Mobile tyre fitting
in North Hinksey.

A fitter at your car
in North Hinksey.

The A34 does most of the damage around North Hinksey and none of the repairs. It is a National Highways trunk road whose traffic does not slow for a stopped car, so a tyre that lets go on it means carrying on to the Botley Interchange and stopping somewhere off the carriageway before you ring. When the car will not move, that is a matter for 999 or National Highways on 0300 123 5000 first, with recovery to safe ground after. A fitter then attends wherever it ended up.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A drive is the first choice, and nothing has to be driven to reach it. Kerbside serves on the quieter lanes where a fitter has room to stand on the offside and pass a wheel out. For anything wanting open tarmac, the long and short stay parking at Oxford station and the West Way Shopping Centre car park are both close, though each answers to its operator and should be cleared with them beforehand. The Botley Road and the A34 stay off limits regardless.

Away from the trunk road, North Hinksey is quiet ground: the village lanes, the houses running towards Botley, and the streets that back onto the A34. Almost all of it is OX2. The district here is Vale of White Horse, not the city, so the permit zones covering Oxford's inner streets never reach it, and most cars can be dealt with where they are parked. Oxford station is about a mile off, which is why some households leave a car here all day and only notice a soft tyre in the evening. Stopping on the Botley Road is the one thing to rule out; the village lanes are narrow but workable once the car is pulled well in. Binsey, Harcourt Hill and West Oxford fall on the same round.