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Kennington, Oxfordshire, near Vale of White Horse · OX1 and OX4
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Kennington.
This is Kennington in Oxfordshire, the village ringed by the A423 Southern By-pass Road, the Kennington Roundabout and the A4144 Abingdon Road. Rescue Tyres brings the tyre out and fits it where the car already sits.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 1.5 to 2 hours
Tyre trouble in Kennington?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Kennington.
Three postcode districts reach into this village, OX1, OX4 and OX14, and the first useful thing to tell a fitter is which one the car is standing in. The tyre trouble itself is ordinary enough: something collected on the Abingdon Road or on the run round to the Heyford Hill Roundabout, a warning light a day later, and a wheel down flat by the weekend. Read the sidewall, ring it through, and the replacement or the repair gear comes to the address.
| Postcode districts | OX1, OX4, OX14 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Southern By-pass Road (A423); Heyford Hill Roundabout; Kennington Roundabout; Eastern Bypass (A4142) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Templars Shopping Park, Sandford Lane Industrial Estate, Oxford Sewage Treatment Works |
| Distance from our base | about 45 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 Kennington
Tyre work in Kennington.
Everything done in Kennington happens at the address you give. New tyres are chosen from the markings the vehicle already wears, with run-flat, van and electric sizes ordered by the same route. A puncture falling inside what BS AU 159 permits is stripped from the rim and mended from within instead of being sold over. A blown tyre is taken away for disposal and the rim is read over before its replacement goes on. Where a locking nut key has gone astray, an extractor lifts the nut out undamaged. The callout line runs through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Kennington
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives take most of it. The village is largely houses with parking of their own, so the car usually needs no moving whatever. Redbridge Park and Ride has level bays with clearance either side, which is what lifting a car asks for. The Co-op Food and the Sainsbury's have customer bays belonging to the store rather than to the public, so a word with staff comes before any arrangement there. Templars Shopping Park is the same on a bigger scale. The bypass carriageways are out of the question.
Kennington hangs off the A4144 Abingdon Road with the bypass network wrapped around it: the A423 Southern By-pass Road along one side, the A4142 Eastern Bypass beyond the Heyford Hill Roundabout, and the Hinksey Hill Interchange at the far end. Calls arrive from the residential streets in the middle of the village, from Sandford-on-Thames and South Hinksey next door, from Bayworth and Foxcombe Hill, and from working vehicles on the Sandford Lane Industrial Estate. Most end on private parking. None of those roundabouts is a place to halt, the Kennington Roundabout least of all, since there is no hard standing beside it. Redbridge Park and Ride works as a rendezvous for anything still capable of driving, with the ticket left running while the wheel is away.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Kennington.
The late ring here is often somebody who has come off the A423 losing air and got as far as their own street before giving up on it. Drivers on the Sandford Lane estate account for a good share of the rest. At any hour you get a live answer, a check on the size, and the total before the van leaves Brent Cross.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast and reliable."
KSKhurram ShehzadGoogle review
Kennington FAQs
Questions from Kennington.
Which Kennington do you actually cover?
The Oxfordshire one, in OX1, OX4 and OX14, off the A4144 Abingdon Road beside the Kennington Roundabout. Three British places carry this name, so a postcode on the booking removes any doubt about which village the van should be heading for.
Can a fitter meet me at Redbridge Park and Ride?
Redbridge suits this well. The bays are flat, hard and wide enough to work beside without standing in a traffic lane. Leave the car somewhere with an empty space alongside, keep the ticket valid, and pass on the row before the van sets off.
My address is an OX14 part of Kennington. Does that change anything?
Nothing about the job or the cover. It matters only because the postcode tells a fitter exactly which end of the village to aim for, which the street name alone will not always do here. Give it in full when you book.
Something went through the tyre on the Abingdon Road. Where do I stop?
Turn off into the village or carry on to Redbridge Park and Ride rather than stopping on the A4144 itself. Once the car can sit undisturbed, send the size, the postcode and a word on whether it is sitting on the rim or just going down.
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Around Kennington.
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Abingdon Road, the Kennington Roundabout or the Redbridge bays: a fitter attends the car itself.