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Cuffley, Hertfordshire · EN6
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Cuffley.
Cuffley runs along one road under four names, Station Road, Plough Hill, Northaw Road East and Cuffley Hill, every one of them the B156. Rescue Tyres mends and fits tyres at the car itself.
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Tyre trouble in Cuffley?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Cuffley.
One road carries this village, so it carries the tyre trouble too. The B156 brings everything through from Northaw at one end and Goffs Oak at the other, and the lanes off it are single track in places. Damage picked up out there tends to announce itself on the drive at home rather than on the spot. Cuffley is EN6 throughout, which keeps matters simple: a road name, a house number and the figures off the sidewall are enough.
| Postcode districts | EN6 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Station Road (B156); Plough Hill (B156); Northaw Road East (B156); Cuffley Hill (B156) |
| Nearest stations | Cuffley (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Sopers Road Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 10 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Potters Bar |
What we do in Cuffley
Tyre work in Cuffley.
Everything done in Cuffley happens beside the car. New rubber is ordered against the markings on what comes off, then balanced ahead of bolting the wheel home. A tread puncture gets the full treatment: tyre off the rim, inner lining examined, repair made from within to BS AU 159 where that standard allows. A tyre at the end of its life is exchanged and the wheel inspected. Locking nuts surrender to a socket when the key has gone astray. Calls are answered at all hours.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Cuffley
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive is first choice in Cuffley and most houses have one. Sopers Road Long Stay answers for a station car, since those bays are public and a wheel can be reached from every side. A yard on the Sopers Road estate does for a van, with a word to the site beforehand. Useless, by contrast, is the B156 where it narrows, along with the lanes towards Northaw and Cattlegate Cottages: a car up on a jack there leaves nothing for oncoming traffic to pass through.
Two sorts of call come out of Cuffley. The first is domestic: a car on a drive in the roads off the B156 with a tyre down, which is the easiest kind of visit there is, because the vehicle already stands on private ground and nothing has to be asked of anyone. The second is the station. Cuffley station sits just off Station Road and Sopers Road Long Stay takes the cars left there all day, so a flat tyre discovered on the way home is common. That car park is public ground with space enough to get round a wheel. Sopers Road Industrial Estate behind it accounts for the van work. The village is in Hertfordshire and driving in or out of it is charged nothing.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Cuffley.
The night work here is mostly the last train. A car left at the station since morning has a tyre flat on the rim and its owner is standing beside it wanting to get home. That call is taken whenever it comes in, the tyre size is confirmed, and what the work will come to is agreed there and then.
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What drivers say.
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"After damaging my tyre on a pothole I found myself in an unfamiliar area. Within 20 minutes of calling Rescue Tyres they came to my rescue. Wholeheartedly recommend."
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Cuffley FAQs
Questions from Cuffley.
Can a tyre be changed at Cuffley station?
Sopers Road Long Stay next to the station is public parking with room to work, so a wheel can come off in a bay there. Give the registration, describe whereabouts in the car park you left the car, and stay with it until the job is finished.
Do you come out to Northaw, Newgate Street and Cattlegate Cottages?
Those lanes are on the round, along with Hammond Street and the roads towards Goffs Oak. What the fitter needs is somewhere the car can be left standing on firm, level ground while the wheel is off, so a drive or a wide entrance beats a hedged lane.
Is there any charge for driving into Cuffley?
Nothing of the kind exists here. This is EN6 in Hertfordshire, with no clean air zone and no toll, and the nearest charging zone is the ULEZ well to the south. A stationary car having a tyre fitted would not be charged in any case.
Can a puncture be repaired instead of buying a new tyre?
Often it can. Where the nail went through the tread in the area a repair is permitted, and nobody has driven the car since it went down, the tyre is patched from within and put back on. Sidewall damage is a different matter and means a replacement.
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Station Road, the Sopers Road car park or a drive off the B156: the tyre is done there.