Mobile tyre fitting
in Wollaston.

A fitter at your car
in Wollaston.

Out here the tyre usually goes on the way home. A screw collected on the A509 between Wellingborough and the Wollaston Roundabout will often hold enough air to reach the village, and the car is found sitting low the next morning. The B569 runs right through, as Irchester Road, Howard Road, Queens Road and South Street, so most homes are a turn or two off it. Text over the sidewall size and your NN29 postcode, and the right Wollaston tyre goes on board before the van leaves.

Drives, bays and car parks.

The drive at home comes first, and most Wollaston jobs finish on one. A level side street off Hinwick Road or Queens Road is the next choice, with the Wollaston car hugging the kerb and room to work on the side facing the traffic. The Co-op bays are for its shoppers, so they suit a short stop only with the store's blessing. A lane with no room beside the car is not a working spot, so a car that stopped out towards Podington is best brought into the village if it can still roll.

Calls come from the houses strung along the B569, from the roads nearer the bypass, and from the farms and cottages at Strixton, Farndish and Hinwick. Wollaston has no station, retail park or trading estate, so almost every job here is done at somebody's house. A driveway is the natural place for it. Where the car lives on the street, a straight run of kerb away from a junction works, and if the spot sounds awkward, the fitter will say so during the call. Two places are refused outright: the A509 itself, London Road and Wollaston Road included, and the Wollaston Roundabout. Nothing stops beside through traffic on those. No emissions charge applies anywhere in North Northamptonshire, so an older car costs nothing extra to move a short way to a better spot.