Mobile tyre fitting
in Kates Hill.

A fitter at your car
in Kates Hill.

Tyre trouble on Kates Hill tends to begin on the slope. A car parked nose down on a steep terraced street leans hard on its front tyres, and a slow leak shows first on the kerb side. The traffic below on Duncan Edwards Way and the Birmingham Road brings in screws and glass. Park level if you can, copy down the size moulded into the rubber, then phone: the job is done beside the house in DY2.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A drive or a level kerbside space on a residential road is the working surface most people here have, and it is enough. On a steep street, the car should be parked with the handbrake on and the wheels turned into the kerb before the fitter arrives. The Flood Street short stay car park takes a tyre change in a marked bay. The islands, Castle Hill and Duncan Edwards Way itself are ruled out.

The calls come from the terraces climbing the hill, from Dixons Green on its southern side and from the streets towards Paradise and White Cross. Many of those roads are narrow, with cars lined along both kerbs, so it helps to say on the call which corner of the car is down and whether the van can stop alongside. A car that can still be moved is often better shifted to a wider road first. The Flood Street short stay car parks at the bottom of the hill are council parking and a workable spot if the car reached them. The Castle Gate Island and Flood Street Island junctions are not: nothing stops on them. The Coneygree Business Park and the Dudley Central Industrial Estate supply the odd van call from the trade side.