★★★★★
"Fast and great service! Thanks for the Friday night rescue."
LBLewis BourneGoogle review
St James's, Greater London · SW1Y
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in St James's.
St James's is the wedge between Piccadilly and Regent Street St James's, a step from Piccadilly Circus and Green Park. Rescue Tyres comes out to SW1Y and fits the tyre where the vehicle is standing, any day of the week.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in St James's?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in St James's.
Cars in this district belong to offices, clubs and hotels, and most of them spend the working day waiting rather than moving. That is how a tyre problem gets found here. Somebody walks back to a car left standing since morning and sees a corner sitting low, or a wheel takes a screw on Piccadilly and loses its air overnight. Nothing about SW1Y makes it easy to drive that car anywhere afterwards, so the tyre is dealt with on the spot instead.
| Postcode districts | SW1Y, W1J, W1B |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Park Lane (A4202); Achilles Way (A4202); Duke of Wellington Place (A4); Bressenden Place (A302) |
| Nearest stations | Piccadilly Circus (London Underground), Leicester Square (London Underground), Charing Cross (London Underground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Brompton Cross District Shopping Centre., Grand Vitesse Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 6 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Westminster |
What we do in St James's
Tyre work in St James's.
What SW1Y asks for is mostly a new tyre in a size that has to be right first time, so the sidewall marking goes down on the call, load index and speed rating included. Tread punctures get proper treatment: the tyre comes off the rim, gets examined internally and is patch-plugged where BS AU 159 permits. A tyre wrecked by a kerb strike is replaced. Where a locking wheel nut has lost its key, it is wound off without marking the alloy. The line runs day and night, weekends included.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in St James's
Drives, bays and car parks.
A numbered space in the building's car park is the easiest job of the lot, off the road and with light to work by. A metered bay round the corner comes next, topped up to cover the time it takes. A courtyard or private forecourt behind an office suits a van very well. Piccadilly, Coventry Street and Regent Street are all out, and so is any bay on a bus route where the vehicle would have to stand out in the running lane.
Calls come from the streets running down between Piccadilly and the Green Park side, from the office buildings along Regent Street St James's, and from the busier corner where Coventry Street meets Piccadilly Circus. Nearly every car is either in a building's basement or on a metered bay, and both suit a fitter, provided the bay is paid up for the duration and the building expects a van. Piccadilly is another matter: it carries volume, and there is no point on it where a car can stand with a wheel off. Regent Street is the same. The whole wedge lies inside the ULEZ and the Congestion Charge zone, each of which charges movement and not a car up on a jack.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in St James's.
Evening work here follows the evening itself: a car collected after a function with a tyre gone soft on the bay, or a night porter ringing about a guest's vehicle. The call is taken at whatever time it comes, a photograph of the sidewall confirms the size, and the total is said out loud before anybody sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"After damaging my tyre on a pothole I found myself in an unfamiliar area. Within 20 minutes of calling Rescue Tyres they came to my rescue. Wholeheartedly recommend."
DSDaniella SaccoGoogle review
St James's FAQs
Questions from St James's.
Where can a tyre actually be changed in St James's?
In the building's basement car park if you hold a space in one, otherwise on a metered bay in a side street with enough paid time left on it to finish. Piccadilly and Regent Street are through roads and no use whatsoever for this.
Can you come out to a car waiting near Green Park?
That corner of SW1Y is on the round, as are the streets over towards Piccadilly Circus. Give the road name, the nearest building number and whether the car sits in a bay or a basement, and the time the fitter can reasonably be with you is agreed then.
Is a run-flat repairable once it has been driven on?
Rarely. Running a deflated run-flat loads its reinforced sidewall in a way the construction is not built for, and that damage does not show from outside. Where the casing has come through sound and the puncture sits in the tread, a repair is possible.
Does the building need to know the van is coming?
For a basement, always. Ramps carry barriers and a car park office controls them, so whoever is on the desk needs a name and a time. For a street bay nobody needs telling, only that the bay is paid for and has not been suspended.
Nearby
Around St James's.
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Piccadilly Circus, Green Park or a metered bay in SW1Y, and the tyre is changed at the car.