry Street for a pickup. The damage tends to be kerb damage, collected reversing a van into a loading space built for something smaller, or a screw out of the surface on Shaftesbury Avenue. Ring in with the sidewall marking and the name of the street the vehicle is on.
| Postcode districts | W1D, WC2H |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Shaftesbury Avenue (A401); Charing Cross Road (A400); Haymarket (A4); Coventry Street (A4) |
| Nearest stations | Leicester Square (London Underground), Piccadilly Circus (London Underground), Charing Cross (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Grand Vitesse Industrial Estate |
| 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 Westminster |
What we do in Chinatown
Tyre work in Chinatown.
Most of it is a plain replacement: the size read off the sidewall, the tyre carried out by the fitter, the wheel balanced before it goes back and the old casing taken away. Punctures are judged against BS AU 159, so a hole any wider than 6 mm, or one sitting outside the tread's middle band, becomes a new tyre rather than a repair. A burst tyre is changed with the rim inspected. A locking nut is wound off when nobody can lay hands on the key, and the line takes calls at any hour.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Chinatown
Drives, bays and car parks.
Practical surfaces are a pay-by-phone bay on one of the turnings, a loading bay early in the morning with the driver stood by it, or a basement under one of the buildings on the avenues. A car that still drives is better taken up to Bloomsbury Square, where a door opens fully and a wheel can be set down clear. The pedestrian streets are closed to a van, Shaftesbury Avenue has nowhere to pull in, and a pavement is not a surface anybody works on.
W1D and WC2H work is concentrated in the block held between Shaftesbury Avenue, Charing Cross Road and the Haymarket end of Coventry Street, and on the fringe towards Soho and Leicester Square where people leave a car for the length of a shift. No public car park stands inside the district, so the honest answer about where a wheel can come off is a paid bay on a side street, a hotel or office basement if the driver has the use of one, or the public car parks at Bloomsbury Square and off Oxford Street, both a walk away and both genuinely open to anybody. Charing Cross Road, the Haymarket and Piccadilly Circus allow no stopping at all.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Chinatown.
This district is busiest once the rest of town has shut, so a call long after midnight is nothing unusual. A delivery van goes flat mid round, or a chef walks out after the last service to a tyre sitting on the rim. Somebody picks up, the size is confirmed, and a time that works for you is fixed before anybody leaves.
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What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and efficient, really good service, sociable guy."
AAAdam AntarGoogle review
Chinatown FAQs
Questions from Chinatown.
Is there anywhere in Chinatown to leave a car while the tyre is done?
Nowhere inside the district itself, which has no public car park in it. A paid bay on a turning will do, a basement below one of the office blocks does better, and Bloomsbury Square Car Park takes anything still driveable. Tell the fitter which of the three you managed.
Can you fit a tyre on a delivery van before the restaurants open?
A good deal of this work happens then, while loading bays are free and the streets are empty. Give the tyre size off the van, the street it will be standing on and the window you have between drops, and the job is set up around that.
My car is on Charing Cross Road with a flat. Where do I move it to?
Off the main road, into one of the turnings towards Soho or Seven Dials, and park somewhere the car can stand without a bus waiting behind it. Charing Cross Road carries traffic all day and leaves a fitter nowhere safe to kneel down.
Does a tyre fitted in WC2H cost more because of the Congestion Charge?
That charge falls on a moving vehicle inside the zone in charging hours. The car in question is stationary and stays that way, so nothing is added to what you pay. You are quoted for the tyre and the callout on the phone, well before a van moves.
Nearby
Around Chinatown.
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Shaftesbury Avenue, Coventry Street or a bay behind Leicester Square: the wheel comes off there.