★★★★★
"Had two tyres replaced and was really impressed. Friendly and efficient, job completed quickly. Highly recommend!"
PNPegah NourmandGoogle review
Harcourt Hill, Oxfordshire · OX2 and OX1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Harcourt Hill.
Harcourt Hill sits above Botley and North Hinksey with the A34 Southern By-pass Road running below it and West Way a short drop away. Rescue Tyres brings tyre and balancing gear up the hill to wherever the car has come to rest.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Harcourt Hill?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Harcourt Hill.
Harcourt Hill is a campus and a scatter of houses rather than a high street, which shapes the tyre work. Cars sit still all day in one place, so a nail picked up on West Way or Eynsham Road is usually discovered at going-home time, flat and unhelpful. The A34 supplies the rest, because a strike at that speed does not always announce itself. Whichever it is, the car does not need to move: send the OX2 postcode and the numbers off the sidewall.
| Postcode districts | OX2, OX1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Southern By-pass Road (A34); Eynsham Road (B4044); West Way (B4044) |
| Nearest stations | Oxford (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Botley Road Retail Park, West Way Shopping Centre, Seacourt Retail Park |
| Distance from our base | about 47 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Oxford |
What we do in Harcourt Hill
Tyre work in Harcourt Hill.
A campus bay job and a lane job need the same kit, and the van carries it: replacement tyres in the fitment the vehicle already has, run-flat and 4x4 sizes included, plus the balancer that separates a wheel which is on from a wheel which is right. Tread punctures earn a BS AU 159 repair once the tyre has been lifted clear and its inner face read. A cut sidewall, or a run-flat that has done a journey with nothing in it, gets replaced instead. Locking nuts surrender without their key. The night line stays open.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Harcourt Hill
Drives, bays and car parks.
Level and firm decides it. A drive on the hill is first choice, a residential kerb second, and a hard verge only if it genuinely takes weight without giving. Campus parking works when the site says so, and that call is worth making before the van sets off rather than after. What is not on the table is the A34 itself, or its approaches: that traffic is moving at a speed nobody should be kneeling beside.
The people who ring from here are students and staff parked on campus ground, households on the hill and in the lanes towards Chilswell and Boars Hill, and drivers from North Hinksey, New Botley and Dean Court who find the hill the easiest place to leave a car. The parking listed around Harcourt Hill is all somebody's private ground: campus bays, business parking and overflow spaces attached to premises. None of it is open parking, so a car in a campus bay needs the site's blessing before a fitter starts on it. Off the hill, Botley Road Retail Park, Seacourt Retail Park and West Way Shopping Centre are the retailers' tarmac rather than public ground. A drive, a residential kerb or a lane with a firm edge is simpler than any of them.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Harcourt Hill.
Late calls from Harcourt Hill come from people finishing on campus, and from drivers just off the A34 with a tyre they would not trust as far as home. Whatever the hour, somebody answers 07473 720871, takes the size, and puts a figure on the callout and the tyre there and then.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and reliable."
KSKhurram ShehzadGoogle review
Harcourt Hill FAQs
Questions from Harcourt Hill.
Can you work in the campus car park at Harcourt Hill?
Those bays belong to the site rather than to the public, so the answer comes from whoever runs the parking. Most places are content once they know a van will be in and out of a single bay. Get the nod first, then ring with the size.
I damaged a tyre on the A34. Where do I take the car?
Leave the trunk road at whichever exit comes up, then find a residential road, or come up towards the hill, where parking is possible. Ring once you are there. A car incapable of being driven needs recovering to somewhere safe before anything else.
Do you reach the lanes towards Boars Hill and Chilswell?
Those are on the round, along with North Hinksey, Dean Court and New Botley. A lane address is harder to find than a street one, so give the full postcode and something to look for at the gate. The tyre then comes out to you.
Does a wheel get balanced properly out here?
Balancing happens at the car, wherever it is parked, because the equipment travels in the van. What cannot be done from a van is wheel alignment, which needs a fixed rig and a ramp, so that one stays with a garage.
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Around Harcourt Hill.
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From the campus to North Hinksey and the lanes at Chilswell, the wheel is changed where you left it.