★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire · RG8
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Goring-on-Thames.
Goring & Streatley station stands a couple of hundred yards from the High Street, which makes the platform car park the obvious place to meet a commuter with a flat. A fitter from Rescue Tyres arrives there, replacement tyre already on board.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 1.5 to 2 hours
Tyre trouble in Goring-on-Thames?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Goring-on-Thames.
Two kinds of tyre go wrong in Goring. One belongs to the commuter: parked all day at Goring & Streatley, back on an evening train, one rear tyre down on its rim. The other belongs to the lanes, where the B4526 Reading Road and Wallingford Road run between flint verges that take lumps out of a shoulder. Either way the job happens at the spot the car is standing. Give the size stamped on the tyre when you ring, and the replacement is loaded before anyone sets off.
| Postcode districts | RG8 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Wantage Road (A417); High Street (B4009); Wallingford Road (B4526); Reading Road (B4526) |
| Nearest stations | Goring & Streatley (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Streatley Sewage Treatment Works, Goring Sewage Treatment Works, Lower Basildon Sewage Treatment Works |
| Distance from our base | about 39 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Didcot |
What we do in Goring-on-Thames
Tyre work in Goring-on-Thames.
A flint chip caught on a lane is the commonest job, and whether it can be mended depends entirely on where it landed. Tread damage in the central three quarters, six millimetres across or less, is repaired from the inside as BS AU 159 sets out. A gash in the shoulder cannot be mended at all and takes a new tyre instead. Sizes run from small hatchback fitments through van, SUV and run-flat, in budget, mid-range and premium. Locking nuts with no key come off too.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Goring-on-Thames
Drives, bays and car parks.
Best of all is a private drive, where the car simply stays put. Failing that, the Goring & Streatley station car park gives proper hardstanding and room to get right round a wheel, and it is the one place in the village that reliably has room to spare. Wheel Orchard Car Park is public too and sits close to the centre. Not usable: the High Street kerb, the bridge approach on either bank, and the gravel pull-ins along the lanes, which give a jack nothing to bite on.
The village proper runs off the B4009 High Street and down towards the bridge, with Wallingford Road and Reading Road, both the B4526, carrying most of the housing behind them. Calls arrive from those streets, from the station side, and from Gatehampton and the Streatley bank over the water. Space, not parking rules, is the constraint in this village. The High Street is narrow enough that a jacked car stops everything behind it, and Streatley Hill rises away from the bridge with no width to spare, so neither is anywhere for a wheel to come off. Driveways solve that, and most houses on the Reading Road side have one. Further out, the A417 Wantage Road moves at a different pace and offers verges rather than lay-bys.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Goring-on-Thames.
The late trains into Goring & Streatley generate most of the night work here: a car left since morning, one tyre down, and nobody about. Someone answers whatever the clock says, and an honest arrival estimate gets worked out with you on that first call.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"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
Goring-on-Thames FAQs
Questions from Goring-on-Thames.
Can you meet me at Goring & Streatley station car park?
That car park is the fitter's preferred spot in the village, level and wide enough to work round a car properly. Tell us which end you are parked at, the registration and the numbers on the tyre, plus when the train is likely to get in.
My car is on the High Street with a flat. Should I move it?
If it will still roll, then yes, because the High Street is too tight to jack a car without stopping the traffic behind. The station car park or Wheel Orchard is barely any distance. If the tyre is destroyed and the car will not move, say so and the fitter works round it.
Do you come over the bridge to Streatley and Gatehampton?
Both are on the round, along with Lower Basildon, South Stoke and Moulsford. The van comes from Brent Cross in north London, so the sensible thing is to ring or WhatsApp 07473 720871, describe where the car is standing and get a realistic arrival estimate before anything else.
Can a tyre be repaired after it has been driven flat along the lane?
It depends what the flat did to the inside of it. A tyre run without air can scuff or break up its own liner, and none of that shows from outside. The fitter takes it off the rim and looks before promising anything, which is the only honest way to answer.
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Goring & Streatley station, Wheel Orchard or a Reading Road drive: the wheel comes off where you are.