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Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire · SL9
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Gerrards Cross.
Gerrards Cross keeps its shops on Packhorse Road and its commuters on a platform a few steps away, with the A40 Oxford Road and the A413 Amersham Road either side. Rescue Tyres attends the car wherever it was left.
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Tyre trouble in Gerrards Cross?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Gerrards Cross.
The pattern in SL9 is a commuting one. A car goes into the station car park with a tyre that is only slightly soft, sits there through a working day, and is properly flat by the time the evening train gets in. The rest arrives off the A40 Oxford Road and the A413, where a kerb taken at the wrong angle nicks a sidewall. Either way the car stays put and the van goes to it with the right size already loaded.
| Postcode districts | SL9 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Amersham Road (A413); Oxford Road (A40); Packhorse Road (B416); Kingsway (B416) |
| Nearest stations | Gerrards Cross (National Rail), Denham Golf Club (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 16 (Denham), about 2.2 miles away |
| Distance from our base | about 14 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Beaconsfield |
What we do in Gerrards Cross
Tyre work in Gerrards Cross.
What gets done at the kerbside in Gerrards Cross is the whole of it: a new tyre from the budget, mid-range or premium end to suit the car, sourced against the size on the sidewall and covered by the maker's own warranty. A tread puncture repaired under BS AU 159, the tyre lifted off its wheel so the liner inside can be read before any patch goes near it. A burst tyre is swapped out, its rim examined for damage on the way. Locking nuts surrender when no key can be found. Out of hours bookings are treated no differently.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Gerrards Cross
Drives, bays and car parks.
The simplest surface is a drive, and most of SL9 has one. Where it does not, Bulstrode Way car park suits a car that is still drivable, and the station car park works for anyone who left the vehicle there in the morning, provided you come back to it and the bay has a free side. Supermarket parking at the Tesco and the Waitrose belongs to their customers, so a space well away from the doors is the decent choice. Packhorse Road itself, and both of the trunk roads, are unworkable.
Work here divides between the middle of the town and the roads spreading out from it. Around Packhorse Road the bays are short stay and traffic runs constantly, so a wheel is better taken off in Bulstrode Way car park or the station car park, both level and both simple to describe on the phone. Out along Kingsway, Windsor Road and the avenues behind them the houses have drives, often gravel, and gravel needs a board under the jack, which the van carries. Both trunk roads through the town, the A413 Amersham Road and the A40 Oxford Road, move at a pace with no proper margin, so neither is a place to stand beside a car on a jack. Junction 16 of the M25 at Denham is a couple of miles off, which is where a fair share of motorway casualties limp in from.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Gerrards Cross.
The late calls in SL9 come from the station car park and from driveways before dawn: somebody off the last train finds the wheel sitting on its rim, or a car loaded for an early start will not hold pressure. The phone gets answered no matter the hour, and the whole sum is settled before anybody sets out.
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What drivers say.
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Gerrards Cross FAQs
Questions from Gerrards Cross.
Can a tyre be changed in the Gerrards Cross station car park?
That car park is among the easier places in the town to do it. Come back to the car so the fitter can find you, leave the damaged side clear of the neighbouring bay, and have the locking key to hand. Give the bay number and the registration at the time of booking.
My tyre has gone on the M25 close to junction 16. Where should I stop?
The hard shoulder is out, and so is a refuge area: nobody works in either. If the wheel still turns, leave at junction 16 and find a quiet road on the Denham side or come up into the town. Should the car be immovable, ring 999, or National Highways on 0300 123 5000, before anything else.
Is there a charge for driving into Gerrards Cross like the London zone?
None applies in SL9. Clean air charging on this patch belongs to Greater London, and Buckinghamshire sits outside it. A stationary vehicle having a wheel taken off attracts nothing anywhere in any case, because such zones bill driving rather than parking.
Do you cover Chalfont St Peter and Fulmer on the same round?
Chalfont St Peter shares the SL9 postcode and sits little over a mile up the A413, while Fulmer, Tatling End and Higher Denham are all within about two miles. They fall on one round. Send a postcode plus a photograph of what is written around the sidewall, and the tyre that suits it is put on the van.
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Around Gerrards Cross.
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Packhorse Road, Bulstrode Way or a drive off Windsor Road: your car is where the job happens.