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"Good communication, excellent work and takes the initiative. Happy to go the extra mile, highly recommended if you're in a tyre-related bit of bother!"
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Faringdon, Oxfordshire · SN7
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Faringdon.
The Market Place in Faringdon is where the A4095 and the A417 meet, with the A420 running past on the Faringdon Road. Rescue Tyres handles new tyres and puncture work at the vehicle across SN7, seven days a week.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Faringdon?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Faringdon.
Tyre trouble in a market town splits two ways. There is what the A420 does, which is debris and a slow puncture noticed later, and there is what the town does, which is kerb damage on the narrow run through Cornmarket, Gloucester Street and Church Street where parked cars pinch the space. The first usually ends in a repair, the second often in a new tyre, since a pinched sidewall cannot be mended.
| Postcode districts | SN7 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Park Road Roundabout; Faringdon Road (A420); Stanford Road Roundabout; Marlborough Street (A4095) |
| Distance from our base | about 59 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Witney |
What we do in Faringdon
Tyre work in Faringdon.
The work at the car here covers the everyday run of tyre jobs. A replacement fitted and balanced to whatever size the vehicle already carries. A puncture in the tread pulled off the rim, studied from within and patch-plugged if BS AU 159 allows it. A burst tyre exchanged, with the rim eyed over before the wheel goes back. Locking nuts are taken off when their keys have gone astray. Wheel alignment is not among the things offered, and part-worn tyres are never carried on the van. Nobody switches the callout line off at midnight either.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Faringdon
Drives, bays and car parks.
Three surfaces do the work in Faringdon. A private drive, simplest of all and where most jobs happen. Gloucester Street car park, which suits a car caught out in the middle of town. And a supermarket bay at the Tesco, the Aldi or the Waitrose for somebody who was shopping when the tyre went down, bearing in mind those are timed and belong to the store. What does not work is a space on Marlborough Street or Cornmarket at a busy hour, with no room to swing a wheel clear.
Callers come from the streets around the Market Place, from the estates off Park Road and Lechlade Road, from the A417 end near Station Road, and from the villages that use the town, Great Coxwell, Little Coxwell, Littleworth and Shellingford among them. Gloucester Street car park is the useful piece of public ground in the middle: a car that still drives gives a fitter proper room in there, well back from the traffic feeding the Market Place. Best avoided is the kerbside on the central streets, too tight for a vehicle to be jacked without blocking somebody, and the A420 beyond Park Road Roundabout, which is a road to leave rather than one to stand beside. Away from the centre SN7 is driveway country and most jobs finish on one.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Faringdon.
Overnight callers here are often people who got home off the A420 and only then spotted a tyre sitting flat, plus drivers coming in along the Lechlade Road well after dark. The line is staffed at every hour, the size is matched against what the van carries, and the sum for the visit is agreed before anyone drives out.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Great service. Friendly, fast and saved me at a late hour."
HSHassan SkaikyGoogle review
Faringdon FAQs
Questions from Faringdon.
Can you meet me in Gloucester Street car park in Faringdon?
As a meeting point it works well while the car remains drivable, because there is space around the wheel away from the traffic feeding the Market Place. Park where a van can draw alongside, then tell the fitter which row and what the sidewall reads.
Something went through the tyre on the A420. Where should I come off?
Take the next turn into town rather than stopping on the trunk road. Park Road and Station Road both lead somewhere the car can sit still. Once it has stopped on an ordinary street or a drive, ring with the location and the sidewall size.
Do you come out to the villages around Faringdon?
Great Coxwell, Little Coxwell, Littleworth and Shellingford all sit inside the area, as do the lanes between them. A house name, the full SN7 postcode and a landmark help a lot, because satellite navigation is vague about farm entrances out that way.
Will a nail in the tread mean buying a new tyre?
Not necessarily. BS AU 159 allows an internal patch-plug where the hole is central to the tread, no wider than 6 mm, and nobody has run the car on it flat. A puncture out at the shoulder, or any cut into the sidewall, cannot be mended.
Nearby
Around Faringdon.
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Market Place, Gloucester Street car park and the Lechlade Road: the tyre is sorted at the vehicle.