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Colney Hatch, Greater London · N11 and N12
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Colney Hatch.
The A406 runs past Colney Hatch at Pinkham Way, and Woodhouse Road carries the rest of N11 across it. Rescue Tyres comes out to wherever the car has stopped and changes the tyre there.
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Tyre trouble in Colney Hatch?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Colney Hatch.
Tyre trouble in this corner of N11 nearly always begins within sight of the A406. Pinkham Way and the North Circular push grit and shards into the nearside lane, and a tyre that takes one there tends to hold pressure until the car is back on a quiet street off Woodhouse Road. That is the usual call: warning light on, wheel already parked, nobody going anywhere. Read out the sidewall markings and the replacement is loaded before the van sets off.
| Postcode districts | N11, N12 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Pinkham Way (A406); North Circular Road (A406); Telford Road (A406); Friern Barnet Road (A1003) |
| Nearest stations | New Southgate (National Rail), Arnos Grove (London Underground), Bounds Green (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Friern Bridge Retail Park, Brunswick Industrial Estate, Hornsey Water Treatment Works |
| Distance from our base | about 4 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Barnet |
What we do in Colney Hatch
Tyre work in Colney Hatch.
The work here is mostly the ordinary sort. A tyre that has taken something small comes off the rim and gets looked at from the inside; where the entry lies in the central tread band and measures no more than six millimetres, it takes a plug and patch under BS AU 159. Shoulder damage, or anything into the sidewall, ends as a new tyre. A burst one is matched on size and rating, with the rim inspected first. Lost the locking key? The nut is wound out with a removal socket. Somebody takes the call at any hour.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Colney Hatch
Drives, bays and car parks.
A front drive beats everything, and plenty of N11 has one. Otherwise a residential street off Woodhouse Road will do, so long as the car is parked straight and the nearside wheel is the one on the pavement edge rather than out in the traffic. Woodhouse Road Car Park is the nearest public off-street parking worth naming. Supermarket bays here belong to shoppers and turn over all day, which makes them a poor place to leave a wheel off a car.
Calls divide neatly. There are the streets between Friern Barnet Road and Betstyle Circus, where houses mostly have their own parking at the front. There are the flats and terraces towards Bounds Green Road and Station Road, where the kerb is the only option and the fitter needs to be told which kerb, left or right. And there are working vehicles from Brunswick Industrial Estate, which tend to be off the road already. Two surfaces are refused outright: the carriageway of Pinkham Way, where nothing may stand still, and the slip roads onto the A406. The run of Station Road towards Arnos Grove is busy enough that a car left half in the lane is a hazard rather than a job, so get it into a turning first.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Colney Hatch.
Late calls off this stretch are usually drivers who have just left the North Circular behind and rolled into the first quiet turning available, plus delivery vehicles parked up in N11 whose owner spots a soft tyre before an early run. Someone picks up whenever you ring. The size gets checked against the markings, the cost is fixed on that call, and the van leaves once that is done.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"I called out for a mobile repair. The service was quick and quite reasonably priced. Would recommend."
ADAjith Das MenonGoogle review
Colney Hatch FAQs
Questions from Colney Hatch.
Can the fitter work on a side street off Woodhouse Road?
Ordinary residential streets are where most N11 jobs happen. Park the car straight, tell us the street name and which end of it you are at, and leave the wheel alone until the fitter arrives with the right tyre on board.
I have a flat on the A406 at Pinkham Way. What should I do?
Nothing stops on that carriageway. Carry on to the next turning and get the car onto a residential road where traffic passes at a distance, then ring. If it will not move at all, call 999 and wait away from the traffic rather than standing by the car.
Can you meet me at New Southgate station?
New Southgate is about half a mile from the middle of Colney Hatch and its parking belongs to the railway, so whether a wheel may come off there is the operator's decision. Ask before you book, or name a street nearby and meet the fitter on that instead.
My tyre went down outside Friern Bridge Retail Park. Can you come there?
The retail park is private ground and its car park is run by the people who own it, so the answer depends on them rather than on us. The simplest fix is to move the car onto Friern Barnet Road or a turning off it.
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Around Colney Hatch.
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Woodhouse Road, Betstyle Circus or a drive off Friern Barnet Road: the wheel is sorted where it stands.