★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
Rayners Lane, Greater London · HA2 and HA5
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Rayners Lane.
Rayners Lane is a parade and a station where Alexandra Avenue and Imperial Drive cross, with rows of semis running off both. Rescue Tyres arrives carrying the tyre and the kit, and the wheel gets sorted out where the car is standing.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Rayners Lane?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Rayners Lane.
There is little through traffic in Rayners Lane, which changes what goes wrong with tyres. Instead of trunk road debris it is the slow stuff: a screw picked up on Alexandra Avenue that takes a week to show, a perished valve on a car that has been left standing, a wheel scraped reversing into a narrow drive. These are driveway jobs, and drives are what this district has. The postcode and the sidewall size are all it takes to get the right tyre moving.
| Postcode districts | HA2, HA5 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Alexandra Avenue (A4090); Imperial Drive (A4090); Station Road (A4090) |
| Nearest stations | Rayners Lane (London Underground), North Harrow (London Underground), West Harrow (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Victoria Retail park, Brook Retail Park, Braintree Road Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 6 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Harrow |
What we do in Rayners Lane
Tyre work in Rayners Lane.
Most of what happens in Rayners Lane is a repair or a straight replacement done on a driveway. Punctures in the tread get the tyre dismounted so the inside can be seen, then a combined patch and plug under BS AU 159 when the injury qualifies. Anything torn, bulged or run flat is replaced instead. New tyres are matched to the markings on the car, and the van balances each wheel before it is bolted back up. A key that vanished years ago does not stop the locking nut coming off. The line is open through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Rayners Lane
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives do the bulk of it, and the semis off Imperial Drive nearly all have one. Where a flat above the parade means no drive, the residential roads behind it are wide enough to work on with the car pulled in straight. Cambridge Road Car Park is the public option. Estate yards suit anything on commercial sizes, once the site is expecting a van. The parade itself, with its bus stops and its loading, is the spot to move away from.
The district splits between HA2 and HA5, roughly on the Eastcote side, and an address can sit in either, so start with the postcode. Most of the work comes off the residential roads flanking Imperial Drive and Alexandra Avenue, with a little from Waverley Industrial Park and the units over towards Braintree Road. The A4090 is the only road of any size, and around the station it is lined with bays and busy with buses, which makes it the one stretch not to stop on. Cambridge Road Car Park is genuine public parking and a fair place to meet if the car will still drive. The ULEZ reaches every London borough, this one included, and says nothing at all about a car that is stationary.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Rayners Lane.
Overnight in Rayners Lane it is usually somebody with an early flight or an early shift who has come out to the drive and found a tyre down. The phone gets answered whatever time that is, the size is checked against your sidewall during the call, and the figure for the work is agreed before anybody leaves.
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
Rayners Lane FAQs
Questions from Rayners Lane.
Can a tyre be changed at Cambridge Road Car Park?
That car park is public and roomy enough for the job, which makes it a fair meeting point if the car will still drive. Pull up away from the entrance, say which row the car is sitting in, and the work is done there.
Which postcode covers Rayners Lane?
Both HA2 and HA5 do, and the boundary runs through the district rather than round it. Give the postcode exactly as it appears on your post, with the house number, and the fitter knows at once which end of the station to head for.
Can you balance a wheel at the roadside?
Balancing gear rides on the van, so a new tyre is fitted, weighted and checked without the wheel ever leaving your street. Nothing is taken away and brought back later on. The old casing goes off with the fitter for disposal.
Is a tyre with a bulge in it safe to drive to somewhere easier?
A bulge says the casing has failed internally and it can let go without warning, so that tyre should not be driven on at all. Leave the car where it is, fit the spare if there is one, and ring 07473 720871.
Nearby
Around Rayners Lane.
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Alexandra Avenue, Imperial Drive or a drive in HA5: the fitter comes out to the car.