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New Town, Bedfordshire, near Luton · LU1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in New Town.
The name belongs to more than forty places across the UK; this New Town is in Luton, LU1, near the A505 Park Viaduct and the A6 Crescent Road. Rescue Tyres comes to where the car is parked and does the job there.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in New Town?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in New Town.
Street parking decides a lot of the tyre trouble in New Town. A sidewall is scuffed against the kerb while squeezing into a space, a wheel is left pressed against the same edge for days, or a screw from the A505 reveals itself only when the pressure warning lights up. Where a car lives at the kerb, the repair can happen there too, and the damaged tyre never has to be driven on. Have the size and your LU1 postcode ready, and the fitter arrives carrying the correct tyre.
| Postcode districts | LU1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Park Viaduct (A505); Chapel Viaduct (A505); New Airport Way (A1081); St Marys Roundabout (A505) |
| Nearest stations | Luton Airport Parkway (National Rail), Luton DART Parkway (DART), Luton (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 10 (Pepperstock), about 1.0 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Luton Retail Park, Telmere Industrial Estate, Flowers Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 22 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Luton |
What we do in New Town
Tyre work in New Town.
A replacement is fitted kerbside, matched to the one already fitted and balanced on the spot. Punctures are judged by where they sit: BS AU 159 covers holes in the middle of the tread, but a kerb gash in the sidewall falls outside it and means a new tyre. Bursts are handled the same way. When a locking nut's key has been lost, or its pattern has worn so the key no longer grips, the fitter extracts the nut. The line is open all night as well as at weekends.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in New Town
Drives, bays and car parks.
A kerbside bay is the usual working spot here. What makes it workable is space: the car straight rather than angled into a corner, and room on the damaged side for a jack and a kneeling fitter without either being in the road. A drive is better when there is one. If the street will not give that room, one of the town car parks will. Pavement parking, a car tightly boxed between others, and bays on a bend are all turned down.
With forty odd other places sharing the name, the LU1 postcode and house number are what identify the address, not the name on the street sign. Calls come from homes around Crescent Road and Hucklesby Way, from industrial units on the Flowers, Langley Terrace and Barratt Industrial Park estates, and from shoppers near Luton Retail Park. Where there is no drive, a street bay works if the car sits straight with the flat wheel clear of the traffic. If the road is too narrow for that, the public car parks at Vicarage Street, the Library Car Park and Power Court give the fitter enough space. Park Town and High Town are next door and handled on the same round.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in New Town.
Overnight in New Town, the call is usually someone heading out for an early shift who discovers one corner of the car sagging onto its rim at the kerb. Moving the car on a deflated tyre ruins it and risks the rim, so it is best left alone. Ring at any time with the address and size, and the fitter comes to the street.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Fast & efficient service, had me sorted within the hour!"
ANAliyah NawiGoogle review
New Town FAQs
Questions from New Town.
How does the fitter know which New Town I mean?
Through your postcode. Give the LU1 code and house number first, then the road. The name is shared with dozens of other places, but the postcode points to one street. In a car park, tell us which one and where in it the car is.
Can a tyre be changed with the car parked on the street?
That is the usual setup where a house has no drive. The car needs to sit straight in the space with room on the side of the failed tyre for the jack. If it is boxed in, rolling it a car length forward before the fitter arrives usually helps.
Is Power Court or the Library Car Park better than my road?
Either can be, if your street is narrow and the car can still be driven. Both are public car parks with bays wide enough to work in. Name the car park and the rough spot within it when you call.
Do you visit units on the nearby industrial estates?
Vans and cars at Flowers Industrial Estate, Langley Terrace and Barratt Industrial Park can be handled in their yards, as long as the site manager is content with a vehicle being jacked there. Give the unit number, registration and tyre size.
Nearby
Around New Town.
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Crescent Road, Power Court or a unit yard on Flowers Industrial Estate: wherever the car is, that is where the work happens.