★★★★★
"I urgently needed to replace my tyres and the team were prompt, friendly and efficient at a great price."
JIJisoo ImGoogle review
Upminster Bridge, Greater London · RM14 and RM11
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Upminster Bridge.
Upminster Bridge is the piece of A124 Upminster Road lying between Hornchurch and Upminster, and it has a London Underground station to itself. Rescue Tyres turns up at the address with the matching tyre already aboard and deals with the car there.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Upminster Bridge?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Upminster Bridge.
Addresses here refuse to sit in one postcode district. RM14, RM11 and RM12 all reach this far, and which of them you fall in depends on the turning off Upminster Road or St Mary's Lane where you live. It matters the moment a tyre deflates, because the postcode is what pins the address down. Read it out along with the sidewall code and the tyre is aboard before anybody leaves.
| Postcode districts | RM14, RM11, RM12 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Upminster Road (A124); St Mary's Lane (A124); High Street (A124); Station Lane (A124) |
| Nearest stations | Upminster Bridge (London Underground), Upminster (National Rail;London Underground;London Overground), Hornchurch (London Underground) |
| Nearest motorway junction | Junction 29 (Cranham), about 2.2 miles away |
| Distance from our base | about 20 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Havering |
What we do in Upminster Bridge
Tyre work in Upminster Bridge.
Single tyres, mostly. The order goes in against the sidewall code, and fitting takes place at the kerb outside your own door. Screws and nails in the tread are dealt with by taking the wheel away, separating tyre from rim, reading the inner liner for harm the driver could never have seen, and bonding in a patch-plug where BS AU 159 lets one go. Sidewall failures become replacements, rim checked first. Seized or keyless locking nuts come out. Somebody answers at four in the morning no less readily than at noon.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Upminster Bridge
Drives, bays and car parks.
Private drives head the list, and most turnings off the A124 have them. Where there is none, a quiet road will serve, the vehicle left straight with enough offside room that the fitter never has to work from the carriageway. Gaynes Road Car Park, a short run into Upminster, is public, and a car with enough air left in it can make that. Store car parks are the shops' property, so a job on one starts with the manager agreeing to it.
Callers on this stretch are the households on both flanks of the A124, the turnings hanging off Corbets Tey Road, and commuters who park up near the station for the working day. The station itself has barely any parking, so its cars spread onto the residential roads round about, which handle a wheel change perfectly well as long as the vehicle is not sitting in a bend or across a dropped kerb. Get off the main road and drives become the norm, easily the best surface the district has. The A124 carriageway is excluded, on the bridge and on both approaches: traffic uses it all day and nobody could stand clear of it.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Upminster Bridge.
Nights here are quiet ones. Typically it is a commuter off a late train who finds the car down on its rim, or somebody who has noticed a bulge and would sooner not set off on it at dawn. Someone picks the phone up regardless of the time, and the total for tyre and callout is settled before the van moves.
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
Upminster Bridge FAQs
Questions from Upminster Bridge.
Which postcode should I give you, RM11, RM12 or RM14?
Whichever one the post actually carries. All three districts reach into this part of the A124 and a road name alone settles nothing. Postcode plus house number puts the fitter at the right door first time, which counts for rather more here than elsewhere.
Can a wheel be changed on a street near Upminster Bridge station?
A residential turning does the job, provided the vehicle sits straight and away from a junction. Keep clear of the bridge itself. Traffic on the A124 passes far too close there for anybody to be safe on the offside of a jacked car.
Is a bulge in the sidewall repairable?
Sidewall damage falls outside BS AU 159 no matter how small it looks, since the repairable area stops at the tread. A bulge is the internal casing giving way. Ring with the size and a replacement comes out to the door instead.
Do you come out on a Sunday?
Seven days, bank holidays included. Quote the RM postcode, the sidewall size and roughly where the vehicle is standing, and an arrival time you can actually plan around gets agreed between you on that call.
Nearby
Around Upminster Bridge.
Upminster Bridge · standing by
Stuck in Upminster Bridge? Call now.
Upminster Road, a turning off Corbets Tey Road or your own drive: the van comes out to you.