Mobile tyre fitting
in East Hunsbury.

A fitter at your car
in East Hunsbury.

The roads wrapped around East Hunsbury carry heavy traffic. Nene Valley Way is a main lorry route round the south of the town, and the Queen Eleanor Roundabout gathers it together with the A508, so debris from both ends up in tyres that live here. A screw often sits unnoticed in the tread until the dashboard lights up on the home driveway. Pass on the sidewall size along with your NN4 postcode, and a matching tyre travels up, or the fitter repairs the one already on the car.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A driveway comes first wherever there is one. Communal parking outside a block of flats is fine if the bay is level and the wheel side can be reached. The Mereway Tesco Car Park is fine for a car still rolling, in a spot away from the entrance lane. Staff car parks at Brackmills and Tungsten Business Park suit a works vehicle, once site management has cleared the visit. The verges of the dual carriageway are not an option at any time.

Calls come from houses near the B526 Newport Pagnell Road, from Blacky More and Merefield, and from homes towards Wootton, Hardingstone and Collingtree on the fringes. Weekday calls also arrive from people at work on the Brackmills Industrial Estate and Tungsten Business Park, where a car can be done in a staff car park if the site agrees. At home, a drive or a residents' bay is where the job normally ends. The Mereway Tesco Car Park is big and open, handy if the car will limp that far. What is not usable is the carriageway of Nene Valley Way or London Road, or the approaches to the Queen Eleanor Roundabout, where there is nowhere to stand clear of the traffic. Northampton runs no clean-air zone, so bringing the van in costs nothing extra.