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Dordon, Warwickshire · B78
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Dordon.
Dordon is a North Warwickshire village beside Watling Street, the A5, about a mile and a half from junction 10 of the M42 at Tamworth. Rescue Tyres drives out with the replacement and the kit and works wherever the car stands.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours
Tyre trouble in Dordon?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Dordon.
Living next to Watling Street means sharing a road with freight. The A5M42re carries lorries to and from the M42, and a screw, a strip of steel banding or a scrap of lost load in the tread is the usual reason a Dordon tyre goes soft. Most of those tyres keep enough air to reach home, so the repair usually happens on the owner's own drive. Pass on your full postcode and the tyre size off the sidewall, and the fitter sets off already carrying a match.
| Postcode districts | B78, CV9 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Watling Street (A5) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 10 (Tamworth Interchange), about 1.4 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | B5K Business Park |
| Distance from our base | about 92 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Atherstone |
What we do in Dordon
Tyre work in Dordon.
New tyres are ordered against whatever the sidewall reads, budget, mid-range or premium to suit, and the range stretches to EV, 4x4, van and run-flat sizes; the balancer on board sets each one up. A clean hole in the tread from A5 debris is often mendable. Stripping the tyre off its rim lets the fitter examine the liner, and a plug and patch put in that way satisfies BS AU 159. A blowout means a fresh tyre, with the rim looked over first. Missing locking-nut keys are no bar to the work, and new tyres carry their maker's warranty.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Dordon
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive is the first choice in Dordon, and most homes in the village have one. Failing that, a quiet residential road where the car stands level and clear of any junction works, provided there is space to kneel beside the wheel. On the business park a yard will do for a van, so long as its managers have been warned to expect the tyre van. Dordon has no public car park of note to steer you to, and the verge of the A5, with freight passing close by, is never used.
Calls come from houses across the village, from Birchmoor under a mile away, and from drivers living out towards Polesworth, Grendon and Baddesley Ensor. The postcode is split: some Dordon addresses carry B78, a Tamworth district, and others CV9, an Atherstone one, so the full postcode helps far more than the village name. Most work ends on a private drive, the simplest surface there is. Vans and company cars at the nearby business park get sorted on its yard, provided the people running it agree. Watling Street is the one road in the village with nowhere to jack a car, so after a failure there, turn off and pull up on a quiet residential road. The motorway at junction 10 is off limits in the same way. North Warwickshire levies no clean-air charge of any kind.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Dordon.
After dark Dordon calls tend to be from drivers who limped home along Watling Street or off the M42 on a soft tyre, and from people who spot a flat as they set out before dawn. Someone answers whatever the time, and both the cost and a realistic arrival time, given the long run up from north London, are settled before anyone sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
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"Great service. Friendly, fast and saved me at a late hour."
HSHassan SkaikyGoogle review
Dordon FAQs
Questions from Dordon.
Is Dordon covered even though the van comes from north London?
It is, along with Birchmoor, Polesworth and the rest of this corner of North Warwickshire. Coming up from Brent Cross takes a good while, so when you ring or message 07473 720871 the fitter gives you a realistic idea of when the van will pull up.
A tyre is going down on the M42 near junction 10. Can you come to me there?
Nobody from Rescue Tyres will set up on the M42 itself, the hard shoulder or an emergency refuge. Come off at junction 10, the Tamworth Interchange, and find a safe side road in Dordon or Tamworth. Stranded and at risk? Ring 999, or National Highways on 0300 123 5000, and get recovered off the motorway first.
My address says Tamworth but I live in Dordon. Does that matter?
Not at all. Dordon spans two postcode districts, B78, which belongs to Tamworth, and CV9, which belongs to Atherstone, and both are on the round. Send the full postcode rather than the village name, since that is what leads the fitter to the right door.
Nobody can find the locking nut key. Can a Dordon tyre still be changed?
It can. Purpose-made extractors bite onto that patterned nut and back it off the stud with the alloy left unscarred, after which an ordinary nut goes on instead. The wheel is then free for this job and any future one.
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Around Dordon.
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Whether it is a Dordon drive, a Birchmoor street or a business park yard, the tyre comes to the car.