Mobile tyre fitting
in Walton Manor.

A fitter at your car
in Walton Manor.

Two main roads do most of the damage in this corner of OX2. The A4144 Woodstock Road and the A4165 Banbury Road both carry traffic into the middle of Oxford all day, and a wheel that catches a kerb pulling in or out of one tends to show a bulge rather than a flat. Slow punctures turn up on the residential streets in between. Whichever it is, the car need not move: the size from the sidewall and the street name are enough to get the right tyre loaded.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A private frontage or drive is the easiest surface in Walton Manor and many of these houses have one. A permit bay is workable when the space beside the car is clear, so say whether you are on the Woodstock Road side or the Banbury Road side and which end of the street. Walton Well Road Car Park is the public alternative, level enough for a jack. Gloucester Green Car Park and the station car parks are further options for a car that still drives. The running lanes of either main road are not an option.

The calls come from the streets running between the two main roads and from addresses on Woodstock Road itself, with Park Town, Jericho and Waterways close by and Summertown a short run up the Banbury Road. This is permit territory: inside the ring road nearly every residential street in Oxford is a controlled zone, so what the fitter asks is whether your car sits on a permit bay, on pay-and-display, or on a frontage of its own. Plenty of houses here do have a frontage, which makes the work straightforward. Moreton Road and Marston Ferry Road, both B4495, take traffic across towards Marston, and a kerb strike on either is a common reason for the phone to ring.