★★★★★
"I urgently needed to replace my tyres and the team were prompt, friendly and efficient at a great price."
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St John Street area, Oxfordshire · OX1 and OX2
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in St John Street area.
The St John Street area is central Oxford, OX1, a step off Beaumont Street and St Giles' with Gloucester Green Car Park round the corner. Rescue Tyres reaches the car in place and changes the wheel there.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off
Tyre trouble in St John Street area?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in St John Street area.
Getting a damaged wheel out of the middle of Oxford is harder than getting a fitter into it. Bus gates close several routes through the centre to general traffic, so a car with a tyre going down can end up taking a long way round for no good reason. It need not move at all. Tell us the street, whether the car occupies a resident bay, a pay-and-display space or a college frontage, and read us the sidewall size, and the tyre travels to it.
| Postcode districts | OX1, OX2 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Beaumont Street (A4144); St Giles' (A4165); Worcester Street (A4144); Hythe Bridge Street (A4144) |
| Nearest stations | Oxford (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Botley Road Retail Park, Seacourt Retail Park, West Way Shopping Centre |
| Distance from our base | about 46 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Oxford |
What we do in St John Street area
Tyre work in St John Street area.
Central Oxford jobs are typically a single wheel. The tyre comes off the rim, the puncture is located and inspected, and a tread repair is made to BS AU 159 if it falls within what the standard permits. If it does not, a matching tyre in your size goes on instead, balanced and torqued on site. Burst and shredded tyres mean a replacement, the rim looked over before that. A locking nut comes away where its key has been lost. The line runs overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in St John Street area
Drives, bays and car parks.
Gloucester Green Car Park is the main answer here, being close, public and possessed of the flat ground and elbow room a jack and a torque wrench want. Worcester Street Car Park does the same job. A resident bay along one of the smaller streets is workable when clear space sits beside the car. A private frontage or a college car park is fine where whoever runs it will let a fitter in. Beaumont Street, Worcester Street and Hythe Bridge Street themselves are not surfaces to be working on.
The addresses around St John Street, Beaumont Street and Worcester Street are almost all controlled parking, and a good deal of the kerb space belongs either to permit holders or to the buildings behind it. That is the first thing to settle on the call. Gloucester Green Car Park is the obvious working surface for anything that can be driven a short distance, with Worcester Street Car Park the other. The A4144 through Beaumont Street and Worcester Street, and the A420 out along Hollybush Row and Oxpens Road, carry the through traffic and are no use to a fitter. Oxford station is a walk away, which makes the station car parks a realistic meeting point for a commuter who came back to a flat.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in St John Street area.
The late ring from this end of OX1 tends to come from somebody walking back to a parked car and finding it down on the rim, or a driver facing an early start out of Oxford station. The call gets answered whatever the hour, and the figure covering both tyre and callout is settled before you hang up.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Excellent service from start to finish. He came out quickly to help my mum change her tyre and was extremely friendly."
EHEllie-Mai HalesGoogle review
St John Street area FAQs
Questions from St John Street area.
Does the Zero Emission Zone keep a fitter from my car?
The Oxford zone runs on a small number of central streets, most of them already restricted to buses or shut to traffic, and it charges vehicles being driven through. A stationary car with a wheel off sits outside all of that, and there is nearly always a legal way in.
Can a tyre be changed at Gloucester Green Car Park?
That car park suits the work well: flat, public and open enough to get a wheel off safely. Park clear of the ramps and barriers, send the level and bay along with the tyre size, and keep your ticket running while the job is done.
My car is on a resident bay off St John Street. Does it need moving?
Leaving it where it stands is the usual answer. The fitter needs the bay type and whether anything is parked hard up against your bumpers. If the space really is too tight, a short move to Gloucester Green is the simpler option of the two.
Do you cover the college car parks in the centre?
College and institutional grounds are reachable when whoever runs them expects a fitter, which usually means a word with the lodge or the estates office. Give the entrance you have been told to use and where the car sits inside, and the wheel is changed there.
Nearby
Around St John Street area.
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Gloucester Green, a Beaumont Street bay or a college frontage: the fitter works where the car stands.