"Quick, helpful and very understanding of our situation."
Mobile tyre fitting
in Park Street.
Park Street is a village, a main road and a railway station all at once, strung along the A5183 Watling Street near the A414 roundabout. Rescue Tyres fits and repairs tyres wherever the car has stopped.
A fitter at your car
in Park Street.
The first thing to settle on a call from here is which Park Street is meant. The village, the road through it and the station share the name, and a car with a flat can be at any of the three. After that it is simple. The A5183 and the Park Street roundabout deliver most of the damage, debris and kerb strikes off traffic that is only passing through, while the AL2 drives either side take most of the repairs. Quote the postcode and whatever is stamped round the tyre.
| Postcode districts | AL2 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | North Orbital Road (A405); Park Street Roundabout (A414); Park Street (A5183); Frogmore (A5183) |
| Nearest stations | Park Street (National Rail), How Wood (National Rail), Bricket Wood (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 21A (Bricket Wood), about 1.3 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Verulam Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 11 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in St Albans |
Tyre work in Park Street.
Sourcing covers the full spread: budget casings, mid-range and premium, all matched to the size the car wants. Run-flat is routine. So are 4x4 and SUV covers, van and EV sizes, performance, winter and all-season. Past that, a tread puncture gets mended to BS AU 159 once the tyre has been lifted off and looked over, a burst is swapped with the rim checked, and a locking nut is shifted when nobody has its key. New tyres carry the manufacturer's warranty. Cover runs every day and through every night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive is the surface of choice and most AL2 houses have one, flat and clear of the traffic on Watling Street. A hard standing or a shared parking area does the job equally well as long as nobody ends up blocked in. Verulam Industrial Estate has yards for a van. The two station car parks are the operator's to lend, so they want a word first. The A5183 itself, the North Orbital Road and the roundabout approaches are all out, with nowhere safe to jack a car.
Calls land from the houses along Watling Street and Radlett Road, from Frogmore just down the road, and from the streets back towards Colney Street and Napsbury Park. The roundabout where the A414 meets the A5183 is the busiest thing near the village and no place to stop with a soft tyre; come off it into a residential road first. Park Street station and How Wood station both sit within half a mile, and the car parks at each are railway ground, so a bay there is worked in by arrangement rather than by right. No car park here is open to the public, which makes a drive the usual working surface.

24 hours in Park Street.
The night calls in Park Street tend to come off the main road. Somebody driving Watling Street late hits something, gets into a side road and rings; somebody else finds a flat while the house is asleep and wants it right for the first train. The call is taken, and you hear what the job costs before agreeing to it.
What drivers say.
"I called out for a mobile repair. The service was quick and quite reasonably priced. Would recommend."
Questions from Park Street.
Do you mean the village or the road when you ask where the car is in Park Street?
Can the tyre be changed at Park Street station while I am in London?
A tyre let go on the A414 by the Park Street roundabout. Where should I go?
What sort of tyres do you carry for a van or an electric car?
Around Park Street.
Stuck in Park Street? Call now.
From the Park Street roundabout to Radlett Road and Frogmore, the tyre travels to wherever the car stopped.
