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Old Coulsdon, Greater London · CR5
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Old Coulsdon.
Old Coulsdon stands on the hilltop where Greater London stops, reached by the B2030 Coulsdon Road and by Marlpit Lane rather than by any main road. Rescue Tyres drives the tyre up to the house.
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Tyre trouble in Old Coulsdon?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Old Coulsdon.
Height is the whole problem with a flat tyre up here. Every route out drops away: Coulsdon Road falls towards the valley, Marlpit Lane swings down to the west, and neither is a road to attempt on a tyre losing air. So the car stays where it is. Tell us what the tyre has done, read the string of numbers off its wall, and the matching one comes up the hill on the van. The commonest call from this postcode is a flat spotted on the drive when somebody is due out early.
| Postcode districts | CR5 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Coulsdon Road (B2030); Marlpit Lane (B276) |
| Nearest stations | Coulsdon South (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 7 (Hooley), about 2.0 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Ullswater Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 20 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Croydon |
What we do in Old Coulsdon
Tyre work in Old Coulsdon.
A CR5 address gets the whole job. New rubber is matched by reading the old tyre: its width, profile, load figure and speed letter, then supplied at budget, mid range or premium, taking in the four by four, SUV, van, EV and run flat sizes common up here. A tread puncture is examined off the wheel and mended to BS AU 159 where the damage allows. Anything blown or kerbed is renewed, the rim looked at with the wheel down. A locking nut with no key to its name still comes off. Wheel alignment is not work we take on.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Old Coulsdon
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway is the default up here and the best surface available: space to swing a wheel clear, no passing traffic and no time limit on it. Where a house has no drive, a level stretch of kerb on a residential road will serve, so long as the car is not nose down on a slope. The bowling club car park can take a vehicle already out, with whoever runs it content to allow the van in. What is out: the B2030 itself where it narrows, a soft verge, and any surface that gives under a jack.
Work here happens on driveways, in the roads around the Tesco up on Coulsdon Road, and along the lanes that run off Marlpit Lane towards Chaldon and Netherne-on-the-Hill. Those lanes have no footway in places and soft verges either side, so the car is better brought back to a hard surface before a jack goes under it. Gradient is the other consideration: several roads fall sharply, and the flattest section of a drive gets chosen before anything is lifted. There is no railway station in Old Coulsdon itself, Coulsdon South being over a mile down the hill, so households here run cars and notice a flat one immediately. Caterham on the Hill, Kenley and Whyteleafe are the near neighbours. CR5 sits within the ULEZ, as all of Greater London does, though a car sitting on its own drive is charged nothing for a wheel swap.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Old Coulsdon.
Night callers from up here are usually somebody who has found the tyre flat with an early start looming, or a driver home late who would rather not leave it until morning. Somebody picks up at any hour of the night, the total for the visit is worked out during that call, and a sensible time for the van to reach the hill is agreed with you rather than guessed.
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What drivers say.
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"Had two tyres replaced and was really impressed. Friendly and efficient, job completed quickly. Highly recommend!"
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Old Coulsdon FAQs
Questions from Old Coulsdon.
How far up the hill will you come in Old Coulsdon?
Anywhere in CR5, the lanes off Marlpit Lane and the roads out towards Chaldon included. The run from the Brent Cross base is a long one across London, so the arrival is planned with you when you call rather than left as a guess.
My tyre blew on the M23 near Hooley. Can you come out to me?
Not onto the motorway. A hard shoulder or an emergency area is never somewhere a van can stand and work. Leave at junction 7 for Hooley or junction 8 at Merstham, find a side road, and if it cannot be moved at all, dial 999 first and National Highways on 0300 123 5000 after.
Can you reach a house on one of the lanes towards Chaldon?
Those lanes are covered, though they run narrow with soft verges and no footway in places. The fitter will want the car back on a drive, or on some firm level ground, before a jack goes anywhere near it.
One tyre is flat on a car that has stood for weeks. Can it be repaired?
It depends on what is found once the tyre comes off the rim. A nail planted in the middle third of the tread, under 6 mm across, with the casing sound behind it, is patched and plugged to BS AU 159. A tyre that has sat squashed on its rim may have hurt the bead, which means a replacement.
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Around Old Coulsdon.
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Coulsdon Road, a lane towards Chaldon or a drive by the bowling club: the tyre arrives with the fitter.