★★★★★
"Fast and reliable."
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Pitstone, Buckinghamshire · LU7
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Pitstone.
Pitstone answers to two postcode districts, LU7 and HP23, with the B489 through the middle of it and the Upper Icknield Way along its edge. The tyre, the jack and the fitter arrive wherever the car has been left.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Pitstone?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Pitstone.
The giveaway in Pitstone is usually a warning light rather than a bang. A flint or a piece of grit off the Icknield Way works through the tread over several days, and the tyre is soft on the drive one morning. High Street and Church Road, both the B489, carry the traffic that brings the rest. Nothing here is close to a tyre depot, which is the whole point of a mobile fit: quote the size off the tyre wall with the postcode and the work happens on the spot.
| Postcode districts | LU7, HP23 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Upper Icknield Way (B488); Church Road (B489); Marsworth Road (B489); High Street (B489) |
| Distance from our base | about 24 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Tring |
What we do in Pitstone
Tyre work in Pitstone.
Out here a tyre has to arrive with the fitter, so the size, load rating and speed rating get taken first and the correct one is aboard before anyone leaves. Tread punctures are mended to BS AU 159, the tyre first taken off its rim and checked over inside. A blowout takes a replacement, the rim looked at as it goes. A locking nut lacking its key yields to a proper extractor. The line is open seven days and right through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Pitstone
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive is the surface that works, and most of them here are tarmac or gravel with space to swing a wheel off. A farm yard or a hard standing does the same job for anyone on a lane. The car park at Pitstone Hill belongs to whoever manages that land and serves people out walking rather than the village, so it is not the place for this. Nor are the verges on the B489 and the Icknield Way: soft, narrow and close enough to passing traffic to rule out.
Addresses here fall either side of a line: part of Pitstone is LU7, the rest HP23, and a driver ringing from the village often does not know which one the house uses. Say the full postcode and the road and it stops mattering. The newer roads off High Street and Church Road produce a lot of the calls, as do Ford End and Great Gap, with Ivinghoe Aston, Cheddington and Marsworth a little further out. Homes have drives, and that is where nearly all the work gets done. There is no village car park in the ordinary sense, and Pitstone Hill is walkers' ground out on the edge, no use for jacking a car up.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Pitstone.
Very little moves in Pitstone after dark, so a night call is usually somebody just home from Tring or Leighton Buzzard who heard the tyre going down on the way in, or a driver facing an early start. Whatever hour it rings, the line is staffed, and the price gets fixed on that call.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Good communication, excellent work and takes the initiative. Happy to go the extra mile, highly recommended if you're in a tyre-related bit of bother!"
DFDavid FordhamGoogle review
Pitstone FAQs
Questions from Pitstone.
My address is LU7 but I am told Pitstone is HP23. Which do you need?
Whichever one the post uses, because both are real here and the village straddles the pair of them. The postcode with the road name puts the van at the right gate. If the house sits on a lane with no number, describing the car and where it stands helps more.
Is there anywhere in Pitstone to meet a fitter if I cannot get home?
Not a public car park, no. What works instead is a yard, a wide private hard standing or a drive belonging to somebody who does not mind. Say where the car actually is when you ring and the fitter will tell you whether there is room to work there.
Can you reach Ivinghoe Aston, Marsworth and Cheddington on the same round?
Those villages sit within a couple of miles of Pitstone and go on the same run, along with Cooks Wharf, Bulbourne and New Mill. Lanes are no obstacle to the van. What matters at the far end is ground firm enough to take a jack safely.
The warning light came on days ago and the tyre still looks fine. Is it repairable?
Often it is. A slow loss usually means something small in the tread, and if it sits in the central band and is within the limit BS AU 159 sets, the tyre comes off, gets inspected inside and is mended properly rather than plugged from outside.
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Around Pitstone.
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Church Road, the Icknield Way or a drive out at Ford End: the tyre comes to you.