★★★★★
"Faultless experience. Great communication, attitude and service."
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Rotherhithe, Greater London · SE16
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Rotherhithe.
Rotherhithe sits inside a bend of the river in SE16, reached by Lower Road, Jamaica Road or the old tunnel under the water. Rescue Tyres brings the tyre to wherever the car is parked.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Rotherhithe?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Rotherhithe.
Getting a car out of Rotherhithe on a bad tyre is harder than it looks. Everything funnels onto Lower Road or the A200 at Jamaica Road, and the Rotherhithe Tunnel is narrow and no place to have trouble. It is simpler to let the car stay put and have the tyre delivered to it. Most calls from SE16 are a puncture found on a permit bay in the morning, or a wheel kerbed on one of the tighter turnings off Rotherhithe Old Road.
| Postcode districts | SE16 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | The Highway (A1203); Limehouse Link (A1203); Butcher Row (A1203); Lower Road (A200) |
| Nearest stations | Rotherhithe (London Overground), Canada Water (London Underground;London Overground), Surrey Quays (London Overground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Southernwood Retail Park, New Cross Gate Retail Park, Anchor Retail Park |
| Distance from our base | about 9 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Southwark |
What we do in Rotherhithe
Tyre work in Rotherhithe.
Rotherhithe calls are mostly punctures and kerb damage rather than blowouts. Where the hole sits in the tread and is small enough for BS AU 159, the tyre is broken off the wheel and patched internally, which is the only sort of repair worth paying for. A cut sidewall, or one that has been run flat, gets a fresh tyre in the size the car carries, balanced, with the old one carried away. Where a locking key has gone astray, that nut is removed too.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Rotherhithe
Drives, bays and car parks.
The best surface in Rotherhithe is usually the bay the car already occupies, since permit bays here are proper marked rectangles with a kerb behind them. Basement and podium parking under the newer blocks around Canada Water serves as well, provided somebody can let a van in. A supermarket car park is the fallback where the car is still mobile. What the fitter will not use is the A200, the tunnel mouth, or the narrow turnings where a jack would block the road entirely.
The busiest part for us is the ring of housing around Canada Water and Surrey Quays, where much of the parking is in marked bays or under the buildings, and the streets off Hawkstone Road and Rotherhithe New Road behind it. Southwark controls most of the kerb space, so a car usually has a permit bay of its own, and that is a perfectly good place to work. A large supermarket car park near Surrey Quays has space enough when the car is fit to be driven that far. Off limits: Lower Road and Jamaica Road themselves, and the tunnel approach, where stopping would leave a jacked car in the traffic. SE16 lies inside the ULEZ, which bites on driving, not on parking.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Rotherhithe.
Night calls out of SE16 come from people working unsociable shifts and from drivers who have just come up out of the tunnel to find a tyre soft. The phone is answered in the small hours exactly as it is at midday, and the cost of the job is agreed before anyone leaves.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Had an issue with my tyre and they fixed it in 10 minutes! Very good service and not expensive."
ISIrina SGoogle review
Rotherhithe FAQs
Questions from Rotherhithe.
Can you fit a tyre in a Southwark permit bay in Rotherhithe?
Permit bays are where most of this work is done in SE16. The car stays in its own bay while the fitter kneels at the kerb side of it. Nothing needs suspending or moving, as long as the bay is yours and there is room to open the boot.
Is it safe to drive to you through the Rotherhithe Tunnel on a flat?
Better not to. The tunnel is narrow, there is nowhere to pull in, and a flat tyre can shred and take the rim with it. Stay on the Rotherhithe side, leave it somewhere nothing is passing close, and the fitter comes to you there.
Do you cover Canada Water and Surrey Quays?
Both, along with the streets towards Bermondsey and the estates off Rotherhithe New Road. Give the postcode, say whether the car is in a bay, under a block or in a supermarket car park, and explain how a van reaches it.
How long can a slow puncture be left?
Not long. A tyre running under pressure heats up and wears its own inner walls away, so what began as a repairable nail hole turns into a scrapped tyre. Check the pressure, and if it keeps dropping, ring before the next drive.
Nearby
Around Rotherhithe.
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Canada Water, a Lower Road permit bay, a Surrey Quays car park: the fitter travels out to you.