★★★★★
"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."
DSDaniella SaccoGoogle review
Downley, Buckinghamshire · HP13
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Downley.
Downley sits above the A40 on the west side of High Wycombe, reached by a climb from West Wycombe Road or Chapel Lane. Rescue Tyres takes the tyre up to the house in HP13 instead of asking the car to come down.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Downley?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Downley.
Nobody drives through Downley on the way to somewhere else, and that changes the kind of call that comes from it. The damage is nearly always collected elsewhere, on the A40 or the A4010, then discovered here on the drive: a tyre soft in the morning, a rim marked by a kerb on the way back up, a warning light that came on at the bottom of the hill and got ignored. The work happens where the car is parked.
| Postcode districts | HP13 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | West Wycombe Road (A40); Chapel Lane (A4010) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Desborough Industrial Park, Dashwood Works, Pilot Trading Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 24 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in High Wycombe |
What we do in Downley
Tyre work in Downley.
What goes on the car is chosen from the markings on the tyre already there, in whatever range you decide on, and nothing unusual about a size rules it out. A puncture within the tread and inside the dimensions BS AU 159 sets is repaired from the inside, not sealed from outside. If a pothole has wrecked the tyre, it is replaced, and the wheel rim gets inspected for dents alongside. A locking nut without its key is taken off intact. The phone is manned right through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Downley
Drives, bays and car parks.
Driveways do nearly all of it, and a firm level one is ideal. Where a house has none, a quiet close with the car clear of a junction works, and the van parks so as to shield the working side. The industrial ground down in the valley, Desborough Industrial Park, Dashwood Works and Fryers Works among it, takes commercial work by arrangement with the site. The two trunk roads at the foot of the hill are not workable, and neither is any verge along them.
The village is a grid of closes and estate roads with Naphill, Hughenden Valley and Castlefield around it, and most houses have a drive or a hardstanding. That matters, because Downley has no station, no supermarket ground worth using and no public car park a car could be left in while a wheel is off. On the estate roads a car can be left square with a clear side and the fitter works from the pavement, which is fine on the quieter closes. It is not fine on Chapel Lane or West Wycombe Road at the foot of the hill, where the A4010 and the A40 both carry through traffic with no margin at the edge. Give the postcode and the nearest close when you ring.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Downley.
Downley goes quiet early, so a night call is usually somebody arriving home from a late shift in the valley and hearing the rim on the drive, or a driver leaving before dawn who finds a tyre down. The line is staffed all night, and the amount is agreed while the details are being taken.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Life saver. Sudden puncture, hard-to-find tyre. They got back to me within 10 minutes and did a mobile tyre change."
JSJimmy SuGoogle review
Downley FAQs
Questions from Downley.
Where can I leave the car in Downley for a tyre change?
On your own drive if there is one, or on the close outside with the wheels straight and space beside the damaged corner. There is no public car park in Downley and no station parking, so the drive is genuinely the best surface available here.
The tyre went down at the bottom of the hill on the A40. Should I drive up?
Driving on a flat ruins the tyre and can damage the rim, so it is better to stop somewhere off West Wycombe Road with room around the car and ring from there. Where it is only losing air slowly, the climb up to Downley is usually survivable.
Do you come out to Naphill and Hughenden Valley too?
Naphill, Hughenden Valley, Walter's Ash, Bradenham and Cryers Hill sit a couple of miles out at most and get the same visit as Downley. Lanes up there are narrow, so give the postcode and say whether a van can turn near the house.
Can a pothole split be repaired rather than replaced?
It depends where it sits. A hole through the central tread band no wider than 6 mm can be patch-plugged under BS AU 159; a pinched casing or a split in the sidewall cannot, because that damage runs through the structure. The fitter decides after looking inside.
Nearby
Around Downley.
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Chapel Lane, West Wycombe Road or a close up in Downley, the fitting is done at the kerb.