Mobile tyre fitting
in Hazelwood.

A fitter at your car
in Hazelwood.

Addresses around Hazelwood are mostly BR6, with TN14 and TN16 taking over as you go south, and that mix is the first thing to sort out on the phone so the fitter arrives at the right hamlet. After that it is straightforward. Most vehicles here spend their time on the lanes towards Downe, Farthing Street and Green Street Green, and most of the damage is a slow puncture noticed on a cold morning. The wheel is lifted wherever the car happens to be parked.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Private parking is the rule rather than the exception at Hazelwood, so nearly everything is done on the householder's own ground. What the fitter needs is a firm surface, a car that is not on a slope and room to get round the wheel that is coming off. A business park yard does the same job for a van. What cannot be used is any position that leaves the car partly in a lane, or a grass verge where the jack would sink under load.

Downe is under a mile west, Green Street Green about the same to the north, and Farthing Street, Luxted and Pratt's Bottom ring it beyond that, so a caller normally describes the turning rather than the hamlet. Houses here have their own parking, which makes them easy: level ground, no traffic and space for a van to draw up. Glebe Farm Business Park takes working vehicles. The Queen's Head car park at Downe is near enough to serve as a meeting point when the tyre will hold air that far. The lanes joining these places are single width in stretches and no place for a jack. As part of Bromley this is ULEZ territory, a point drivers here often query given how rural it feels, and the charge applies to a vehicle moving rather than a vehicle parked.