"Very quick and efficient service."
Mobile tyre fitting
in De Parys.
De Parys sits on the MK40 edge of Bedford town centre, with Goldington Road and St Peters Street carrying the traffic past its terraces. Rescue Tyres fits the tyre in the permit bay where your car already stands.
A fitter at your car
in De Parys.
Most tyre calls from De Parys begin with a car that cannot easily be moved. The streets are terraces close to the centre, most of them under permit control, and a space given up is hard to win back. So the wheel gets dealt with in the bay. Damage tends to come from town driving: a kerb clipped turning off The Broadway, a screw picked up on Tavistock Street, a slow leak found after the car has stood for a few days. Quote the numbers moulded into the tyre wall and a matching one is loaded.
| Postcode districts | MK40, MK41 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Goldington Road (A4280); St. Peter's Street (A4280); The Broadway (A600); Harpur Street (A4280) |
| Nearest stations | Bedford St Johns (National Rail), Bedford (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | St Johns Retail Park, Alban Retail Park, Murdock Road Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 40 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Bedford |
Tyre work in De Parys.
Work in De Parys is mostly repairs and single replacements. Anything lodged in the tread means the tyre coming off the rim so its inner lining can be seen, and a patch and plug goes in from inside when the hole sits in the band BS AU 159 permits. A tyre that cannot be saved gives way to one bearing an identical size code and ratings. When the locking key has gone missing, the fitter extracts the nut and swaps in a standard one, so the car never has to leave its bay. Night and weekend calls are taken.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Drives, bays and car parks.
A residents' bay with the permit displayed is the normal place, so long as the car is wholly within the white lines and the fitter can reach the wheel from the pavement side. The public car parks at Lurke Street, Queen Street and St Peters Street take the job when the car is already parked there, ideally in an end bay where there is space to lay the wheel on the tarmac. The Lidl car park works only with the store's say so. The A4280 carriageway and a double yellow on a corner are both ruled out.
Callers come from the terraced roads off Goldington Road, from the Castle area next door, and from homes near St Peters Street and Newnham Avenue on the MK41 fringe. Driveways are scarce on these roads, which makes a residents' bay the usual place to work, and a perfectly usable one while the permit is on show. Goldington Road and St Peters Street both form part of the A4280 and carry through traffic all day, so a car that goes flat on either is taken into a side street before anything else happens. If the car is in town instead, the Lurke Street and Queen Street car parks are public, and the van can draw up beside a bay clear of the entrance lanes. Bedford has no clean-air zone, so there is no charge to think about on the way in either.

24 hours in De Parys.
Late calls from De Parys usually come from residents who walk back from the town centre or the station and find one corner sitting low in the bay. The phone is answered overnight, the tyre and the address are confirmed, and the figure for the job is spelled out before anyone sets off from Brent Cross.
What drivers say.
"Quick, helpful and very understanding of our situation."
Questions from De Parys.
Can you change a tyre in a residents' permit bay in De Parys?
Which Bedford car park near De Parys works for a tyre change?
I picked up a screw on Goldington Road. Can the tyre be saved?
Do you come out to De Parys at weekends?
Around De Parys.
Stuck in De Parys? Call now.
Goldington Road, a St Peters Street bay or Lurke Street: wherever the car sits in De Parys, the work happens there.
