★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire · LU7
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Ivinghoe.
Ivinghoe is a small Buckinghamshire village on an LU7 postcode, with the B489 running through it and a Station Road that has no station on it. A fitter drives out to it and sorts the tyre on the spot.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Ivinghoe?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Ivinghoe.
Ivinghoe is small and it has no station of its own, so a car with a flat on Church Road or High Street is a car going nowhere until somebody comes to it. That is the entire use of a mobile fitter. Most of the damage here arrives off the lanes and the verges either side of the B489, where flint sits in the grass and finds a sidewall. Say what the tyre wall reads and give the postcode, and the right cover is on board before the van pulls away.
| Postcode districts | LU7 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Church Road (B489); Station Road (B488); High Street (B489); Marsworth Road (B489) |
| Distance from our base | about 25 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Tring |
What we do in Ivinghoe
Tyre work in Ivinghoe.
Everything is carried to the car: the replacement in whatever size the old one wears, the gear to break it off the rim and balance the new one, and the extractor for a locking nut whose key has vanished. A tread puncture is looked at from within and mended to BS AU 159 where the damage falls inside it. Anything through the sidewall, or a tyre driven on while empty, becomes a replacement. The phone is covered day and night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Ivinghoe
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives, gateways and farm yards are what this village offers, and all three suit a jack where the ground is firm and level. Gravel is fine, wet grass is not. The Beacon car park and the one at Pitstone Hill serve people out walking and belong to whoever looks after that land, which rules both of them out for a car raised on a jack. The B489 verges are out as well, narrow and soft with traffic passing close.
Three names around here sound alike and mean different places: Ivinghoe itself, Ivinghoe Aston a little over a mile out, and the car park at Ivinghoe Beacon. Saying which of them you are at saves a wasted trip, and the postcode settles it. Calls come from the houses along Church Road and High Street, from Ford End and Great Gap just outside, and from Cooks Wharf, Bulbourne and Marsworth on the way towards Tring. Almost every address has a drive or a yard, and that is where a wheel comes off. No part of the village amounts to public parking, and Station Road, whatever its name suggests, leads to nothing that would serve.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Ivinghoe.
A night call from Ivinghoe is a rare thing and usually pressing: somebody back from a late shift who cannot leave the car blocking a lane, or a driver who needs it right by morning. The line is covered after dark, the tyre size is taken while you talk, and a price is put on the job before anybody drives out.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Had a rapidly deflating tyre. Rang Rescue Tyres, they had it in stock and I was back on the road within an hour."
BRBradley ReeveGoogle review
Ivinghoe FAQs
Questions from Ivinghoe.
Is Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire even though the postcode starts LU?
It is. LU7 reaches across the county line, which catches out satnavs and delivery drivers alike. For a tyre call it changes nothing: the postcode and the road name are enough, and the village sits well inside the area covered from north London.
Can a fitter work at the Ivinghoe Beacon car park?
Better not. That car park serves people out walking and belongs to whoever manages the land, not the village. A drive, a gateway or a yard is a steadier surface anyway, and the fitter would sooner come to the car where it already sits.
Do you cover Ivinghoe Aston, Ford End and Great Gap?
All three are on the round, with Cheddington, Cooks Wharf and Marsworth beyond them. Because the names run together around here, give the postcode with the village name so the van lands at the correct one. The make and colour of the car helps on an unnumbered lane.
No key exists for the locking wheel nut any more. Can the wheel still come off?
That is a routine call. The fitter carries an extractor that bites onto a damaged or keyless nut and winds it off without marking the wheel, then fits a standard nut in its place. Flag it up front so the right tool travels with the tyre.
Nearby
Around Ivinghoe.
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Church Road, Ford End or a yard at Ivinghoe Aston: the tyre and the fitter arrive together.