★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
London Colney, Hertfordshire · AL2
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in London Colney.
Everything in London Colney funnels through the roundabout where the A414 North Orbital Road meets the A1081 London Road, a mile or so from the M25 at junction 22. Rescue Tyres arrives with the correct tyre already aboard.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in London Colney?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in London Colney.
Tyre trouble in this village nearly always starts on a road that was only passing through. The A1081 London Road comes up from junction 22 of the M25 and the A414 crosses it, so something collected on either usually holds air long enough to get the car home. Shenley Lane and the lanes towards Tyttenhanger supply the rest. Quote the code off the tyre wall and an AL2 postcode down the phone, and the correct replacement travels out with the fitter.
| Postcode districts | AL2 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | London Colney Roundabout; North Orbital Road (A414); London Road (A1081); Shenley Lane (B5378) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 22 (The Bell), about 1.4 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Colney Fields Shopping Park, Riverside Industrial Estate, Verulam Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 11 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in St Albans |
What we do in London Colney
Tyre work in London Colney.
Four things happen in this village more than anything else. Tyres are replaced, ordered beforehand against whatever is stamped round the wall of the old one. Punctures are dealt with properly: the tyre is broken off its wheel and the lining examined, and a repair only goes in where BS AU 159 says one may. Tyres that have given out entirely are swapped, with a look at the wheel itself before anything goes back together. Wheels whose security nut has lost its key are freed with a socket made for it. The phone is answered all night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in London Colney
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway or a hard standing beside the house is the ordinary working surface, and nothing needs shifting. Yards on Riverside Industrial Estate and Verulam Industrial Estate suit a van if the site has been warned that a fitter is due. At Colney Fields Shopping Park the parking is the centre's own and not a public facility, so ask inside first, and the supermarket is no different. Lane verges out towards Tyttenhanger are hopeless for this: there is nothing solid underneath to take the weight.
Calls come from the houses around Cotlandswick, the older streets either side of London Road, and working vehicles based on Riverside Industrial Estate and Verulam Industrial Estate. Napsbury Park and the addresses out towards Tyttenhanger and Harperbury Park make up the balance. Nearly every home in the village has private parking of some sort, which is why the great majority of these jobs finish on a drive. The London Colney roundabout and the approach arms of the A414 are no place to stand a jack, and nor is the edge of Shenley Lane with traffic coming round it. Bays at Colney Fields Shopping Park and at the supermarket are owned by those businesses, so somebody there should be told before a van rolls in. Hertfordshire levies no clean air charge.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in London Colney.
After dark the phone here rings for shift workers who walk out to a flat wheel on the drive, for drivers off the M25 at junction 22 with a tyre going soft, and for early loading on the two industrial estates. Any hour, a real person answers, and the Colney job is priced, callout and tyre together, before you ring off.
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
London Colney FAQs
Questions from London Colney.
A tyre has gone on the M25 not far from junction 22. What now?
Nobody works on a hard shoulder and nobody should be sitting on one either. Where the car can still be driven, leave at junction 22 and pull up on a village side road or in parking. If it will not, call 999 or National Highways on 0300 123 5000.
If the car is already out of the house, where can it be met?
Genuinely public options are thin here. Colney Fields Shopping Park and the supermarket both have bays, but those belong to the businesses and staff should be asked first. Failing that, a drive, a hard standing or a unit yard on Riverside Industrial Estate is where a car is best left.
Does anything get charged for clean air around here?
There is a screw in a tyre on Verulam Industrial Estate. Can it be saved?
Only where the damage allows it. Where a small hole lies in the central strip of tread that the standard allows, a plug and patch goes in from inside and the wheel is rebalanced. Split rubber at the shoulder or on the wall of the tyre rules a repair out and a new one goes on.
Nearby
Around London Colney.
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From the North Orbital roundabout to Cotlandswick and the Riverside units, a fitter works beside the car itself.