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Wendover, Buckinghamshire · HP22
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Wendover.
Wendover sits among the Chilterns, with the B4009 Aylesbury Road running through the middle of it and the station just off the High Street. Tyres get fitted and mended at the drive or the bay the car already occupies.
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Tyre trouble in Wendover?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Wendover.
Tyre trouble in HP22 arrives in two shapes. One is the commuter kind: a car left at the station all day and found sitting low on one corner at dusk. The other comes off the lanes, where flint and a hard verge edge take the sidewall out of a tyre on the way out to Dunsmore or across to Ellesborough. Either way the car does not have to move. Call out the numbers round the tyre wall, say where the car stands, and the right one comes out with the fitter.
| Postcode districts | HP22 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Nash Lee Road (A413); Aylesbury Road (B4009); Tring Road (B4009); Upper Icknield Way (B4009) |
| Nearest stations | Wendover (National Rail) |
| Distance from our base | about 26 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Tring |
What we do in Wendover
Tyre work in Wendover.
New tyres, punctures and bursts make up the bulk of it, plus the locking nut whose key nobody has seen in years. Every tyre is matched to what is written round the old one, load index and speed rating included, so the fitment is right rather than nearly right. Repairs are made from within to BS AU 159, which keeps them inside the tread and rules out anything in the sidewall. Having the cover off the rim also shows what caused the trouble. The callout line runs overnight and at weekends.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Wendover
Drives, bays and car parks.
Drives take most of the work, and gravel is fine so long as the ground under the jack stays firm. In the middle of town the High Street Car Park is the one genuinely public option. The station car park and its overflow are railway ground, so a bay there works when staff know what is happening. Out on the lanes towards Dunsmore and Chivery a soft verge will not hold a jack, so the fitter looks for a gateway, a yard or a level piece of hard standing instead.
The High Street and the roads leading off it produce a fair number of the calls, along with houses on Tring Road and the Upper Icknield Way and the villages the town serves: Halton, Weston Turville, Butler's Cross and the hamlets at World's End and Terrick. Most homes have a drive of their own, which is where the bulk of the work ends up. In the centre the High Street Car Park gives a marked bay with room around it, which suits anyone whose car will not make it home. The A413 carries the through traffic and offers nowhere sensible to stop, so a driver losing pressure on it should come off into the town first and ring from there.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Wendover.
The night calls in Wendover are the early train crowd and the late run home through the lanes. Somebody sets off for the first service, finds a flat on the drive and rings before six; somebody else limps in off the A413 at midnight. The phone is covered either way and the price is settled on it.
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What drivers say.
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"Fast and efficient, really good service, sociable guy."
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Wendover FAQs
Questions from Wendover.
Can you fit a tyre at Wendover station car park?
That car park and the overflow belong to the train operator, so it comes down to courtesy: tell the staff, and keep the car within a bay instead of blocking a lane. When you ring, have the bay number, the plate and the tyre size ready.
Do you cover Halton, Weston Turville and Butler's Cross as well as the town?
All of them sit on the same run, along with North Lee, Terrick and World's End. HP22 spreads well past the town itself, so the postcode plus a house name or number is what gets the van to the correct gate on a lane where nothing is numbered.
A flint has gone into my sidewall coming back from Dunsmore. Can it be repaired?
Sidewall damage cannot be mended, whatever put it there, because that section of the tyre bends with every revolution and a patch would not survive it. The wheel takes a replacement instead, sized off the old casing and fitted where the car is standing.
Is there any clean air charge for a car being worked on in Wendover?
None of that kind reaches this part of Buckinghamshire. The London scheme stops at the edge of the capital and nothing similar operates in HP22. A charge applies to a vehicle in motion in any case, and a car propped on a jack is doing nothing of the sort.
Nearby
Around Wendover.
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High Street Car Park, the station bays or a drive out at World's End: the fitter comes out.