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Donnington, Oxfordshire, near Oxford · OX4
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Donnington.
Donnington is the OX4 grid of streets between the A4158 Iffley Road and the river, with Donnington Bridge Road cutting straight through the middle. Rescue Tyres sends tyre and fitter together to whichever drive or kerb the car happens to be on.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 1.5 to 2 hours
Tyre trouble in Donnington?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Donnington.
Most tyre trouble in Donnington starts somewhere else and finishes here. A nail collected on the B480 Cowley Road, or a rim caught turning into Weirs Lane, tends to stay quiet until the car has stood outside the house overnight and one corner has settled by morning. Mobile work suits that exactly: the wheel leaves the hub on the spot it stopped. The size is on the sidewall; that plus the OX4 postcode is enough to load the right tyre first.
| Postcode districts | OX4 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Kennington Roundabout; Southern By-pass Road (A423); Iffley Road (A4158); Henley Avenue (A4158) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Templars Shopping Park, Oxford Retail Park, City Works |
| Distance from our base | about 45 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Oxford |
What we do in Donnington
Tyre work in Donnington.
Four jobs cover almost everything Donnington asks for. A replacement in the size stamped on the old tyre, brought out and balanced on the wheel at your door. A tread puncture, which leaves the rim so the casing can be studied from within and patched to BS AU 159 provided the hole is where that standard will accept one. A tyre wrecked against a kerb, swapped once the rim has been examined. And, where nobody can find the locking key, the special nut extracted so the wheel comes free. Nights are answered on the same number.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Donnington
Drives, bays and car parks.
A private drive is the best surface Donnington offers, and where a house has one the car need not move at all. Failing that, the kerb outside the door works, as long as the car sits clear of a junction mouth and there is a body's width on the offside. Redbridge Park and Ride, off the A4144 Abingdon Road, is level tarmac with room to swing a wheel off, which makes it the place to head for if the car is still driveable. Donnington Bridge Road itself and the carriageway of the A4158 are not options.
Work comes from the houses lining Donnington Bridge Road, from the closes off Henley Avenue, and from flats around Robin Hood and Iffley Fields. Everything here is OX4, which keeps the address simple. Parking is the awkward part: this is permit-bay territory, as the rest of the streets inside the ring road are, and a car up on a jack takes real room on a residential street. Rolling forward a length so the working side faces the pavement instead of passing traffic usually settles it. Neither the A4158 Iffley Road nor the A423 Southern By-pass Road is a place to stop, and the run down to Kennington Roundabout is worse again. Florence Park and Cold Harbour belong to the same round.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Donnington.
Late calls from this corner of OX4 are usually somebody home off a shift who has found a tyre down at the kerb, or a driver back over Donnington Bridge from the Cowley side losing air. The number is answered at every hour of the night. Size and street first, then the figure for tyre and callout, settled before a van moves.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Great service, fixed my punctured tyre quickly and the best prices for mobile repairs."
AAmirGoogle review
Donnington FAQs
Questions from Donnington.
Is a permit bay in Donnington somewhere a wheel can come off?
Permit bays are where most cars here live, so that is routine work. Sit the car as square to the kerb as the bay lets you, name the street and the OX4 postcode, and keep whatever permit or ticket applies on display for the duration.
My car is stuck on Donnington Bridge Road with a flat. Where should I move it?
Get it off the through route and onto one of the side streets, or onto a drive if a neighbour offers one. Donnington Bridge Road carries traffic across the river and offers no safe width to work in. Phone once you have stopped, with the size.
Is a nail in the tread always a new tyre?
Not usually. A hole placed centrally across the tread, no broader than six millimetres, can be taken out, examined from within the casing and sealed to BS AU 159. Damage on the shoulder or down the sidewall is beyond repair, and that tyre gets replaced.
Do you come out to Iffley Fields and Florence Park as well?
Both are on the same round as Donnington, as are Robin Hood, Cold Harbour and Old Rose Hill. The van starts from Brent Cross, north London, and any timing you are given comes during the call rather than as a promise made in advance.
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Around Donnington.
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Donnington Bridge Road, Henley Avenue or Redbridge Park and Ride: the fitter travels, the car does not.