★★★★★
"Great service, fixed my punctured tyre quickly and the best prices for mobile repairs."
AAmirGoogle review
Drayton, Oxfordshire, near Vale of White Horse · OX14 and OX13
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Drayton.
This is the Drayton in the Vale of White Horse, just south of Abingdon, where the B4017 Abingdon Road meets the B4016 High Street. Rescue Tyres attends the vehicle itself, on a drive or a firm frontage in OX14 or OX13.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Drayton?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Drayton.
A dozen places in this country are called Drayton, and this one is an Oxfordshire village on a crossroads. Traffic bound between Abingdon and Steventon or Milton uses the B4017 all day, which keeps the verges chewed and puts grit onto the High Street. Village tyres pick up flints and screws from that, and from the farm entrances off the Steventon Road. Read out the size moulded into the sidewall along with the postcode and the correct tyre travels out.
| Postcode districts | OX14, OX13 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Abingdon Road (B4017); High Street (B4016); Steventon Road (B4017); Drayton Road (B4016) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Fairacres Retail Park, Abingdon Sewage Treatment Works, Drayton Road Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 47 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Abingdon |
What we do in Drayton
Tyre work in Drayton.
One visit has to cover it out here, so the van arrives ready. Tyres are supplied against the exact markings on the old casing, from the economy end to the well-known brands, and run-flat, four by four, van, winter and electric vehicle fitments can all be had. Punctures get the BS AU 159 treatment, which means taking the cover off the wheel and studying the liner before any plug or patch goes near it. A destroyed tyre is exchanged. A keyless locking nut is drawn off. Nothing is done at the roadside that belongs on a drive.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Drayton
Drives, bays and car parks.
The village works on private drives and hard frontages, and that is where nearly all of this gets done. A tarmac or block drive gives the jack a solid footing; a soft verge on Steventon Road does not and is avoided. Farmyard concrete is fine with the farmer's say-so. What is not available is a public car park, because the village has none, and the B4016 High Street is too narrow to give a working vehicle and a jacked car room side by side.
Calls come from the High Street and the closes leading off it, from properties along Abingdon Road heading towards Caldecott, and from drivers over towards Milton and Steventon. Drives here are the saving grace, since nothing in the village serves as public parking, no supermarket sits within it, and the lanes are too narrow to leave a car on axle stands beside. Fairacres Retail Park up in Abingdon is the nearest large open parking and suits anyone whose car is still moving under its own power. The A34 runs close by to the east, and a tyre that lets go on that dual carriageway should be nursed off at the next exit before anybody thinks about a jack. No clean air charging applies anywhere in this district.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Drayton.
Out here the night calls are farm and trade vehicles needing to be ready at first light, and householders who find a tyre flat when they get home late. Nobody wants to be stood in an unlit lane, so the advice is always to get onto a drive first, then ring 07473 720871 and settle the cost of the visit on that call.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and great service! Thanks for the Friday night rescue."
LBLewis BourneGoogle review
Drayton FAQs
Questions from Drayton.
Is this the Drayton near Abingdon?
This page covers the Oxfordshire village in the Vale of White Horse, a couple of miles south of Abingdon on the B4017, with Steventon, Milton and Sutton Courtenay around it. Villages of the same name sit in several other counties; this is not one of those.
Where can a fitter work if I have no drive?
A neighbour's hard frontage, a farm entrance with the owner's permission or a wide close off the High Street will all do. The village has no public car park, so that option does not exist here. Describe the space on the phone and it gets sorted before the van sets off.
Can a puncture be repaired instead of replaced?
A repair is permitted for a hole no wider than six millimetres lying within the middle strip of the tread, and it is worked in from inside the casing. Damage to the sidewall, bulges and anything run flat rule it out, so a new tyre goes on.
Do you come this far out from London for one tyre?
Oxfordshire is part of the area covered, which reaches from London towards Birmingham. A single tyre in a village is a normal job. The drive is longer than a London call, so the arrival window discussed on the phone reflects that honestly.
Nearby
Around Drayton.
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B4017 Abingdon Road, High Street or a Steventon Road drive: the fitter attends the vehicle itself.