Mobile tyre fitting
in Codicote.

A fitter at your car
in Codicote.

Because the B656 is both main street and through road, Codicote tyre trouble tends to start close to home. A screw is picked up somewhere on the run to Welwyn or Hitchin, the car is left outside overnight, and by breakfast the tyre is flat. That slow deflation is the simplest job there is. Say whether your address is SG4 or AL6, read out the code moulded into the tyre wall, and the replacement is chosen and loaded ahead of the drive up from north London.

Drives, bays and car parks.

In Codicote, count on the drive, the space beside the house, or a farm yard whose owner has agreed. The fitter needs level ground, a clear side of the car and room to lay a wheel down. Narrow lanes are no good, since there is nowhere to stand away from passing vehicles. The only parking the map shows belongs to the football club, which is not public, so the club's gravel is left alone.

Calls come from the High Street, the closes that branch off it, and the scattered houses along Codicote Road and Hitchin Road where the village gives way to fields. Most homes have a drive or a parking space beside the house, and the work happens there. The High Street is less useful: it carries the traffic between Welwyn and Hitchin, and a car jacked at its kerb stops both lanes, so a driveable car is better moved into a side road. Codicote lacks both a station and any public car park, which makes home the usual plan. Old Knebworth, Pottersheath, Ayot St Peter and Welwyn are close by and covered on the same trip.