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Kingshurst, West Midlands · B37 and B36
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Kingshurst.
Kingshurst is a residential Solihull village just off the A452 Chester Road, between Fordbridge and Smith's Wood. Rescue Tyres sends a fitter to the house, and the tyre goes on with the car parked on its drive or on the road outside.
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Tyre trouble in Kingshurst?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Kingshurst.
In Kingshurst, tyre problems are mostly family car problems. A slow puncture noticed as the children pile in for school, a tyre worn past the legal limit spotted while the car is being washed, a sidewall nicked against a kerb on Birmingham Road. The Chester Road is the main way out, and it is where drivers usually first feel a pull to one side. Ring with the postcode, the size and a note of any warning light, and the tyre is sourced before the visit.
| Postcode districts | B37, B36 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Chester Road (A452); Birmingham Road |
| Nearest stations | Marston Green (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 4 (Coleshill Interchange), about 1.0 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Waterloo Industrial Estate, Griffin Business Park, Ace Business Park |
| Distance from our base | about 90 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Shard End |
What we do in Kingshurst
Tyre work in Kingshurst.
Replacement tyres are fitted to the exact size on the sidewall, with the old ones taken away. Where a nail or screw has pierced the main tread, the wheel is demounted and the hole plugged and patched from inside, following BS AU 159, rather than filled with a temporary aerosol. A burst tyre is swapped on the drive or kerb. Plenty of cars bought second hand turn up without a locking wheel nut key, and those nuts can be removed and replaced.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Kingshurst
Drives, bays and car parks.
A home driveway suits the job best, and nobody needs to stand beside the car if the keys are left safely. On the street, a straight stretch of kerb with space round the wheel works. The Morrisons and Co-op Food car parks can serve in a quiet corner with the store's consent. Bus stops, the junctions onto Birmingham Road and anywhere on the Chester Road itself are left alone, however convenient they look.
Calls come from the roads on both sides of Birmingham Road, from the homes towards Fordbridge and Bacon's End, and from the Smith's Wood side where the postcode turns from B37 to B36. It is a village of houses with drives and quiet roads, which makes it easy ground for a mobile fitter. For a car kept on the street, the kerb outside is fine unless it sits on a bend or blocks someone's dropped kerb. Birmingham Road and the Chester Road carry buses and through traffic, so shift a car with a flat off them before anything else happens. Being in Solihull, Kingshurst lies outside any clean air scheme.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Kingshurst.
Kingshurst night calls are usually about getting to work in the morning: a nurse or warehouse worker who finds a flat at five, or somebody coming home late along the Chester Road with a tyre going soft. The phone is picked up whenever it rings, and the total is fixed in that conversation.
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What drivers say.
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Kingshurst FAQs
Questions from Kingshurst.
I bought a used car in Kingshurst and there is no locking wheel nut key. What can be done?
Locking nuts can be removed without the key using proper extraction tools, normally without marking the alloy. Plain nuts replace them, which makes every later tyre change simpler. Search the glovebox, door pockets and under the boot floor first, as the key often turns up there.
Can you fit a tyre while my car is parked on the street in Kingshurst?
In most cases, provided the kerb is straight and the fitter has space on every side of the wheel. A car on a bend, over a dropped kerb or close to a junction with Birmingham Road may need moving a few yards first, which the fitter will explain.
Is a can of tyre sealant as good as a proper puncture repair?
An aerosol sealant is a get-you-home measure and nothing more. A lasting repair involves demounting the tyre and bonding a patch-plug inside the casing, the method BS AU 159 lays down. Mention it on the call if you have already used a sealant.
Do you cover the B36 part of Kingshurst?
The whole village is covered, whether the address is B37 near Fordbridge or B36 towards Smith's Wood. Quote the postcode in full with your road name, and a single agreed figure covering the tyre and the visit comes out of that same call.
Nearby
Around Kingshurst.
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Birmingham Road, the Chester Road or the streets towards Smith's Wood: in Kingshurst the fitter comes to the car.