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Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire · OX3
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Headington Quarry.
Headington Quarry lies in OX3 about a fifth of a mile from the Green Road Roundabout, the point at which the A40 and the A4142 Eastern By-pass come together. Rescue Tyres carries tyre, machine and balancer out to the parked car.
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Tyre trouble in Headington Quarry?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Headington Quarry.
The A40 and the A4142 both come within a fifth of a mile of these houses, and plenty of the calls from Headington Quarry start with something picked up out on them that only gave up once the car was back home. The rest are kerbing, ageing tyres and wheels that lose pressure in cold weather. What the fitter wants from you is the sidewall size, the street name, and whether the car will still move.
| Postcode districts | OX3 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | London Road (A40); Eastern By-pass Road (A4142); Green Road Roundabout; North Way (A40) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Shotover Trading Estate, Horspath Road Industrial Estate, City Works |
| Distance from our base | about 44 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Oxford |
What we do in Headington Quarry
Tyre work in Headington Quarry.
Most of the work near the bypass is straight replacement: a tyre in the correct size, mounted, weighted on the balancer and torqued down. Where a puncture is worth saving, it comes off the rim, gets examined from the inner face and is patched under BS AU 159. Blow-outs mean a new tyre plus a check that the rim took no damage. A lost locking key means the nut is extracted and plain ones go on. Weekends and small hours are covered by the same phone.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Headington Quarry
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive, a private forecourt or a kerb with space beside it covers nearly every job in OX3 here. Thornhill Park and Ride is worth knowing about: wide bays, hard standing and simple directions, which make it a good place to meet when the car is drivable. The two Headington car parks do the same at a smaller scale. The bypass roads and the roundabout are off limits, and so is anywhere the car would block a turning.
What shapes most jobs here is simply where the car can stand. Houses with a drive are the easy half of the list, and the job finishes without the car moving an inch. Houses without one leave a car at the kerb among others, and a fitter needs a clear working side, which sometimes means waiting for a neighbour to move or rolling the car forward a length. For anything still drivable there are better options close by: St Leonards Road Car Park, Headington Car Park, or Thornhill Park and Ride, which has the most room of the three. Calls also come from Barton, Sandhills and Wood Farm on the same round. Nothing gets done on the Green Road Roundabout or on either of the roads feeding it.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Headington Quarry.
Overnight the calls out of here are people who need the car for an early run to the A40 and have found it sitting on a flat, and shift workers back from Oxford. The phone gets answered, the size is taken down, and the figure for the whole job is given before anyone sets off.
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What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Had two tyres replaced and was really impressed. Friendly and efficient, job completed quickly. Highly recommend!"
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Headington Quarry FAQs
Questions from Headington Quarry.
My street is too tight for a van. Is that a problem?
It is common enough around here and rarely stops the job. The van does not have to stand alongside the car, only near enough to carry gear across. If the one clear space is at the end of the road, mention it when booking so the fitter knows.
A tyre let go on the A4142 near the Green Road Roundabout. Where should I stop?
Take the first exit off the bypass and get onto an ordinary street or into a car park before you look at the wheel. Once it is away from the main road, phone through the size and where you have stopped, and the fitting happens there.
Do you cover Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst as well?
All three sit on the same run as Headington Quarry and get the same service. Give the postcode when you ring, because OX3 covers a lot of ground around Headington and the full code puts the van on the right street.
What happens if the spare is also flat?
Then the spare is no help and a new tyre is the answer, which is what the van carries anyway. Give both sizes when you ring if they differ, since a space saver is often a different fitment, and the correct tyre for the road wheel is loaded before setting out.
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Around Headington Quarry.
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Between the Green Road Roundabout, Thornhill Park and Ride and the streets around them, the fitter travels to you.