★★★★★
"I urgently needed to replace my tyres and the team were prompt, friendly and efficient at a great price."
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Highgate, West Midlands, near Walsall · WS1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Highgate.
Highgate is the WS1 slope of Walsall between the A34 Birmingham Road and Sutton Road, just south of the town centre. A Rescue Tyres van carries the replacement, jack and balancing gear to the car, on a driveway or in a council long-stay bay.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours
Tyre trouble in Highgate?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Highgate.
Most Highgate tyre calls start on the A34 Birmingham Road, the main route up into Walsall from Great Barr, where a car picks up a screw in heavy traffic and only shows it the next morning. Sutton Road, the B4151, brings the rest in from the Park Hall side. Send a photo of the sidewall size or read it out over the phone, add the street, and the fitter loads the right tyre before leaving.
| Postcode districts | WS1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Broadway North (A4148); Broadway (A4148); Birmingham Road (A34); Broadway West (A4148) |
| Nearest stations | Walsall (National Rail), Bescot Stadium (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 9 (Wednesbury Interchange), about 1.2 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Jerome Retail Park, Crown Wharf Shopping Park, Broadwalk Retail Park |
| Distance from our base | about 101 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Walsall |
What we do in Highgate
Tyre work in Highgate.
Four jobs make up most of the work in Highgate. A new tyre, ordered to match what is moulded on the old sidewall and chosen at the budget, mid-range or premium level you prefer. A screw through the tread, patched from the inner face of the casing if the hole lands inside the area where BS AU 159 lets a repair stand. A tyre torn open on a kerb, replaced and balanced from the van. And a locking wheel nut with no key, taken off with an extractor so the wheel can come away. The line stays open overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Highgate
Drives, bays and car parks.
Highgate homes mostly have a drive or a stretch of kerb outside, and the fitter only needs room to kneel beside the wheel. The Ablewell Street and Tantarra Street long-stay car parks are public and flat, so a car left there for the day can be sorted without moving it. The Lidl and Asda car parks are for customers, so ask the store before a fitting goes ahead there. Birmingham Road kerbside, with traffic climbing past, is not somewhere to jack up a car.
This is a residential pocket, so most jobs are at the houses between Birmingham Road and Sutton Road, with Caldmore on one side and the Chuckery a short walk to the north. Anyone working in town can leave the car in a council long-stay car park such as Ablewell Street or Tantarra Street and have the tyre done there, which suits commuters who park and walk down to Walsall station. The Broadway ring, the A4148, marks the edge of Highgate to the west and north, and nobody changes a wheel on it; Birmingham Road at busy times is no better. A side street off either road, hazards on and room at the wheel, is normally fine, and it is the place to steer a car whose tyre is softening before anybody climbs out.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Highgate.
After dark, Highgate calls tend to come from people finishing late in the town centre who walk back to a flat tyre in a long-stay bay, or from drivers who caught a kerb swinging off Birmingham Road. Somebody answers at any hour, and no job goes ahead until the caller has heard, and accepted, the total for tyre plus visit.
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
Highgate FAQs
Questions from Highgate.
Is this the Highgate in Walsall, not the one in London?
This page is the Walsall one: the WS1 streets between the A34 Birmingham Road and Sutton Road, south of the town centre. Rescue Tyres works right across Walsall as well as north London, so mention the postcode when you ring and the fitter heads for the right Highgate.
Can you change a tyre in the Tantarra Street long-stay car park?
That council car park is public, so a fitting in a marked bay is workable as long as the ticket runs for as long as the car stays. Share the bay number, tyre size and car colour, and the fitter locates it with nobody standing guard.
My tyre went flat on the A34 Birmingham Road. Where should I stop?
Pull into the first side street or car park where the car sits clear of the traffic, then call. Birmingham Road is too busy for a jack at the kerb. Should the tyre break up and leave you stuck in a live lane, get out on the pavement side and dial 999.
Does Walsall have a clean air zone like Birmingham?
No scheme of that kind runs anywhere in Walsall borough, and even where such zones exist, a car standing still for a tyre swap is never billed. Birmingham's zone is the nearest, and it only covers the streets within the A4540 Middleway.
Nearby
Around Highgate.
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Birmingham Road, Sutton Road or a bay on Ablewell Street: the fitter drives to wherever the car is standing in Highgate.