Mobile tyre fitting
in Havering-atte-Bower.

A fitter at your car
in Havering-atte-Bower.

Tyre damage in a village like this tends to be kerb and verge damage rather than motorway debris. The B175 narrows in places, with soft edges where a wheel drops off the tarmac, and a sidewall pinched against a kerb on North Road will never take a repair. So the first question on the phone is what the damage looks like and whereabouts on the tyre it sits. Give the RM4 postcode, the house or farm name and the size.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Drives, gravel turning areas and field gateways are what this village offers, and each beats a roadside. Level, firm footing with space to lift a wheel clear is all that the job asks. Verges tempt people and should not, because soft going under a jack is asking for trouble. Nothing public exists to fall back on, so if a car has stopped somewhere awkward, describe the spot precisely and a plan gets made while you are still on the phone.

People ring from the houses strung along North Road, from properties set back behind gates on Orange Tree Hill and Oak Hill Road, and from the lanes running out to Stapleford Abbotts, How Green and Chase Cross. The postcode does more work than the address here: part of the village answers to RM4, other addresses to RM5, RM3 or RM1, so quoting the full postcode saves a wrong turn. There is no public car park and no station, which sounds awkward and is not, because nearly every property has hardstanding, gravel or a gated yard, and those beat any bay. Out of bounds is the carriageway of the B175, above all on the climb, since a jacked car there sits directly in front of whatever tops the crest.