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Mobile tyre fitting
in Shenley.
Shenley in Hertfordshire is a B road village: London Road, Black Lion Hill and Woodhall Lane are the same B5378 under three names. Rescue Tyres arrives in WD7 carrying the tyre and the kit to put it on.
A fitter at your car
in Shenley.
Shenley sits in Hertsmere, with Radlett down one way and Ridge across the fields the other. Tyres here collect their damage on lanes rather than on trunk roads: the B5378 comes through the village as London Road and leaves it as Green Street, while Woodhall Lane and Black Lion Hill do the rest. The nearest motorway is the M25 at The Bell, under two miles off. Tell the fitter the postcode and read out the sidewall markings, so the right tyre is already in the van.
| Postcode districts | WD7 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Shenleybury (B5378); London Road (B5378); Black Lion Hill (B5378); Woodhall Lane (B5378) |
| Nearest stations | Radlett (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 22 (The Bell), about 1.7 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Colney Fields Shopping Park |
| Distance from our base | about 8 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Borehamwood |
Tyre work in Shenley.
Village work arrives in ones and twos rather than in a rush. A tyre is ordered to the size on the old cover and fitted at the house. A tread puncture gets dismounted and looked at from within, and BS AU 159 rules on whether a patch and plug is allowed. A tyre destroyed by a kerb, or by being run flat, is replaced while the rim is checked over. Locking nuts surrender to an extractor, with a standard nut going on in place of each. Calls are taken overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Drives, bays and car parks.
Off-street parking is the rule here and it makes for uncomplicated jobs: level ground, room to swing a wheel off, nothing going past. A private yard answers equally well where the owner agrees to it. For a car driven in from further afield, Colney Fields Shopping Park is the nearest large surface car park. What will not do is the B5378 itself where it narrows down, and any spot on the lane up to Shenleybury where a van would block the road completely.
Calls come from the village and from the hamlets ringing it: Shenleybury just up the B5378, Harperbury Park beyond it, Ridge and South Mimms out across the fields. These are houses and small closes, almost all with off-street parking, and a drive is where the great majority of this work is done. Shenley has no public car park, so nobody is being asked to sit in the middle of the village and wait: if the car still rolls, Colney Fields Shopping Park towards the M25 has open surface bays. Black Lion Hill and the pinched part of Woodhall Lane give a jack nowhere to stand, and the Tesco Express frontage is no better. No clean air charge of any sort reaches into Hertfordshire.

24 hours in Shenley.
A night call from Shenley is usually one of two things: somebody back from the M25 who has nursed a tyre home along the B5378, or a household that has to be on the road early and has found the car sitting flat. Whatever the hour, somebody answers 07473 720871, and a village drive is easy enough to work on under lights.
What drivers say.
"Nice guy and fast service. Perfect installation."
Questions from Shenley.
Which Shenley is this?
There is no car park in Shenley. Where does the work happen?
Can a puncture picked up on the lanes be repaired instead of replaced?
How late can somebody come out to Shenley?
Around Shenley.
Stuck in Shenley? Call now.
London Road, Woodhall Lane or a drive at Shenleybury: the van and the tyre come to you.
