★★★★★
"After damaging my tyre on a pothole I found myself in an unfamiliar area. Within 20 minutes of calling Rescue Tyres they came to my rescue. Wholeheartedly recommend."
DSDaniella SaccoGoogle review
Wealdstone, Greater London · HA3 and HA1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Wealdstone.
Harrow & Wealdstone station is on the doorstep here, and the A409 passes it as Railway Approach, The Bridge and George Gange Way inside a quarter of a mile. Rescue Tyres arrives with tyre and kit, and works at the kerb.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Wealdstone?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Wealdstone.
Three networks meet at that station, Underground, Overground and National Rail, which packs a lot of parked cars into a small part of HA3 and a lot of turning traffic onto Station Road and the High Street. Kerbs get clipped, potholes get found, and screws off the trade units end up in tread. None of it requires a trip anywhere. Off comes the wheel at the kerb, the tyre gets read properly, and the choice between mending it and fitting another is made there.
| Postcode districts | HA3, HA1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | George Gange Way (A409); The Bridge (A409); Railway Approach (A409); Station Road (A409) |
| Nearest stations | Harrow & Wealdstone (London Underground;London Overground;National Rail), Harrow-on-the-Hill (National Rail;London Underground), Kenton (London Underground;London Overground) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Waverley Industrial Park, Decommisioned Gas Works |
| Distance from our base | about 5 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Harrow |
What we do in Wealdstone
Tyre work in Wealdstone.
Trade vehicles and family cars get the same treatment. A nail sitting in the tread is handled from behind: the tyre is dismounted, the liner read, and a BS AU 159 seal laid in where the hole sits centrally and measures small enough to qualify. Shoulder damage, sidewall damage or a tyre that has run flat becomes a replacement in the matching size. Locking nuts are wound off on a purpose made socket when their key has vanished. Calls are taken all night and on every day of the week.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Wealdstone
Drives, bays and car parks.
Where there is a drive, that is the answer and the car does not move. Where there is not, and a good deal of Wealdstone has none, a permit or short stay bay along the A409 will do provided the car is legitimately in it. Peel House Car Park gives more elbow room than the street does. A yard at Waverley Industrial Park takes a van once the site has been warned. What does not work is the High Street kerb at a busy hour, or any spot where an open wheel arch would be sticking into a traffic lane.
The terraced streets behind the High Street and the roads off College Road account for most of the domestic calls, with the trade side coming from Waverley Industrial Park and the units around it. Parking is tighter here than in the rest of the borough: houses without drives, permit bays near the station, short stay bays along the A409. A car legally parked in one of those can be worked on, so long as you say what the restriction is and how much of it is left. Peel House Car Park and the Tesco car park are both open ground, with room to swing a wheel clear. As for the station car park, that is railway property and the operator decides what may happen in it.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Wealdstone.
The pattern after midnight in HA3 is shift traffic: people coming back to the streets around the station, and drivers loading early at the units off the High Street who find a tyre down in the cold. Someone picks up, the tyre is matched against what the car is wearing, and the job is priced out on that same call.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Life saver. Sudden puncture, hard-to-find tyre. They got back to me within 10 minutes and did a mobile tyre change."
JSJimmy SuGoogle review
Wealdstone FAQs
Questions from Wealdstone.
Can a tyre be changed in the car park at Harrow & Wealdstone station?
That car park is railway land rather than public ground, so the operator's view of vehicle work in it decides the matter. Ask at the barrier or the office first. If the answer is awkward, the residential streets behind the High Street are a couple of turns away.
The car sits on a permit bay all week. Is that workable?
A permit bay is workable when the car is legally in it. The fitter needs room on the road side to get a jack under the sill and to lay a wheel down, so a bay on a wider stretch beats one at a pinch point. Mention the restriction when booking.
Something went into the tyre on Station Road. Where should the car go?
Off the A409 and into one of the turnings behind it, or into Peel House Car Park if you are nearer to that. The point is to get the car somewhere it can sit still with traffic passing at a distance rather than alongside an open wheel.
What happens to the old tyre once the new one is on?
It goes with the fitter. The van takes the casing away for disposal, so nothing is left leaning against a wall or filling up the boot. That is part of the visit rather than something you arrange separately afterwards.
Nearby
Around Wealdstone.
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From Railway Approach to College Road and the Waverley Industrial Park units, a fitter works at the car.