Mobile tyre fitting
in Temple Fortune.

A fitter at your car
in Temple Fortune.

Tyres tend to be ruined here on the way through rather than at rest. Falloden Way and the North Circular are hard going on rubber, and a screw collected on the A406 usually announces itself as a soft tyre the following morning on a quiet residential turning. That is precisely what a mobile fitter is for. Quote the markings off your sidewall, say which turning the car is on, add a postcode, and the correct tyre rides out with the fitter while the car itself stays put.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A private drive is the easiest surface and much of NW11 has one. Otherwise a legal space on a side turning off Finchley Road leaves the fitter room on the pavement side of the car. Brent Cross Shopping Park is level, open and simple to find, so it works as a meeting point. Supermarket bays are customer parking, and the shop needs to know a van is coming in. Off the list entirely: the A1 carriageway, a bus stop clearway, or a gap so tight the wheel would come off into moving traffic.

Callers ring from the grid of streets behind the parade, from the Hampstead Garden Suburb side, and from drivers who have pulled off Finchley Road or Golders Green Road with pressure dropping. A house around here often has a drive, which settles the question before it is asked. Failing that, an unrestricted kerbside space on a residential turning does the job. The A1 itself does not: Falloden Way and Lyttelton Road carry through traffic with restrictions along them, and no one should be kneeling at a wheel on either. No public car park serves the parade, so anyone whose car remains driveable does better heading round to Brent Cross Shopping Park. Barnet is inside the ULEZ, which charges driving and never a stationary vehicle.