Mobile tyre fitting
in West Wickham.

A fitter at your car
in West Wickham.

The High Street here is the A232, which means shopping traffic and through traffic share one road, and that is where a fair few tyres come to grief: a kerb caught while pulling into a bay, or something picked up further along on Wickham Road. Then there is the station trade, cars left near West Wickham or Eden Park all day and found flat at six. Nothing needs moving: the tyre, the jack and the balancer come to wherever it is parked.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A drive at the house is the plain answer and covers the bulk of it. A residential turning off the High Street serves too, with the car parked properly in and the fitter on the pavement side. Chaffinch Business Park has yards for commercial vehicles when the site is willing. Station parking at West Wickham and Eden Park is railway ground, so it depends on the operator. The High Street bays themselves are too tight and too busy for a wheel to come off.

Calls come from the streets off Station Road and Beckenham Road, from South Eden Park Road and the Park Langley side, from Coney Hall and Kent Gate, and from the Croydon edge where BR4 gives way to CR0. Most of the housing has a drive, and a drive is where the majority of jobs finish. Around the High Street the bays are short stay and controlled, so a car in one needs a valid ticket and has to stay put while the wheel is off. The Sainsbury's car park is private and needs the store's agreement. Nothing is done at the kerb of the A232 itself or on the A2022 Kent Gate Way. This is London, so the ULEZ runs here at all hours, though standing still costs nothing.