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Enfield Lock, Greater London · EN3
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Enfield Lock.
Enfield Lock sits at the top corner of EN3 with its station on the doorstep, Mollison Avenue a few streets away and Waltham Cross over the boundary. Rescue Tyres arrives with tyre, jack and balancer, then gets on with the job at the roadside.
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Tyre trouble in Enfield Lock?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Enfield Lock.
Two different sets of drivers get tyre trouble in Enfield Lock. Commuters using the station leave the car parked all day and return to one corner sitting low, usually a slow puncture that has been going down since breakfast. Everyone else picks something up on the run to Mollison Avenue or Hertford Road. Either way it is dealt with wherever the car already sits: read out the sidewall size, name the EN3 road, and the matching tyre loads onto the van before it leaves.
| Postcode districts | EN3 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Mollison Avenue (A1055); Hertford Road (A1010); Bullsmoor Lane (A1055) |
| Nearest stations | Enfield Lock (National Rail), Turkey Street (London Overground), Brimsdown (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 25 (Waltham Cross), about 1.7 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Enfield Highway Shopping Centre, Highbridge Retail Park, Enfield Retail Park |
| Distance from our base | about 11 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Enfield |
What we do in Enfield Lock
Tyre work in Enfield Lock.
What gets done at an Enfield Lock address is plain enough. Fresh tyres in whatever size the old sidewall gives, fitted and balanced at the car. Puncture repairs where the standard permits one: the tyre leaves the wheel, its inner liner gets read, and a patch-plug is worked in from behind under BS AU 159. Emergency replacement once a tyre has burst or run flat and the casing is finished. Locking nuts drawn out when their key is lost. The callout line stays open overnight, seven days.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Enfield Lock
Drives, bays and car parks.
A front drive is the easiest job in this postcode and plenty of Enfield Lock houses have one. Where the car sits at the kerb instead, it has to be wholly inside the bay with an arm's room clear outside the damaged wheel so it can come off and the replacement go on. The ground has to be level and firm enough to take a jack, which rules out a soft verge. Railway land near the station and retail park bays are private, so those need the operator's agreement rather than ours.
The roads immediately around Enfield Lock station take the biggest share of calls, followed by homes towards Bullsmoor and the moorings at Hazlemere Marina where a car may be left parked for long stretches. Nothing in Enfield Lock is a public car park, so the working surface is a private drive, a business yard whose occupier has said yes, or an unrestricted residential bay. The bays at Highbridge Retail Park and Enfield Retail Park are the operators' land and need their say-so. Mollison Avenue is out of the question with traffic running. Greater London runs out just past here and so does the ULEZ, which follows the M25: Enfield Lock is in the zone every hour, Waltham Cross is not, and no charge touches a parked car losing a wheel.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Enfield Lock.
Because the station is right here, the late calls are often somebody off a train at Enfield Lock finding a flat in the dark, along with drivers coming back over from Waltham Cross. The van runs at night, and the tyre, the fitting and the journey are all settled on the phone before it moves.
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What drivers say.
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Enfield Lock FAQs
Questions from Enfield Lock.
Can a tyre be changed at the car near Enfield Lock station?
The residential roads around it are the sensible spot, being unrestricted and wide enough to get behind the car. Railway parking is the operator's to allow, not ours. Send the road name, the row if you are in a bay, and the size stamped on the sidewall.
The car is on a shared forecourt behind a block of flats. Is that workable?
Usually, provided the freeholder or the managing agent is content with it and the van can get in. What the fitter needs is level ground, the damaged wheel reachable from outside, and nothing parked so tight that the wheel cannot come off the hub.
If the tyre cannot be repaired, what then?
Then it is replaced, with the size and load rating taken from the old sidewall so the new one matches. The worn cover goes back to the Brent Cross base for disposal rather than being left leaning against your wall. Nothing is fitted before you have agreed the total.
Do you come out to Hazlemere Marina and the lanes around it?
That end of EN3 is covered along with Bullsmoor and the roads towards Waltham Cross. Access matters more than distance out there, so describe the gate, the surface and whether a long van can turn round, so the fitter knows what is coming.
Nearby
Around Enfield Lock.
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Beside the station, out at Hazlemere Marina or on a drive off Mollison Avenue, the tyre goes on there.