★★★★★
"I urgently needed to replace my tyres and the team were prompt, friendly and efficient at a great price."
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Greenford, Greater London · UB6 and UB1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Greenford.
Greenford runs along the A40, with the Greenford Flyover at one end and the Greenford Roundabout on the A4127 at the other and estates in between. Rescue Tyres works on the vehicle where it stands in UB6.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Greenford?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Greenford.
Greenford is a working district and its tyre trouble reflects that. The A40 crosses the northern edge over the Greenford Flyover, the A4127 Greenford Road climbs away from the roundabout towards Sudbury Hill, and between them sit estate after estate of vans on their second set of tyres. Damage is often load damage: a sidewall pinched against a kerb while reversing onto a bay, or a screw driven home on an estate road. The replacement is brought to the vehicle rather than the vehicle to it.
| Postcode districts | UB6, UB1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Western Avenue (A40); Greenford Flyover (A40); Greenford Road (A4127); Karoline Gardens (A40) |
| Nearest stations | Greenford (National Rail;London Underground), South Greenford (National Rail), Northolt (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Westway Shopping Park, Kelvin Industrial Estate, Cranleigh Gardens Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 7 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Ealing |
What we do in Greenford
Tyre work in Greenford.
A fleet call is different from a household one and gets treated that way. Commercial casings, reinforced sidewalls and the heavier load ratings are stocked against the code on the tyre, alongside ordinary car sizes. Where a nail has gone into tread and the carcass is sound, the mend is made from within, to BS AU 159, and that tyre goes back onto the vehicle rather than into a skip. Where it is not sound, a new one goes on and the wheel gets looked at. Locking nuts missing their keys are drawn off first.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Greenford
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives carry the bulk of the residential work, and given a choice a fitter picks one every time. On the estates a yard, or a marked bay well clear of the loading doors, is better again, so long as whoever runs the site expects a van. There is no council car park sitting in the middle of Greenford, so where the car will still drive, the customer parking at Westway Shopping Park is the sensible place to meet. The Ruislip Road kerb is not: too narrow and too busy to kneel beside.
The residential half of UB6 lies south of the Ruislip Road, streets of semis with driveways where a car can simply stay put. North and west of that the map turns industrial: Kelvin Industrial Estate, Lyon Way, Greenford Green Business Park and the Grand Union Enterprise Park, with Northolt Industrial Estate just over the boundary. Those are where the van calls originate, and where there is genuine space to work. The Greenford Roundabout and the flyover carry too much traffic to stop on, so a tyre failing at either means coming off into the estate roads first. Greenford is well inside the ULEZ, which bites on a non-compliant van being driven to a fitter and not at all on one held still.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Greenford.
The estates start loading before daylight, and a flat discovered at that point costs a driver his whole round, so those are the overnight calls out of UB6, along with people home late off the A40. Somebody is on the end of the phone all night. You hear what the job costs before you hang up.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Excellent service from start to finish. He came out quickly to help my mum change her tyre and was extremely friendly."
EHEllie-Mai HalesGoogle review
Greenford FAQs
Questions from Greenford.
Can a tyre be changed in a yard on one of the Greenford estates?
An estate yard is the best surface in UB6 for it. Tell the site office a fitter is coming, keep the vehicle clear of the loading bays, and the wheel is off and back on with everything worked from the van's own equipment.
If a tyre goes near the Greenford Flyover, where should I pull off?
Come off the A40 and into the estate roads or a residential street south of the Ruislip Road. The flyover and the roundabout have no safe standing space at all. If the vehicle cannot be moved, call 999 or National Highways on 0300 123 5000 first.
Can a wheel be balanced at the roadside in UB6?
The van carries wheel balancing equipment, so a new tyre is weighted and checked for balance at the roadside and goes straight back onto the vehicle. Nothing has to be carried off to a workshop and returned to you later on.
Do you fit tyres on vans as well as cars in UB6?
Van sizes, load ratings and reinforced fitments are handled exactly as car tyres are, from the code on the sidewall. Give us the vehicle and its full tyre size when you ring, so the right casing is already aboard when the fitter sets out.
Nearby
Around Greenford.
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Ruislip Road, Kelvin Industrial Estate or a UB6 driveway: the tyre arrives with the fitter.