★★★★★
"Had a rapidly deflating tyre. Rang Rescue Tyres, they had it in stock and I was back on the road within an hour."
BRBradley ReeveGoogle review
Forest Gate, Greater London · E7
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Forest Gate.
Forest Gate runs from Woodgrange Road up to the open grass of Wanstead Flats, with two stations inside E7 and terraced streets filling the gap. Rescue Tyres loads the right size, then works at the kerb, seven days a week.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Forest Gate?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Forest Gate.
What comes up here is rarely dramatic. A tyre takes a nail on Romford Road or Katherine Road, holds air for a couple of days, then turns up soft on the school run. The rest is kerb damage, because parking in E7 is nose to tail and drivers square up hard against the stone. Either way the car finishes up outside the house, so that is the spot the wheel comes off, once the markings have been read out over the phone.
| Postcode districts | E7 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Woodgrange Road (A114); Woodford Road (A114); Centre Road (A114); Romford Road (A118) |
| Nearest stations | Wanstead Park (London Overground), Forest Gate (National Rail;Elizabeth line), Manor Park (National Rail;Elizabeth line) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Leyton Mills Retail Park, Maryland Industrial Estate, The Sidings Industrial Estate |
| 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 Newham |
What we do in Forest Gate
Tyre work in Forest Gate.
Most of what happens in Forest Gate is a straight replacement or a repair. New rubber is ordered to match what the car already wears, then fitted and balanced at the roadside, and run-flat, performance, 4x4, van, EV and all-season are all within reach. Where a hole lies within the middle band of tread, 6 mm across at most, BS AU 159 permits a permanent repair worked from inside the casing, and that is what happens. Shredded tyres are swapped and the rim looked over.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Forest Gate
Drives, bays and car parks.
The Flats car parks are the best hard standing in E7 by some way: open, level and easy to direct a fitter to. Otherwise a residential bay hemmed in by other parked cars, which keeps whatever comes past to walking pace. Harrow Road Car Park serves for a vehicle that can be driven that far. A front garden laid as hardstanding is ideal where the house has one. The bus lane end of Woodgrange Road and the junction mouths on Dames Road are both off limits.
People ring from the Woodgrange streets, from Dames Road and Harrow Road at the top end, from the Katherine Road side towards Plashet, and from the roads by Wanstead Park and Forest Gate stations where commuter parking is tightest. Most of that ground is controlled bays, so the fitter wants to know whether the car sits in a permit space, on a single yellow or on the unrestricted side of a boundary. The car parks along the edge of Wanstead Flats, Jubilee Pond and Alexandra Lake among them, are genuine public parking with space to work, which is unusual for this corner of the borough. Woodgrange Road itself, with its bus traffic and loading bans, is somewhere a jack should never appear.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Forest Gate.
The late ring is often somebody home from a shift who spots the tyre down before putting the car away, or a driver just off the A118 with something audible in the tread. The phone is manned overnight and through the weekend, and the cost is agreed while you are still speaking to us.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"I urgently needed to replace my tyres and the team were prompt, friendly and efficient at a great price."
JIJisoo ImGoogle review
Forest Gate FAQs
Questions from Forest Gate.
Can you work in the Wanstead Flats car parks?
Those are open public car parks with far more space than the terraced streets nearby, so they suit a car that can still be driven. Pull up clear of the entrance, say which of them you are sitting in, and the wheel comes off there.
Do you cover the streets around Wanstead Park station?
Wanstead Park and Forest Gate stations both fall inside the patch, along with the roads off Dames Road behind them. Commuter parking makes those turnings tight, so give the house number nearest the car and say which side of the road you are on.
Is a repair possible if the nail is near the edge of the tread?
Not once it has gone into the shoulder or the sidewall, where mending a tyre is never safe. BS AU 159 permits mending only across the middle three quarters of the tread. Taking the casing off the rim shows what the inside looks like, and you get an honest answer either way.
My car was kerbed on Katherine Road and the sidewall is scuffed. Does that matter?
A graze through the surface rubber is often cosmetic, but a bulge, a split deep enough to show the cords, or a flat spot on the rim edge is not, and none of those can be mended. Send a photograph on WhatsApp to 07473 720871 and it can be judged first.
Nearby
Around Forest Gate.
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Woodgrange Road, the Wanstead Flats car parks or a bay off Dames Road: the fitter works at the car.