Mobile tyre fitting
in Willesden.

A fitter at your car
in Willesden.

Street parking shapes every job in this part of Brent. A screw collected on the High Road usually leaves enough air to get home, and then the bay outside the house holds a flat car by morning, boxed in on both sides. Willesden Lane and Chichele Road contribute the kerbed rims, since a tight space and an unforgiving kerb are a poor combination. The answer is the same either way: name the bay, the street and the tyre size, then the wheel comes off in situ.

Drives, bays and car parks.

The working surface in Willesden is usually a resident's bay, and it is a perfectly good one when the van can stop behind or beside the car. The few driveways, mostly on the wider roads towards Mapesbury and Dollis Hill, are better again. A car that can still be driven might be easier to deal with at Brent Cross Shopping Park, where there is room to move around it. Loading bays, bus stops and the double lines along the A407 are no use to anybody.

Calls arrive from the roads between Willesden Green and Dollis Hill stations, from the NW2 end towards Cricklewood, and from the streets sloping down to Neasden Lane and Dudden Hill Lane. Almost all of it is controlled parking, which is fine for this work: what matters is that the car is parked lawfully and that there is space for a second vehicle to stop next to it for the length of the job. The High Road itself is not that space, with its buses and loading bays. There is no public car park in Willesden to speak of, the nearest being Harlesden Plaza, a fair walk away. Brondesbury Park and Kensal Rise are the stations at the southern edge. ULEZ covers NW10 and NW2 at all times and takes nothing from a parked car.