Mobile tyre fitting
in New Headington.

A fitter at your car
in New Headington.

Most of the trouble here arrives off the B4495. Windmill Road and The Slade carry the local traffic in both directions, and a tyre that collects a screw along either one usually holds air long enough to get home, which is exactly where the fitter wants it. The rest of the calls come off the A4142 Eastern By-pass Road and the Green Road Roundabout, where a kerbed rim or a split sidewall is the usual outcome. Read the size off the sidewall, name your OX3 street, and the fitter sets off with that tyre already loaded.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A private hardstanding is the best surface in New Headington and most jobs end on one. A resident bay serves when the cars in front and behind have left room for a jack, so mention which side the car is parked on. St Leonards Road Car Park gives flat, open ground if the car will still travel that far. The yards on the Shotover Trading Estate and at City Works suit a van, provided whoever runs the site expects a fitter. The running lanes of the A4142 are the last place to put a car on a jack.

Work comes in from the roads on both sides of Windmill Road, from Town Furze and Highfield, and from the houses backing onto the Gipsy Lane Estate. The repeated name confuses deliveries and fitters alike, so the postcode and the street together matter more than the district: Old Headington, Headington Quarry and Headington Hill are all separate ground within a mile of here, and Wood Farm begins on the far side of The Slade. Off-street space is what makes a job easy or awkward. Where a house has its own hardstanding, the wheel comes off there. Where it does not, the car needs a bay with room to stand beside it rather than one boxed in nose to tail. Templars Shopping Park and the trade units on Horspath Road account for the rest.