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"Good communication, excellent work and takes the initiative. Happy to go the extra mile, highly recommended if you're in a tyre-related bit of bother!"
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Welling, Greater London · DA16
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Welling.
Welling is one long parade, the A207 running through Welling High Street and Bellegrove Road, with the station a street behind it. Rescue Tyres comes out to DA16 and deals with the wheel at the kerb or on the drive.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Typically 60 to 90 minutes
Tyre trouble in Welling?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Welling.
Most of what goes wrong with a tyre in Welling happens at low speed. The parade is busy with people pulling in and out of the bays along Bellegrove Road, and a kerb clipped on the turn into Upper Wickham Lane will nick a sidewall or knock the pressure out of a rim. The rest comes off the A207 itself, where a screw picked up on the way through only shows as a soft tyre the next morning. Quote the sidewall markings on the phone and the match is loaded before the van leaves.
| Postcode districts | DA16 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Rochester Way (A2); East Rochester Way (A2); Welling High Street (A207); Upper Wickham Lane (A209) |
| Nearest stations | Welling (National Rail), Bexleyheath (National Rail), Falconwood (National Rail) |
| Distance from our base | about 16 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Typically 60 to 90 minutes |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Bexley |
What we do in Welling
Tyre work in Welling.
Four jobs cover the lot in DA16. A replacement tyre, ordered to the code moulded into the sidewall so load and speed ratings carry over unchanged. A tread puncture, where the tyre is peeled back from its rim, checked over from the inner liner outwards, then closed with a patch-plug if the injury falls inside what BS AU 159 allows. A tyre gone bang means a new one and the rim checked. And a locking nut that has outlived its key. Ranges run from budget to premium, run-flat and van sizes with them, and the line is covered overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Welling
Drives, bays and car parks.
Start with the front of the house: level, private, and the car never has to move. Without a drive, a side street off Upper Wickham Lane will do, so long as the car sits tight in to the kerb and nobody has to work from the middle of the road. Welling itself has nothing in the way of public parking to fall back on. Bays at the Tesco or the Lidl are for customers and run on a clock, so they are a fallback and nothing more.
Calls come from the terraces and semis on either side of the parade, from Park View Road heading towards Bexleyheath, and from the streets that run out towards East Wickham and Blackfen. DA16 is one postcode district and it covers nearly all of it, which keeps things simple on the phone. Near Welling station the kerb space is taken by commuter cars all day, and the roads around the High Street carry buses, so neither is a sensible place to leave a car jacked up. A driveway is. Most houses here have one, or a hardstanding at the front, and that is where the majority of jobs finish. Welling is inside the ULEZ, as every London address is, but a car that is not being driven, only jacked, attracts no charge whatsoever.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Welling.
After dark the Welling calls tend to be people back from a shift finding the car sitting low on the drive, and drivers who came off the A2 with something in a tyre and got as far as home. The phone is manned at every hour, your size is matched to stock, and the figure for the job is put to you before anything moves.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Great service. Friendly, fast and saved me at a late hour."
HSHassan SkaikyGoogle review
Welling FAQs
Questions from Welling.
Can you fit a tyre in the bays along Bellegrove Road?
Those bays are short stay and sit right against moving traffic on the A207, so they are a poor place to have a wheel off. If the car still drives, take it into one of the residential streets behind the parade and ring from there instead.
Is Welling inside the ULEZ?
It is. Every London borough falls inside the zone and it never switches off, so DA16 is no exception. What gets charged is driving a non-compliant vehicle, not keeping one, and a car sat on a drive with its tyre coming off owes nothing.
What happens if the locking wheel nut key is nowhere to be found?
A dedicated removal socket bites into the nut's pattern and turns it out, which leaves the alloy alone. That is done on the drive first, the replacement tyre follows, and an ordinary nut is left in place of the locking one.
Do you also cover Falconwood and East Wickham from here?
Both are on the same round as Welling, as are Blackfen and the East Wickham side of Upper Wickham Lane. Everything is worked from the single Brent Cross base, and rather than a promise you get an honest arrival time settled on the call itself.
Nearby
Around Welling.
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Bellegrove Road, Park View Road or the drive at home in DA16, the fitter comes to the car.