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"Life saver. Sudden puncture, hard-to-find tyre. They got back to me within 10 minutes and did a mobile tyre change."
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St James End, Northamptonshire, near Northampton · NN5 and NN1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in St James End.
St James End is the Northampton suburb that meets the town centre at West Bridge, with the A428 St James' Road running through it and Northampton station close at hand. Rescue Tyres comes to whichever kerb, yard or bay the car has stopped at.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in St James End?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in St James End.
Most tyre calls from St James End begin on the A428. St James' Road and West Bridge funnel traffic into the centre all day, and the industrial estates round about put screws, offcuts and pallet nails onto the tarmac. A tyre that collects one of those tends to hold some air until the car is parked outside a terrace or at work, and then it sags. Send the size moulded into the tyre and your road, and a matching tyre comes up with the fitter from north London.
| Postcode districts | NN5, NN1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Horse Market (A508); Horse Shoe Street (A508); Broad Street (A508); Saint John's Street (A508) |
| Nearest stations | Northampton (National Rail) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 15A (Rothersthorpe), about 2.5 miles away |
| Estates and parks nearby | Grafton Street Industrial Estate, Westgate Industrial Estate, Kings Heath Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 54 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Northampton |
What we do in St James End
Tyre work in St James End.
The work splits into four kinds of job. A screw or nail lodged in the tread is dealt with from inside: the tyre comes off, gets inspected, and receives a patch-plug to BS AU 159 wherever the hole lies within the repairable zone. A tyre past help is swapped for a new one matching its size and rating. After a blowout the replacement goes on once the rim has been checked for cracks or dents. Lost the key to the locking nuts? Proper extraction tools take them off regardless.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in St James End
Drives, bays and car parks.
St James Retail Park gives the most room, and a bay at the outer edge of it works well provided the car park management are content. Marefair Car Park and Commercial Street Car Park are open surface car parks close by. The Mayorhold Multi Storey is less suitable, since ramps and tight decks make jacking awkward. On the estates, a yard at Westgate or Kings Heath is ideal with the site's say-so. A terraced street works too, given a legal space and a clear side to kneel on.
Callers here are split three ways. There are the terraced streets either side of St James' Road and across into Spencer, where the car sits at the kerb outside the house. There are the units on the Westgate and Grafton Street industrial estates, where a van goes soft in the yard. And there are commuters who come back to Northampton station to find a flat. The parent hub record notes permit schemes and bus-lane cameras around the centre and the station, so a car left on a bay there should be mentioned when you ring. The A508 streets through the centre, Bridge Street and Horse Shoe Street among them, take a steady stream of through traffic and nobody lifts a car there. Northampton runs no clean-air zone, so nothing is charged for the visit either way.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in St James End.
Late arrivals at Northampton station are the classic night call from St James End, along with drivers finishing a shift on the Westgate estate to find the car on its rim. The phone gets answered whatever the time, and the full figure for tyre and visit is spelt out before the van leaves.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Great service, fixed my punctured tyre quickly and the best prices for mobile repairs."
AAmirGoogle review
St James End FAQs
Questions from St James End.
A tyre blew on the M1 close to junction 15A. Will a fitter come to me on the motorway?
Not onto the motorway. Our fitters never set up on a hard shoulder, a slip road or in an emergency refuge. If the car will still move, leave at junction 15A for Rothersthorpe and make for the retail units near Sixfields Stadium. Stranded or unsafe, dial 999 or National Highways on 0300 123 5000, then ring us once recovered.
Is the Northampton station car park somewhere you can change a tyre?
That car park belongs to the railway, so whether a fitter can work there is the operator's call. For someone happy to drive a short distance on a slow leak, St James Retail Park or Marefair Car Park is often simpler. Say which of those you have pulled into.
Do you come onto the Westgate Industrial Estate for vans?
Vans on that estate are covered, and a unit yard makes a good, level place to work. Send the unit number, the registration plate and the complete size from the tyre wall, load index included, and let whoever runs the site know a tyre van will be arriving.
My car is parked on a St James End terrace with no drive. Is that a problem?
Not usually. A legally parked car at the kerb on a residential street can have its wheel changed where it stands, provided the fitter can kneel on the road side in safety. A car on a bend or double parked would need moving first.
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Around St James End.
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West Bridge, St James Retail Park or a side street in Spencer, the tyre is fitted wherever the car sits.