Mobile tyre fitting
in Wheathampstead.

A fitter at your car
in Wheathampstead.

Wheathampstead is B roads and lanes, and that shapes the tyre trouble. The B651 through the village and the B653 towards Codicote take most of the traffic, and a rim caught on a lane edge or a slow puncture from something on Lamer Lane is the usual tale. Cars here often stand a day or two before anyone notices the pressure has dropped. Phone with the code round the tyre and an AL4 postcode; the replacement goes on the van before it starts.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Private parking at the address does nearly all of it. A driveway, a hard standing, an area shared by a row of houses: each is level, solid and clear of traffic. East Lane car park takes a driveable car when home has no room, and it really is public, which shop and station parking elsewhere in the district is not. What cannot be used is a lane verge, a tight bend on the B653, or anywhere the vehicle would be sitting in the road minus a wheel.

Calls arrive from the houses on High Street and Station Road, from the roads off Cory-Wright Way, and from the hamlets scattered round the village: Amwell, Nomansland, Gustardwood, Blackmore End, Mackerye End and Coleman Green. Most village and hamlet addresses have somewhere private to leave a car, and the job happens right there, the vehicle standing exactly where it stopped. East Lane car park is the single piece of public parking here, and it serves a driveable car whose owner has no room at home. Narrow stretches of the B651 and the B653 are no place to jack anything, with traffic about and nowhere clear to stand. Lane addresses deserve describing properly on the phone, because a postcode alone can cover a long run of lane out here.