Mobile tyre fitting
in Winchmore Hill.

A fitter at your car
in Winchmore Hill.

N21 is driveway country and that decides most of what happens when a tyre goes down. The damage is generally picked up elsewhere, on Green Lanes or on the estate roads over towards Martinbridge, and only shows itself once the car is home and cold. Slow punctures, perished valves, a sidewall grazed while turning into one of the narrow roads off Village Road. All of it is easier to deal with on private ground than at a roadside. Quote the size and the N21 or N13 postcode when you call.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Best of all is a drive or a hardstanding out front, which this corner of N21 has in quantity, because the car need not move at all and there is room on either side of it. Next best is the kerb on a residential road, car parallel, flat wheel towards the pavement wherever that can be arranged. Fords Grove Car Park does when a tyre is holding just enough to get there. Waitrose and Sainsbury's bays belong to the stores, so it is their call. Ridge Avenue and Green Lanes are not the place.

Callers come from the avenues around the station, from Church Street and the roads off it, from Ridge Avenue down towards Palmers Green, and from the Grange Park side in the other direction. Off street parking is more common here than in most of the borough, which means the fitter usually works on a householder's own ground with the car untouched where it sits. Where a house has no frontage, the roads are generally broad enough for a kerbside change that gets in nobody's way. Fords Grove Car Park is the public alternative, useful when the car has managed to get itself there. Green Lanes has bus lanes and steady through traffic, making it the one stretch in the district to keep clear of. The ULEZ applies here as across London.