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Mobile tyre fitting
in Yarnton.
Yarnton is strung along the A44 Woodstock Road between Begbroke and Kidlington, a village of a few thousand with one trunk road through it. Rescue Tyres turns up at the parked vehicle with the tyre and the kit.
A fitter at your car
in Yarnton.
Living on a village main road has one drawback for tyres: the A44 through Yarnton never really stops. Something collected on the turn in or out will often hold pressure as far as the house, then be flat on the drive by morning. Nothing could be simpler to deal with, because the car has already parked itself exactly where the work needs to happen. Give the size from the sidewall along with an OX5 or OX29 postcode and the correct tyre comes out on the van.
| Postcode districts | OX5, OX29 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Woodstock Road (A44) |
| Nearest stations | Oxford Parkway (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Cassington Wastewater Treatment Works, Station Field Industrial Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 49 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
| Parent area | Mobile tyre fitting in Kidlington |
Tyre work in Yarnton.
What gets done in Yarnton is plain enough. A new tyre matched to the markings on the sidewall, budget or premium, with run-flat, van and electric fitments sourced the same way. Punctures sitting in the middle of the tread come off the rim for an inside patch-plug meeting BS AU 159, while a split or bulged sidewall means replacement instead. Where the key to a locking nut has vanished, the nut is drawn off without harming the finish on the wheel. The callout line runs round the clock, weekends included.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Drives, bays and car parks.
Off-street parking first and last. Yarnton has enough of it that most cars never have to be moved at all. The Yarnton Village Hall car park and The Turnpike are the obvious fallbacks for a household without any, though both belong to whoever runs them, so a word in advance saves a wasted trip. The Budgens forecourt is small and given over to shoppers, which makes it a poor spot to lift a car. A yard on the Station Field Industrial Estate suits a van once the site has agreed to it.
Callers are spread thinly, which is what a village of this size looks like: houses off Woodstock Road, the lanes towards Worton and Cassington, the newer streets by Garden City, and working vehicles at the Station Field Industrial Estate on the Kidlington side. Begbroke is under a mile up the same road and uses the same number, as do Thrupp and Gosford. Two postcode districts meet here, OX5 and OX29, so quote the full one rather than the street name. Nearly every job finishes on private parking, which is the surface a fitter would pick anyway. The A44 carriageway is not among the options: there is no room to stand off it, and a wheel should never be removed from anything left on it.

24 hours in Yarnton.
The night phone in OX5 rings for early-shift drivers heading towards Langford Lane more than anyone else, and for people back from Oxford who find a tyre soft on the drive. Somebody answers before dawn as readily as at midday. Size confirmed, stock confirmed, figure settled, and no charge for asking.
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."
Questions from Yarnton.
Will you fit the tyre on my own drive in Yarnton?
Is there anywhere public in Yarnton if I have no drive of my own?
Do you cover Begbroke, Cassington and Worton as well?
The tyre started going down while I was on the A44. What now?
Around Yarnton.
Stuck in Yarnton? Call now.
Woodstock Road, the village hall or a Begbroke address: the wheel comes off on the drive, not at a garage.
