★★★★★
"Very quick and efficient service."
LMLynn MillbournGoogle review
Mill Hill, Greater London, near Barnet · NW7
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Mill Hill.
Mill Hill, NW7, runs from The Ridgeway on top of the hill down to the Broadway and the A1 at Watford Way. Rescue Tyres fits tyres at the car anywhere in between, on a drive or in a yard.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Mill Hill?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Mill Hill.
Two different sorts of tyre trouble share one postcode. Up on The Ridgeway and around Mill Hill Village the lanes are narrow with high kerbs and no pavement in places, so sidewalls take the damage. Down at the Broadway and along Bunns Lane it is screws and debris off a busier surface. None of it requires the car to go anywhere: give the address, the size from the sidewall and a rough idea of where the vehicle is standing, and the fitter comes to it.
| Postcode districts | NW7 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Watford Way (A1); Mill Hill Circus; The Broadway (A5100); Highwood Hill (A5109) |
| Nearest stations | Mill Hill Broadway (National Rail), Mill Hill East (London Underground) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 2 (Five Ways Corner), about 1.1 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Mill Hill Industrial Estate, Bunns Lane Works |
| Distance from our base | about 3 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Barnet |
What we do in Mill Hill
Tyre work in Mill Hill.
Work in NW7 splits between new tyres and repairs. A new cover is matched to the markings already carried by the car and fitted at the address. Punctures get judged once the tyre is dismounted: an object through the centre of the tread leaving a hole at or under six millimetres is repaired to BS AU 159 with a combined plug and patch; a sidewall cut from one of the lane kerbs cannot be mended and gets replaced. Locking nuts are removed without marking the alloy, and the line is answered through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Mill Hill
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway is the normal answer in NW7 and most addresses have one. When a car sits on a narrow lane with no footway, the fitter would rather it were rolled onto a hardstanding or a verge that will take the weight of a jack. Mill Hill Broadway has a station car park, and whether a wheel may come off in it is for the operator to say, so ask first. Past that there is nothing public to fall back on, in the village or on the Broadway.
Callers come from the Marshall Estate and the Chalet Estate, from the streets off Daws Lane and Hammers Lane, and from the houses along Highwood Hill and Marsh Lane. Most of those addresses have a drive, which settles the question of where the work happens. The village end is different: The Ridgeway and the turnings off it are narrow, sometimes without a kerb at all, and a jacked car parked badly there blocks everything behind it, so the fitter will ask for a firm bit of hardstanding instead. The A1 at Mill Hill Circus and the M1 at Five Ways Corner are for getting off, not for stopping on. Bittacy Hill and the approach to Mill Hill East are busier than their width suggests.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Mill Hill.
Late calls in Mill Hill divide between people home from the A1 with a tyre that has been drumming since Five Ways Corner and residents who step out to an early start and find one flat on the drive. Somebody answers through the small hours, the size is checked against the sidewall before anything gets loaded, and the cost is agreed then.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Quick, helpful and very understanding of our situation."
EAEva AshmoreGoogle review
Mill Hill FAQs
Questions from Mill Hill.
My tyre blew on the M1 near Five Ways Corner. Where should I stop?
Not on the hard shoulder and not in an emergency area: a fitter cannot work in either, and standing there is dangerous. Leave at the junction and find a side road off Watford Way. Should the car be immovable, ring 999, then National Highways on 0300 123 5000.
Can you come up to Mill Hill Village and The Ridgeway?
The village is normal ground. The one complication is the width of the road, so the fitter needs the car on a drive or a hardstanding rather than parked on a lane where nothing else can pass. Say which house and which side the flat tyre is on.
Is there parking at Mill Hill Broadway where you could meet me?
The station car park is railway property rather than council tarmac, and the operator decides what happens on it. Plenty of callers find it simpler to leave the car at home and give the fitter the address, or to name a residential turning nearby.
Do you fit tyres on vans at the Mill Hill Industrial Estate?
Commercial vehicles on the estate and at Bunns Lane Works are dealt with where they are parked, which is usually a yard with room to swing a jack. Give the size and how many wheels are involved when you ring so the right stock travels out.
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Around Mill Hill.
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The Ridgeway, Daws Lane or the Broadway in NW7: the fitter changes the tyre at the vehicle.