★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
Queen's Park, Greater London, near Brent · NW6
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Queen's Park.
Queen's Park in Brent, NW6, is a grid of terraces around Salusbury Road, with its Underground and Overground station a street away from most of them. Rescue Tyres fits tyres at the kerb where the car already stands.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Queen's Park?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Queen's Park.
Almost nothing here has a driveway. The terraces run off Salusbury Road and Kilburn Lane in unbroken rows, so a car with a soft tyre stays in its resident bay and the wheel comes off there. Most of the damage arrives from elsewhere: a screw picked up on the A404 Harrow Road, a rim caught turning off Willesden Lane, a slow leak that only shows after a night parked up. Read out the size stamped on the sidewall before you ring off, and the tyre to match rides out in the van.
| Postcode districts | NW6, W10, W9 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Willesden Lane (A4003); Kilburn High Road (A5); Harrow Road (A404); Maida Vale (A5) |
| Nearest stations | Queen's Park (London Underground;London Overground), Kilburn Park (London Underground), Brondesbury Park (London Overground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Mitre Bridge Industrial Estate, Stable Way Industrial Estate, Gateway Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 3 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Brent |
What we do in Queen's Park
Tyre work in Queen's Park.
Replacement tyres are ordered against the code on the sidewall, which in NW6 often means a run-flat or a low profile size rather than something ordinary. Where a nail has found the middle band of the tread, the wheel is stripped, the casing examined from within and the hole sealed with a bonded patch and plug, as BS AU 159 demands. A tyre that has given up entirely is swapped, the rim inspected first. Where the locking key is long gone, the nuts come off the alloy unmarked. The line is answered through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Queen's Park
Drives, bays and car parks.
The bay outside the door does for most of it, and the car keeps its space while the wheel is off. A forecourt or a garage behind the terrace is better again, because the van can stand beside the car instead of in the road. A yard on one of the industrial estates suits a van, as long as whoever runs the site is expecting somebody. What does not work is the shopping stretch of Salusbury Road, where the loading bays turn over constantly, or either carriageway of the A5.
Callers are spread across the streets either side of Salusbury Road, along Harvist Road and Brondesbury Road on the B451, and down Carlton Vale towards Maida Hill. Parking is the whole story. This is resident bay territory from one end of the district to the other, with no public car park anywhere in it to retreat to, so the fitter works alongside the car in its own bay or on a side street where there is room to kneel clear of moving traffic. The A404 will not do, and neither will the A5, because both carry through traffic all day. Working vehicles ring in from the Gateway and Apex industrial estates over towards Kensal Town. The ULEZ operates here around the clock, and it bills vehicles that move, not ones on a jack.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Queen's Park.
Late calls out of Queen's Park tend to come from people who have parked up for the evening, walked out to the car at eleven and found one corner flat on the kerb. Somebody answers, the size is confirmed against your sidewall photograph, and the whole figure is settled before anyone sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Had a rapidly deflating tyre. Rang Rescue Tyres, they had it in stock and I was back on the road within an hour."
BRBradley ReeveGoogle review
Queen's Park FAQs
Questions from Queen's Park.
Is this the Queen's Park in London?
This page is the NW6 one, in Brent, between Kilburn Lane and Willesden Lane. The other Queen's Park in the country is nowhere near. Brent Cross, where the van is loaded, is a short run north of it.
My car is on a resident bay on Harvist Road. Can the wheel come off there?
That is where most of this district's work happens. The permit needs to match the zone and the bay must not be suspended. The fitter parks close, takes the wheel off on the pavement side, and the car never gives up its space.
If a tyre goes down on the Harrow Road, where should I pull in?
Turn off the A404 into the residential streets behind it, or carry on to Carlton Vale, and leave the car somewhere it can stand undisturbed with traffic well away from it. The main road itself gives nowhere safe for a jack.
Can you do a van standing on the Apex or Gateway industrial estate?
Commercial sizes come from the same source as car sizes, read off the code moulded into the sidewall. Say which estate, which unit, and whether the tyre still holds any pressure. The site itself must be willing to admit a fitting van.
Nearby
Around Queen's Park.
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Stuck in Queen's Park? Call now.
Salusbury Road, Harvist Road or the bay outside the house in NW6, the fitter comes to the car.