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Hinksey, Oxfordshire · OX1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Hinksey.
Hinksey lies right against the A423 Southern By-pass Road, with the Hinksey Hill Interchange at one end and Oxford station a little over a mile off. Rescue Tyres fits and repairs tyres wherever in OX1 the car has stopped.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Hinksey?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Hinksey.
The trouble with a place this close to a trunk road is that the tyre often fails on the trunk road. The A423 runs along the edge of Hinksey and offers nowhere to leave a car safely, so the first move is always to get off it: onto the Abingdon Road, down to the Hinksey Hill Interchange, or into Redbridge Park and Ride, whichever is closer. Once the vehicle is somewhere still, read out the sidewall figures and the job gets done on that spot.
| Postcode districts | OX1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Southern By-pass Road (A423); Hinksey Hill Interchange; Kennington Roundabout; Abingdon Road (A4144) |
| Nearest stations | Oxford (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Botley Road Retail Park, Curtis Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 46 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 Hinksey
Tyre work in Hinksey.
Work here is the ordinary run of tyre jobs, done at the car. Replacements are ordered to the exact figures on the sidewall, and van, four wheel drive, run-flat and electric vehicle sizes are handled like any other. A repair under BS AU 159 is possible while the hole lies in the central part of the tread and comes to six millimetres or less; shoulder and sidewall damage rules it out. A blown tyre is exchanged, the rim given a look over first. A nut that has lost its key is drawn off cleanly. The callout line answers overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Hinksey
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway is the straightforward one and takes the bulk of OX1 jobs. Redbridge Park and Ride is the best public surface within reach, level and wide enough that a wheel can come off without anybody standing in a traffic lane. Botley Road Retail Park is private ground belonging to its operator, so treat that as something to ask about first. Curtis Industrial Estate has yards that suit vans when the site agrees. The bypass, the interchange and the bridge approaches are all out.
Addresses here sit in OX1, and that is the thing to quote, because the boundary in this corner is not where people assume it is and the postcode settles the question for a fitter. Calls arrive from Hinksey itself, from South Hinksey a few hundred yards off, from Hinksey Hill, Redbridge, Cold Harbour and South Oxford, and from the working units on the Curtis Industrial Estate. Private drives take most of the work. Weirs Lane and Donnington Bridge carry the B4495 and are through routes, so a car wants moving off them first. The A423 and its interchange are not workable at all. If a vehicle cannot be moved and is sitting somewhere dangerous, ring 999 and call us once it has been recovered to a place of safety.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Hinksey.
Late calls in this pocket of OX1 often come from people off a train at Oxford station who walk back to the car and meet a tyre sitting flat on its rim, and from drivers who have left the A423 rather than press on. The line does not shut at night, and what the whole job costs is put to you before anybody sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Had an issue with my tyre and they fixed it in 10 minutes! Very good service and not expensive."
ISIrina SGoogle review
Hinksey FAQs
Questions from Hinksey.
A tyre let go on the A423 beside Hinksey. What now?
Keep the car moving gently to the Hinksey Hill Interchange, the Abingdon Road or Redbridge Park and Ride. The bypass gives a fitter nowhere safe to stand. If the vehicle genuinely cannot be moved and is in danger, ring 999 and get it recovered first.
Can you come to the car park at Oxford station?
Station parking is run by an operator who has to be content with vehicle work taking place on it, so that is worth checking before you book. A street nearby, or the Redbridge bays, usually turns out to be the simpler arrangement.
Which council area is Hinksey in, for your purposes?
The postcode is what counts, and here it is OX1. The boundaries around Hinksey and South Hinksey are awkward enough that a district name is likelier to misdirect a van than help it, so name the street and the OX1 postcode instead.
Does the Oxford Zero Emission Zone affect a callout to Hinksey?
That scheme covers a small group of streets in the city centre and none of them is here. It would make no difference regardless: any charge of that kind applies to a vehicle being driven, never to one standing still while its wheel is off.
Nearby
Around Hinksey.
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Weirs Lane, the Redbridge bays or a South Hinksey drive, the fitter travels to the car.