Mobile tyre fitting
in Tile Cross.

A fitter at your car
in Tile Cross.

Tile Cross is mostly homes, and tyre trouble here tends to be discovered at the kerb outside them. A slow puncture shows up as a soft tyre in the morning, a sidewall scuffed on a kerb grows a bulge, or an ageing tyre finally looks too worn to trust. The postcode tells part of the story, since the suburb straddles B33 and B37. Give the full address, the sidewall size and a word on whether the car still drives, and the right tyre goes on the van.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A driveway or the kerb outside the house covers most jobs, provided the car is not blocking a neighbour's access. For commuters, a marked bay at Lea Hall station car park is workable if it is clear of the drop-off lane. The Tile Cross Trading Estate is fine in a yard where the business agrees. The Lidl and Co-op Food car parks exist for shoppers, so the store is asked first, and bus stops or junction corners are never used.

Most calls start in the residential streets of the suburb itself, with others from the Garretts Green side and from the edge where Birmingham gives way to Chelmsley Wood and Solihull. The Tile Cross Trading Estate adds working vans to the mix. Most homes have a drive or a stretch of unrestricted kerb, which is all a fitter needs. The road to avoid stopping on is The Meadway over on the Kitts Green side, a dual carriageway with a central reservation and no verge; turn into a residential street before pulling up. Although Tile Cross is part of Birmingham, it lies a long way out from the Middleway, and nothing about the Clean Air Zone affects a tyre job in B33 or B37.