★★★★★
"Fast and great service! Thanks for the Friday night rescue."
LBLewis BourneGoogle review
Iffley, Oxfordshire · OX4
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Iffley.
Iffley keeps its village shape inside Oxford, tucked behind the A4158 that runs through as Rose Hill and Henley Avenue, with the Eastern By-pass and Littlemore Roundabout beyond. The tyre travels to the car here, not the other way round.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 1.5 to 2 hours
Tyre trouble in Iffley?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Iffley.
Two kinds of tyre trouble reach Iffley. One arrives off the A4142, where a strike at bypass speed puts a bulge in a sidewall that only shows up once the car is parked on a turning off Church Cowley Road. The other is slower and more familiar: a nail collected on an ordinary errand, a tyre that is soft again every third morning. Neither needs the car driven anywhere. Send the size, the OX4 postcode and a note of where it is standing.
| Postcode districts | OX4 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Littlemore Roundabout; Eastern Bypass (A4142); Eastern By-pass Road (A4142); Heyford Hill Roundabout |
| Estates and parks nearby | Templars Shopping Park, Oxford Retail Park, 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 Iffley
Tyre work in Iffley.
Work in Iffley runs from the ordinary to the urgent. A new tyre is picked to suit what the car already wears, then balanced on the spot. A tread puncture gets broken off the rim and examined from within before anything is settled, since BS AU 159 governs how large an injury may be and whereabouts a repair is allowed to sit; beyond that, replacement it is. A blow-out means a same-visit swap. The callout line stays open through the night, and locking nuts part company with the wheel even when the key has vanished.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Iffley
Drives, bays and car parks.
Iffley's best surfaces are private ones: a drive, a gravelled frontage that has been rolled flat, a courtyard behind a house. Firm and level is the whole test. On the street, the fitter needs the width of an open door plus room to kneel, which most turnings give once a neighbour's car has gone to work. Grass, gravel that shifts underfoot and any slope worth noticing are all ruled out. Barns Road Car Park suits anyone whose car will still roll that far.
The callers split by which side of Iffley they live on. Old Rose Hill and the turnings towards Church Cowley sit close to Between Towns Road and the shops; Iffley Fields and Donnington face towards Abingdon Road; Littlemore and Cowley Airfield are a short run out. Where a turning is too narrow for the van to pass a parked car, the fitter works from whichever end has room, or asks you to move forward a length. Barns Road Car Park is the nearest genuinely public parking, while Templars Shopping Park is the operator's ground rather than open parking, so permission comes first. The circulating lanes at Littlemore Roundabout and Heyford Hill Roundabout are never a place to stand a jacked car.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Iffley.
Iffley rings late for undramatic reasons. A car left on a turning overnight has gone flat on its rim by morning, or somebody coming back from a late finish will not risk the drive to work on a tyre that looks wrong. The number is the same after midnight, 07473 720871, and a realistic arrival time is part of that conversation, not a guess afterwards.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"After damaging my tyre on a pothole I found myself in an unfamiliar area. Within 20 minutes of calling Rescue Tyres they came to my rescue. Wholeheartedly recommend."
DSDaniella SaccoGoogle review
Iffley FAQs
Questions from Iffley.
Will your van fit down an Iffley turning?
It is a working van rather than an artic, and it parks where any delivery does. Where a turning is genuinely too tight, the fitter works from the nearest point with room and walks the wheel down. Name the street when you ring and that part is settled on the phone.
Something struck my tyre on the Eastern By-pass. Where should I stop?
Come off at Littlemore Roundabout or Heyford Hill Roundabout and find a side road with space to park. Checking a sidewall beside moving traffic is not worth anyone's nerve. Once you are stationary and safe, call with the size and your location.
Can you work in Barns Road Car Park?
That one is public parking with proper bays, which is all a jack asks for. Take a space away from the busy end, tell the fitter your row, and the wheel comes off beside you, with you sitting inside if it is raining.
How do I know whether my tyre can be repaired at all?
It depends where the damage sits and how big it is, and that can only be judged with the tyre off the rim. Punctures through the middle of the tread are usually mendable. Anything through a shoulder or a sidewall, or a tyre run flat, is not.
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Around Iffley.
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Church Cowley Road, Barns Road Car Park or a drive in OX4, and the wheel comes off where you parked.