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Mobile tyre fitting
in Pype Hayes.
Pype Hayes is the housing off the A452 Chester Road around Pype Hayes Park, on the border between Erdington and Walmley. Rescue Tyres fits replacements and mends punctures outside the house, or wherever the car has ended up.
A fitter at your car
in Pype Hayes.
Most tyre trouble in Pype Hayes shows up on the drive rather than the road. A car is left overnight after the school run or the commute along Chester Road, and in the morning one corner is sitting low. Sometimes it is a nail picked up on Eachelhurst Road, sometimes a valve that has started to seep. Either way, leave the car where it sits. Send the size from the sidewall plus your postcode, and the fitter brings a new tyre or repairs the old one on the spot.
| Postcode districts | B24, B76 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Chester Road (A452); Kingsbury Road (A38); Tyburn House Island (A38;A452); Sutton Road (A5127) |
| Nearest stations | Chester Road (National Rail), Erdington (National Rail), Wylde Green (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 5 (Castle Bromwich Interchange), about 1.6 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Ravenside Retail Park, The Fort Shopping Park, Erdington Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 94 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Erdington |
Tyre work in Pype Hayes.
The work here is mostly domestic: a family car needing a replacement in its own size, a nail pulled from a tread, a tyre that shredded on the way home. Repairs are carried out from inside the tyre with it off the rim, and only where the hole sits in the section of tread BS AU 159 permits mending; a sidewall hole means a new tyre. If the locking nut key has vanished into a glovebox somewhere, the nut is removed and the wheel comes off as normal. Nights and weekends are covered by the callout line.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway comes first, and a quiet avenue with the car square to the kerb is a close second. The Pype Hayes Park car park makes a good rendezvous for a car that still drives, when home is further off. The Sainsbury's and Aldi car parks nearby are short stay and busy, useful only when there is nothing better. The kerb of Chester Road and the approach to Tyburn House Island cannot be used for work.
People ring from the avenues either side of the park, from the Chester Road frontage, and from the edge where the houses run on towards Walmley and Pitts Farm. Postcodes change across the patch, B24 on the Erdington side and B76 nearer Walmley, so the whole postcode is more use than the district name. Many houses have a drive or a front hardstanding, and that is where most jobs happen. Chester Road itself is the constraint: it is a trunk road with heavy traffic, and a car stopped on it is not somewhere a fitter can safely kneel. Tyburn Road and Penns Lane are busier than the side streets too. Nothing here falls in the Birmingham Clean Air Zone, which begins miles away at the Middleway.

24 hours in Pype Hayes.
Late calls from Pype Hayes tend to be residents coming home along Chester Road with a tyre going soft, or somebody discovering a flat as they leave for an early shift. There is an answer round the clock, your tyre size is double checked as you read it out, and the figure is settled between you before the van leaves.
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!"
Questions from Pype Hayes.
Can you work on my car in the Pype Hayes Park car park?
Is Pype Hayes in B24 or B76?
My tyre went flat on the drive overnight. Can it be mended?
Do you charge anything before coming out to Pype Hayes?
Around Pype Hayes.
Stuck in Pype Hayes? Call now.
Pype Hayes Park, Chester Road or your own drive in B24 or B76, the fitter comes to the car.
