★★★★★
"After damaging my tyre on a pothole I found myself in an unfamiliar area. Within 20 minutes of calling Rescue Tyres they came to my rescue. Wholeheartedly recommend."
DSDaniella SaccoGoogle review
Filgrave, Buckinghamshire · MK16 and MK46
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Filgrave.
Filgrave is a small hamlet in the countryside between Newport Pagnell and Olney, with Tyringham and Emberton the nearest neighbours. Rescue Tyres comes to the house, fits or repairs the tyre at the car, and leaves nothing to be driven on flat.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 1.5 to 2 hours
Tyre trouble in Filgrave?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Filgrave.
A hamlet this size has no tyre shop, and a soft tyre is not worth the risk of a drive to find one. Most trouble starts on the A509 between Newport Pagnell and Olney, where roadside debris ends up in a tyre that then leaks overnight, or on the lanes linking Filgrave with Tyringham, Sherington and Gayhurst. The fix is the same whichever it was: a fitter makes the trip out, tyre on board, and works alongside the car.
| Postcode districts | MK16, MK46 |
|---|---|
| Distance from our base | about 44 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Newport Pagnell |
What we do in Filgrave
Tyre work in Filgrave.
The work in Filgrave is ordinary tyre work carried out in an unusual place. With the tyre dismounted, its inner liner gets looked over, and BS AU 159 settles whether a repair is permitted or the casing is scrapped. Replacements follow the sidewall code, load and speed rating included, and each wheel is balanced on the van's own equipment before refitting. Locking wheel nut keys vanish here as often as anywhere, and the nut can still be removed cleanly. Every tyre is new and carries its maker's warranty.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Filgrave
Drives, bays and car parks.
Home ground, essentially. A drive, a yard or a hard frontage gives the fitter somewhere level to jack the car and space to set the wheel down. Gravel is fine if it is firm. Grass is not, and neither is the edge of a lane, where a passing tractor or car would have nowhere to go. If the car stopped out on the road, roll it slowly into the nearest entrance or back to the house before calling.
The few homes here share two postcode districts, MK16 and MK46, and the full postcode matters more than the hamlet name when a van is trying to find a single house. Calls come from Filgrave itself and from the places around it: Tyringham, Emberton, Weston Underwood, Sherington, Lathbury, Petsoe End and Stoke Goldington, with Ravenstone at the outer edge. Nearly every property has a drive or yard, and that is where the job gets done. Nowhere nearby offers a public car park or a supermarket to meet in, so home it is. Nobody works on the A509 carriageway, and a lane without a pull-in is equally off limits for a jacked car.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Filgrave.
Night calls here are few but pressing: a car needed at first light and a tyre that has sagged since dusk. Ring 07473 720871 whatever the time, give the postcode and the sidewall size, and what the job costs is agreed before the van sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Life saver. Sudden puncture, hard-to-find tyre. They got back to me within 10 minutes and did a mobile tyre change."
JSJimmy SuGoogle review
Filgrave FAQs
Questions from Filgrave.
Do you cover somewhere as small as Filgrave?
Size is no barrier: the area served runs from London to Birmingham, and hamlets between Newport Pagnell and Olney sit well inside it. The van starts at Brent Cross, so a realistic arrival time is worked out when you call rather than printed here.
Can you find a house in Filgrave with no street number?
House names are common out here, so give the full postcode, which may be MK16 or MK46, and a what3words reference or a description of the gate. A pin dropped on WhatsApp works just as well and saves the fitter guessing between neighbouring properties.
The tyre went on the A509 near Emberton. Where should I stop?
Pull off the main road at the first safe entrance or turning, even at a crawl, and stop well clear of passing traffic before you ring. Should the car refuse to move and the carriageway feel dangerous, 999 comes first; the tyre can wait.
Is it worth repairing a tyre with a nail in it?
Often it is. With the tyre off, its inner lining reveals whether the nail did more harm than the tread lets on. A small hole in the central band is mended properly, while one out towards the shoulder, or anywhere on the sidewall, calls for a replacement.
Nearby
Around Filgrave.
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Stuck in Filgrave? Call now.
Filgrave, Tyringham and the lanes towards Emberton and Sherington: the tyre is fitted at your door.