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Selsdon, Greater London · CR2 and CR0
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Selsdon.
Selsdon has no railway station of its own, so the A2022 does the work: Addington Road one way, Selsdon Park Road the other. When a tyre gives out between the parade and the house, Rescue Tyres drives to the car instead.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Selsdon?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Selsdon.
Everything up here is done by road, and tyres wear accordingly. Addington Road and Selsdon Park Road are the two most driven stretches in CR2, with Upper Selsdon Road dropping away towards Croydon and Gravel Hill taking the rest of the traffic down to the tram. The two calls that come in most often are a kerbed sidewall from a tight turn and a slow loss from something picked up on the A2022. Houses in this part of the borough mostly have their own drives, which makes the rest straightforward.
| Postcode districts | CR2, CR0 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Addington Road (A2022); Selsdon Park Road (A2022); Gravel Hill (A212); Coombe Lane (A212) |
| Nearest stations | Gravel Hill (London Trams), Coombe Lane (London Trams), Addington Village (London Trams) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Twin Bridges Business Park |
| Distance from our base | about 18 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Croydon |
What we do in Selsdon
Tyre work in Selsdon.
Selsdon jobs run from a single replacement on a car whose tread has gone below the legal limit to an emergency change after something blew on the A212. Punctures are assessed against BS AU 159 and repaired from the inside when the damage falls within the tread area and the limit. Locking wheel nuts that have rounded off, a common outcome on the steeper roads around here, are removed before the replacement goes on. New tyres are ordered to the car's own size in budget, mid-range and premium, and callouts run through the night.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Selsdon
Drives, bays and car parks.
The best surface in Selsdon is usually the household drive, and there is more of that here than in the streets nearer the town centre. Verges are not an option: soft ground and a jack do not mix. The quieter roads towards Forestdale and Farleigh take kerbside work well, since through traffic is light. On Addington Road and Selsdon Park Road the fitter would rather you turned off into a side road, both for the traffic and for the room.
Most Selsdon addresses give the fitter something proper to stand on, which is not true of every London district. Off Upper Selsdon Road and on the streets running back towards Sanderstead, a drive will often take the van as well as the car. Around the shopping parade the bays are time limited and busy, so a flat car is better moved onto a residential turning if it will still roll. The Aldi, Sainsbury's and Co-op car parks belong to the stores and none of them is ours to use without asking. Heathfield Car Park and the Selsdon Park Hotel grounds are the same. The tram stops at Gravel Hill and Coombe Lane are outside the district proper, and the parking around them is residential street parking. The ULEZ takes in Selsdon just as it does all of Greater London, and a stationary car being fitted attracts nothing.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Selsdon.
Calls after dark in Selsdon tend to come from people who got home from the A2022 on a tyre that was already going soft and found it flat on the drive at bedtime. The phone and WhatsApp are answered around the clock and the cost is settled before the van moves.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Good and fast service."
BWBaruch WiesenbergGoogle review
Selsdon FAQs
Questions from Selsdon.
Is there anywhere in Selsdon you cannot fit a tyre?
Shop car parks along the parade and the hotel grounds are private property, and a grass verge is never safe under a jack. Anything else, a drive, a quiet residential kerb or a turning off Selsdon Park Road, is fine once we know the size.
How does it work if my car is at Gravel Hill tram stop?
Street parking around Gravel Hill is residential rather than a car park, so give us the road name and where the car sits on it. Given clear ground at the flat wheel, the new tyre goes on there and you carry on up the hill.
Can a puncture be repaired instead of replacing the tyre?
Where the damage sits decides it. Something that has gone through the tread band, smaller than six millimetres, can be repaired to BS AU 159 from inside the tyre. A sidewall cut from a Selsdon kerb cannot, and no honest fitter would patch one.
Do you come out to Farleigh and Hamsey Green as well?
Those lanes on the edge of CR2 are covered from the same base at Brent Cross, along with Sanderstead and Forestdale. The further out the address, the more useful it is to give a postcode and a landmark when you call or message.
Nearby
Around Selsdon.
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Addington Road, the Selsdon parade or a drive off Upper Selsdon Road: your tyres are fitted at the car.