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"Absolutely amazing service. First call-out for a replacement tyre after hours and I was amazed."
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Watlington, Oxfordshire, near South Oxfordshire · OX49
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Watlington.
Watlington in Oxfordshire has no railway of its own: the B4009 passes through as Couching Street and Shirburn Street, and the B480 heads off towards Cuxham. Rescue Tyres carries tyre and tools out to wherever the car is standing.
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Tyre trouble in Watlington?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Watlington.
Tyre trouble in OX49 tends to be found rather than felt. A car stands overnight on Britwell Road or out at Pyrton, and by first light one corner has settled, and nobody is driving seven miles to Thame on that. So the wheel stays where it is. Quote the sidewall size, name the street or lane the car is on, and the matching tyre leaves Brent Cross aboard the van.
| Postcode districts | OX49 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Cuxham Road (B480); Couching Street (B4009); Brook Street (B480); Shirburn Street (B4009) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Watlington Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 34 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Thame |
What we do in Watlington
Tyre work in Watlington.
Most of the work here is a puncture. The wheel comes off, the cover is pushed clear of its rim and read from within, and where the object went in at the tread's crown, leaving a hole 6 mm across or under, BS AU 159 permits a bonded patch-plug, which is what goes in. Wall damage never qualifies, so that tyre is renewed against the markings the car already carries. Bursts are swapped, the rim checked as it goes. Locking nuts are drawn out once the key has gone. Calls are taken at any hour.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Watlington
Drives, bays and car parks.
A drive is the first choice and most Watlington jobs finish on one, the car left precisely where it stopped. Hill Road car park is public and easy enough to name on the phone, which makes it the obvious spot to meet anyone whose car will still roll. A yard on the industrial estate suits a van, so long as whoever runs it expects a fitter that day. The only other parking hereabouts belongs to a pub, private ground, and nobody is directed there.
Calls come from three sorts of address. There are the streets in the middle of town, Couching Street, Shirburn Street and Brook Street, where more often than not the car is on the road outside rather than a drive. There are the roads off them, Howe Road and Hill Road, where a frontage is easier to come by. And there are the hamlets, Pyrton, Shirburn, Britwell Salome, Cuxham and Christmas Common, where an address is a house name and a dropped phone pin saves the fitter a lap of the lane. Working vehicles ring from the Watlington Industrial Estate. Nobody jacks a car half on a B480 verge, because there is nowhere safe to stand.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Watlington.
After dark the phone rings here for one of two reasons. Somebody has come home late to Shirburn or Britwell Salome and found the car sitting down on one side, or a working vehicle is due out of the industrial estate at dawn and will not go anywhere on that tyre. The cost of tyre and callout is agreed before anyone sets off.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Good and fast service."
BWBaruch WiesenbergGoogle review
Watlington FAQs
Questions from Watlington.
Is this the Watlington in Oxfordshire?
This is the OX49 one in South Oxfordshire, the market town on the B4009 with Pyrton, Shirburn and Christmas Common about it. The name turns up elsewhere in Britain, so say the postcode on the call and nothing gets mixed up.
Can a tyre be fitted in the Hill Road car park?
That car park is public and there is room to get the wheel off and set it down, which is what the job needs. Park away from the entrance, say which part of it you are in, and the fitter will find you. A drive at home works just as well.
My car is at a house out in Cuxham with no number. How do you find it?
Send a location pin or a what3words reference along with the house name, plus anything a driver would notice from the lane, a gateway or the colour of the door. A satnav gets vague between Cuxham and Brightwell Baldwin, and a pin takes the guesswork out of it.
Can you sort a van tyre on the Watlington Industrial Estate?
Van sizes are obtained just as car sizes are, from the code on the sidewall, and go on wherever the vehicle has stopped on the estate. Warn the site that the van is off the road for a spell, and say whether the tyre still holds air.
Nearby
Around Watlington.
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Couching Street, the Hill Road car park or a lane out at Pyrton: the fitter comes to the car.