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"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."
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Whitmore Reans, West Midlands · WV6 and WV1
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Whitmore Reans.
Whitmore Reans is the close grid of terraces and student lets packed between the A41 Tettenhall Road and the A449 Stafford Road. Rescue Tyres drives the replacement and every tool for it to the Whitmore Reans kerb by your front door.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours
Tyre trouble in Whitmore Reans?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Whitmore Reans.
Hardly any Whitmore Reans house has a drive, so a flat here is usually spotted at the kerb: one corner sagging on a car squeezed nose to tail between two others, or a sidewall scraped while edging into a tight gap. Tettenhall Road takes commuter traffic along the bottom of these streets, and a screw collected there tends to reveal itself a day later. Ring with the street name, how much space the car has either side and the tyre's size, and a match for it rides out in the van.
| Postcode districts | WV6, WV1 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Tettenhall Road (A41); Compton Road (A454); Chapel Ash (A41); Five Ways |
| Nearest stations | Wolverhampton St Georges (West Midlands Metro), Wolverhampton (National Rail;West Midlands Metro), Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro) |
| Estates and parks nearby | St John's Retail Park, Mitre Retail Park, Culwell Industrial Park |
| Distance from our base | about 108 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Wolverhampton |
What we do in Whitmore Reans
Tyre work in Whitmore Reans.
Most work in these streets is on small hatchbacks, older saloons and the occasional delivery van left outside overnight. Replacements follow the size, load index and speed letter already on the sidewall. A screw in a Whitmore Reans tread means the casing comes away from the wheel for a look inside, and a plug and patch goes in only where BS AU 159 says the hole can be mended. Burst tyres are swapped and their wheels looked over. Key gone for the locking nut? Removal leaves the alloy unmarked. The phone is manned overnight.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Where we work in Whitmore Reans
Drives, bays and car parks.
Kerbside outside the house is the working surface for most Whitmore Reans jobs, provided nothing about the parking breaks a rule and the damaged wheel is turned to the pavement or an open gap. Resident permit bays are fine with the permit on display. The Avion Centre car park takes a Whitmore Reans car that is still mobile, parked well away from its entrance. Store car parks remain the store's to allow. Double parking, a bus stop or a space on Tettenhall Road itself are all ruled out.
The calls start in the terraced roads that run back from Tettenhall Road, in shared houses let to students at the University of Wolverhampton, and in the flats towards Five Ways. Nearly everyone parks on the street, bumper to bumper, so what decides the job is whether the fitter can get at the deflated corner while standing clear of the running lane. When a neighbour's car is pressed against yours, asking them to shuffle it along for a while usually solves it. Pulling up on the A41 itself, at Chapel Ash or on the A4150 ring road is a bad idea with a tyre going, so turn into a side road before you stop. If the car will still roll, the Avion Centre car park and the Asda close by are possible, subject to the operator. Claregate and Stockwell End border the western side.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Whitmore Reans.
Night calls here tend to be students or shift workers who find a tyre down on the way to the car and need it first thing tomorrow. Whatever the time, a person answers, notes the size and the street, and spells out what the visit comes to before the van moves.
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
Whitmore Reans FAQs
Questions from Whitmore Reans.
I live in a Whitmore Reans terrace with no drive. Can the tyre be sorted at the kerb?
Kerbside is where most of the work in these streets happens. The fitter needs the car parked legally and enough clearance around the flat wheel to kneel beside it and lift it safely. If another car is jammed against yours, ask the owner to move it before the van arrives.
Do you look after student cars near the University of Wolverhampton?
A student car gets the same treatment as any other, on the street or in a bay that allows the work. Have the size ready off the tyre, and mention whether the key for any locking wheel nut sits in the glovebox, since a missing key changes the kit needed.
Could I drive to the Avion Centre car park to meet the fitter?
Where the tyre is only part deflated, that is a sensible short run from most Whitmore Reans streets. Leave the car clear of the Avion Centre entrance with room on the damaged side. A completely flat tyre should stay put on its own street, and the fitter comes there instead.
Which postcodes around Whitmore Reans are covered?
Whitmore Reans straddles WV6 and WV1, stretching from Tettenhall Road over towards Stafford Road, and both districts are on the list along with Claregate and Stockwell End. Every van leaves from Brent Cross in north London, which means a truthful arrival slot for Whitmore Reans is set during the call.
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Around Whitmore Reans.
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Tettenhall Road terraces, student lets or the Avion Centre, a Rescue Tyres fitter reaches the car wherever it sits in Whitmore Reans.