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Hyde, The, Greater London · NW9
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Hyde, The.
The Hyde is a stretch of the A5 Edgware Road as much as it is a place, a long straight run of it from West Hendon Broadway up towards Colindale. Rescue Tyres comes out to the vehicle in NW9, off the main road.
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Tyre trouble in Hyde, The?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Hyde, The.
Living beside a trunk road decides what happens to your tyres. The A5 carries lorries and buses past the door all day, and what comes off it settles in the gutter lane everybody turns through. A screw or a shard finds the tread, the tyre holds for a day, then the car is sitting flat on a side street off Colindeep Lane. Give the postcode, which side of the Edgware Road you are on, and the size stamped on the sidewall.
| Postcode districts | NW9 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Watford Way (A41); Hendon Way (A41); Edgware Road (A5); The Hyde (A5) |
| Nearest stations | Hendon (National Rail), Colindale (London Underground), Hendon Central (London Underground) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 1 (Staples Corner), about 1.1 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Silk Bridge Retail Park, Colindale Retail Park, Brent Cross Shopping Park |
| Distance from our base | about 1 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Brent |
What we do in Hyde, The
Tyre work in Hyde, The.
Most jobs at The Hyde are punctures and replacements. A puncture means getting the tyre off the rim to read the liner, then a patch and plug from within where BS AU 159 allows one; where it does not, a fresh tyre of the same size goes on and the worn one is taken away. Burst and shredded tyres are swapped, rim inspected. Locking nuts are extracted when their key has disappeared. Balancing comes before the wheel is bolted home, and the line stays open overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Hyde, The
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives first, on the streets set back from the A5. Failing that, a residential kerb with the car parked properly inside the marking and room behind for the van to draw in. The Asda car park is customer parking, so ask the store before anything is unbolted there, and Hendon Station Car Park sits under railway control rather than anyone else's. Silk Bridge Retail Park is private. What never works is the Edgware Road carriageway or its bus lanes.
Calls come from the residential turnings behind the Edgware Road, from Kingsbury Road and the streets running towards Colindale and West Hendon, and from vans working out of Mill Yard Industrial Estate and the yards near Bunns Lane Works. The Hyde itself is the one spot a fitter will not use: it is a main road with bus lanes, and a jacked car there would be standing in a live traffic lane. Behind it the picture changes entirely, with driveways at plenty of addresses and quiet kerbs where there are none. Central Circus and Queen's Road on the B551 sit in between, busy enough that a turning off them is the better bet. NW9 is ULEZ territory at all hours, although a stationary car under repair is charged nothing.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Hyde, The.
After dark this is shift country: people coming home along the Edgware Road at odd times, and drivers who have pulled off it into a turning because something started thumping. Someone picks up at whatever hour of the night it is, the tyre is matched to what you read off the sidewall, and the figure is agreed before anybody sets out.
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What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Quick, helpful and very understanding of our situation."
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Hyde, The FAQs
Questions from Hyde, The.
Can a fitter work on The Hyde itself, on the Edgware Road?
Not on the main carriageway and not in a bus lane. There is no safe room there, and the car would end up jacked in front of moving traffic. Turn into one of the residential streets behind it, park it properly, then ring with the road name and a number.
Which postcode is The Hyde, and does it matter?
It is NW9, shared with Colindale and the streets towards Kingsbury. It matters because the addresses either side of the Edgware Road look much alike on a map, so the postcode and a number get the fitter to the right kerb without a second phone call.
Can you come out to a van on Mill Yard Industrial Estate?
Vans and light commercials make up a fair slice of the work here. Say which part of the estate the vehicle is standing on, whether the tyre still holds air, and read the size off the sidewall. Whoever runs the site should know a fitter is coming in.
What happens if the puncture is out near the shoulder?
That one is rarely mendable. The repairable area stops short of the shoulder, so damage out there means a replacement even when it looks trivial. A hole in the central band, no wider than six millimetres across, is the one that can be repaired honestly.
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Edgware Road turnings, Colindeep Lane or a yard off Bunns Lane: the fitter travels to the wheel.