★★★★★
"Quick, helpful and very understanding of our situation."
EAEva AshmoreGoogle review
Grahame Park, Greater London · NW9
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Grahame Park.
Grahame Park sits between Colindale station and Fiveways Corner, where the A1 Great North Way and the M1 part company. Rescue Tyres turns up at the vehicle itself, anywhere in NW9, carrying the tyre and the gear to fit it.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Grahame Park?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Grahame Park.
The motorway is the loudest fact about tyres here. Fiveways Corner is where the M1 gives way to the A1 Great North Way, and damage collected at speed often stays quiet until the car is back on the estate roads with a tyre going soft overnight. The rest of the work is ordinary enough: kerb scuffs, slow leaks, a tyre worn past its shoulder. None of that calls for the car to be driven anywhere. Read the markings off the sidewall when you ring, and that very tyre comes out on the van.
| Postcode districts | NW9 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Watford Way (A1); Fiveways Corner; Great North Way (A1); Colindeep Lane (A5150) |
| Nearest stations | Colindale (London Underground), Mill Hill Broadway (National Rail), Burnt Oak (London Underground) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 2 (Five Ways Corner), about 0.3 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Colindale Retail Park, Silk Bridge Retail Park, Mill Hill Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 2 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Barnet |
What we do in Grahame Park
Tyre work in Grahame Park.
The trade is tyres and wheels, nothing besides. A screw picked up on an estate road usually qualifies for a proper repair: the tyre is lifted off its rim, the inner face examined, and a patch and plug goes in under BS AU 159. Damage to the shoulder or the sidewall does not qualify, and that becomes a replacement in the same size. Locking nuts are taken off on the spot when the key has vanished. Wheels are balanced at the car, and the line is staffed overnight, seven days a week.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Grahame Park
Drives, bays and car parks.
Hard, level ground with room on one side of the vehicle is the whole requirement. A parking space on the estate meets it, so does a drive, and so does a quiet length of kerb on a residential road nearby. Grass verges and soft ground do not, because a jack sinks into them and a car on a sinking jack is dangerous. Supermarket bays are customer parking and worth checking with the store beforehand. The Great North Way and the motorway are simply off limits.
Most people ringing from Grahame Park are parked where they always park, which may be a marked space rather than a drive. That is workable. The fitter wants the car wholly inside its space, a clear side to work from, and firm ground under the jacking point. Beyond the estate the calls come from Colindale, from the roads towards Mill Hill and the Marshall Estate, and from drivers newly off the A1 with a wheel thumping. Nobody works on the M1 or on its slip roads at Fiveways Corner, so a car stranded there needs recovering first. Colindale Retail Park is private and closed to fitting. Mill Hill Broadway Station Car Park and Burnt Oak Station Car Park both belong to the railway, which decides what happens on them.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Grahame Park.
Nights here bring two sorts of call. One is a driver off the A1 who has coasted down to somewhere lit and stopped. The other is somebody on an early start who finds a tyre down on its rim in the dark. Either way the phone is answered, the tyre is matched to your size, and the cost is confirmed up front.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"I called out for a mobile repair. The service was quick and quite reasonably priced. Would recommend."
ADAjith Das MenonGoogle review
Grahame Park FAQs
Questions from Grahame Park.
Can a tyre be changed in a parking space on the estate?
A marked space works well provided the car sits inside it and one side is clear for the fitter and the wheel. Say which block you are outside, which way the car is facing, and whether a bollard or a post is close to the jacking point.
My tyre failed on the M1 near Fiveways Corner. Will you come out?
Not onto a motorway, nor a hard shoulder, nor an emergency area; those are no place for anyone to be standing. Leave at the junction and stop on an ordinary street instead. A car stranded up there with you inside it is a 999 matter, or National Highways on 0300 123 5000, followed by recovery.
Which station car park would you meet me at?
Mill Hill Broadway and Burnt Oak each have one, and both sit in railway hands rather than ours, so permission comes from them. Plenty of callers skip the asking and simply put the car on a residential street instead.
Is NW9 inside the ULEZ?
All of Greater London is, and it never switches off. It is the driving of a non-compliant vehicle that attracts the charge, never the standing still. A car standing on the estate having a wheel taken off falls outside it entirely.
Nearby
Around Grahame Park.
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Stuck in Grahame Park? Call now.
Fiveways Corner, Colindale station or a space outside your block: the fitter comes to you.