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Far Cotton, Northamptonshire · NN4
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Far Cotton.
Far Cotton lies just south of Northampton town centre, with the A5123 Towcester Road running through it and the A508 London Road on its eastern side. Rescue Tyres sends the van to wherever the car stands, kerbside or on a drive.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Far Cotton?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Far Cotton.
Towcester Road carries a steady flow of cars in and out of the centre, and the Mereway junction and the approach to the Queen Eleanor Roundabout keep the roads around Far Cotton busy. A tyre that goes soft here usually does so parked outside the house, or on the way back from one of the supermarkets. Read out the sidewall size, describe where the car has been left, and the fitter turns up carrying the matching tyre or everything needed to mend the damaged one.
| Postcode districts | NN4 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | London Road (A508); Mereway (A5076); Danes Camp Way (A5076); Queen Eleanor Roundabout (A508) |
| Nearest stations | Northampton (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 15A (Rothersthorpe), about 2.1 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Tungsten Business Park, Grafton Street Industrial Estate, Brackmills Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 53 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Northampton |
What we do in Far Cotton
Tyre work in Far Cotton.
Far Cotton calls cover the whole spread of tyre work. A small puncture near the middle of the tread is repaired from inside by the BS AU 159 method; anything outside those limits means a replacement. New tyres match the markings on the old one. Following a burst, the wheel itself is examined before the new tyre goes on. A missing locking nut key is handled with proper removal tools rather than brute force on the alloy.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Far Cotton
Drives, bays and car parks.
Street parking is a common working spot here: a car pulled in tight against a side-road kerb is fine. A private drive is better still. Supermarket car parks are the fallback for a car that moves, taken at a quiet end away from the doors and never in a disabled or parent bay. Yards on the Grafton Street Industrial Estate suit a van when the site says yes. The kerb of Towcester Road is no good for a jacked car at any time of day.
Most calls start on the residential streets off Towcester Road, from Merefield and St James' End on the edges, and from people working at the Grafton Street Industrial Estate, Tungsten Business Park and the Westgate estate nearby. Where a house has no drive, the fitter works from the kerb of a residential street, so long as it is lawfully parked with room on the road side without stepping into traffic. Towcester Road and London Road themselves are not suitable, with too much traffic and nowhere to stand. If the car will still drive, the Asda, Aldi and Lidl car parks in the area give open space, and a bay at the far edge is best. Northampton station is just over a mile away. No clean-air charge applies anywhere in Northampton.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Far Cotton.
At night the calls from Far Cotton are mostly people back from late shifts on the nearby estates, and drivers who find a flat on the street before work. The phone is picked up whatever the time, and what the tyre and the visit add up to is made clear before anyone commits.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Came in for a popped tyre, was fixed quickly and efficiently."
AJAmna JasimGoogle review
Far Cotton FAQs
Questions from Far Cotton.
The car is on the street outside my house in Far Cotton. Can the tyre be fitted there?
A legally parked car on a residential street is fine, as long as there is room to work on the wheel without standing in the traffic. If the flat faces the traffic on a busy street, the fitter may ask you to move it a short way first.
Can you meet me at the Asda or Aldi car park near Far Cotton?
Either suits a car that still drives. Choose a bay at the quiet end, well clear of the entrance, and let the fitter know which supermarket and which corner of its car park you are in.
Is Far Cotton inside a clean-air zone?
No clean-air scheme or emissions levy operates in Northampton, so a car or van in Far Cotton pays nothing to drive or to be worked on. The only zones on our patch are in London, Birmingham and central Oxford.
How far is Far Cotton from the base the van comes from?
Our one base sits at Brent Cross, a little over fifty miles off as the crow flies, which is why no arrival time is promised up front. Ring 07473 720871 and an honest estimate is given during the call.
Nearby
Around Far Cotton.
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Towcester Road, Merefield and the supermarkets close by, the Far Cotton fitter works on the car where it is.