★★★★★
"Arrived and was very kind and polite. Reassured me about changing the tyres and was quick and attentive straight away."
EBEliza BarclayGoogle review
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire · SN6
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Shrivenham.
Shrivenham strings itself along the B4000, High Street into Townsend Road and out on the Highworth Road, an Oxfordshire village carrying an SN6 postcode. Rescue Tyres comes out with a matching tyre and everything needed to fit it.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in Shrivenham?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Shrivenham.
A village this size has no tyre shop of its own, so a flat here usually means deciding whether the car is safe to take somewhere else. Often it is not, which is exactly what a mobile fitter is for. Most damage gets picked up on the B4000 or the lanes towards Watchfield and Bourton: something small in the tread, a slow loss overnight, a tyre down on the drive by morning. Read out the size and the SN6 postcode.
| Postcode districts | SN6 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | High Street (B4000); Townsend Road (B4000); Station Road (B4000); Highworth Road (B4000) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, Sevenhampton Wastewater Treatment Works |
| Distance from our base | about 62 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Witney |
What we do in Shrivenham
Tyre work in Shrivenham.
Both replacement and repair happen at the vehicle. A fresh tyre comes out matched to the code on the sidewall, then spun up and balanced before the wheel goes back. A tread puncture gets the proper job: the casing opened, checked from within and sealed to BS AU 159. Where a tyre has given out completely it is swapped and the rim studied for damage. Where a locking nut sits with no key anywhere in the car, it comes off and a plain nut takes its place. Night and weekend callouts are taken the same as daytime ones.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Shrivenham
Drives, bays and car parks.
A driveway is the working surface here and nearly every address has one. Otherwise a yard or hardstanding at the business park takes a van, once the unit holder knows a jack is going under a vehicle on their land. Parking at the Memorial Hall belongs to the hall rather than the public, so check before assuming it. The edge of the B4000 through the village is out of the question: no room, and traffic passing close to anybody kneeling at a wheel.
Calls come from the houses along High Street and Townsend Road, from roads set back off Station Road, from Watchfield a mile away, and from vehicles working at Shrivenham Hundred Business Park. Two practical things shape a job here. The village keeps almost no public parking: the Memorial Hall has ground of its own, but that belongs to the hall and is worth asking about rather than assuming. And the B4000 is the road the village is built along, which rules it out as somewhere to jack a car, least of all on the Highworth Road stretch. The answer in both cases is a drive, and most SN6 addresses have one. The Vale of White Horse carries no clean-air charging of any kind, so nothing is payable for having a wheel taken off.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Shrivenham.
The late calls in SN6 come from people finishing shifts and from drivers back off the Highworth Road who felt the steering go heavy on the last mile home. The line is answered whatever the hour. The size, the address and the price are all settled on that same call, and then the van gets loaded and sets out.
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
Shrivenham FAQs
Questions from Shrivenham.
Shrivenham has an SN6 postcode but sits in Oxfordshire. Is it covered?
SN6 is on the round, along with Watchfield, Bourton and the lanes between them. Coverage follows geography, not which sorting district a postcode answers to. Ring or WhatsApp 07473 720871; a realistic arrival time gets settled with you before the call ends.
Can a tyre be changed at Shrivenham Hundred Business Park?
A unit's own hardstanding makes a decent place to work, with space all round the vehicle and solid footing for the jack. What it needs first is the site agreeing to it. Name the unit and read out the sidewall size, and the correct tyre travels out.
Does an older car pay any clean air charge around Shrivenham?
Nothing of the kind operates here. On this patch the charging zones are London, the ground inside the Birmingham ring road, and a short list of central Oxford streets. None of it touches the Vale of White Horse, and a parked car being worked on pays nothing anywhere.
The tyre is flat on the drive. Does the car need moving first?
Leave it precisely where it stands. Running a car on a deflated tyre, even down to the end of the road, can destroy the casing and turn what would have been a repair into a purchase. The wheel comes off on the drive, the tyre is inspected off the rim, then refitted and balanced.
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Around Shrivenham.
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High Street, Townsend Road and Shrivenham Hundred Business Park: a wheel changed where the car stopped.