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Twickenham, Greater London · TW1 and TW2
Mobile tyre fitting
Mobile tyre fitting
in Twickenham.
Twickenham town centre is built round King Street and York Street, with the A310 dropping south along Cross Deep, and it has multi-storey parking of its own. Rescue Tyres comes to the bay or the kerb and fits the tyre there.
★★★★★5.0 on Google from 151 reviews·Usually under an hour
Tyre trouble in Twickenham?
A fitter at your car
A fitter at your car
in Twickenham.
Town centre tyres take their punishment from kerbs rather than from debris. King Street and York Street are narrow, the bays are tight, and a wheel nudged into granite while parking can lose air over the following week. Out towards the A316 the damage arrives at speed instead. Whichever it is, the car is often stationary and legally parked by the time anyone picks up the phone, which is exactly the condition a mobile fitter wants.
| Postcode districts | TW1, TW2 |
|---|---|
| Main roads | Chertsey Road (A316); Whitton Road Roundabout; London Road Roundabout; St. Margaret's Circus |
| Nearest stations | Twickenham (National Rail), Strawberry Hill (National Rail), Whitton (National Rail) |
| Estates and parks nearby | Ivybridge Retail Park, Heathlands Industrial Estate, Twickenham Trading Estate |
| Distance from our base | about 10 miles from Brent Cross, NW2 (straight line) |
| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
What we do in Twickenham
Tyre work in Twickenham.
New tyres come out matched to the marking on your sidewall and go on at the car, balanced on the van's own equipment before the wheel goes back. A puncture through the tread is repaired from behind the casing, to BS AU 159, provided the injury sits where that standard permits. Where a tyre has let go, a new one goes on once the rim has been looked over. Where the locking key has gone astray, the nuts still come off and plain ones go back on. Calls are taken at every hour, weekends counted.
Repairs follow BS AU 159; the legal minimum tread is 1.6mm (GOV.UK).
Twickenham sits within our mobile tyre fitting across Richmond upon Thames, and the same base and phone line cover both.
Services from the Richmond upon Thames page: 24 hour tyre service · Puncture repair · 24 hour tyre repair · Emergency tyre repair · Broken tyre replacement.
Where we work in Twickenham
Drives, bays and car parks.
A car park bay is the usual answer in the middle of town: level surface, room to swing a wheel off, and no argument with passing traffic. Further out, a driveway in TW1 or TW2 is better still. Resident bays are workable provided the permit belongs to that car. What will not do: a loading bay, a dropped kerb somebody needs, or the edge of King Street at any point in the day. Twickenham Trading Estate keeps yards that will take a van where the site agrees.
The patch spreads across TW1 and TW2: the terraces off Heath Road and Staines Road, the riverside streets down Cross Deep, the St Margarets end, and the roads behind the station. The middle of Twickenham is short of driveways, so car parks are often the place to work. Arragon Road Multi-Storey, York House Car Park, Cole Court and Holly Road car park are options where the operator allows, and a bay away from the ramps leaves room for a wheel to come off. On street, the middle of town is controlled parking, so your own permitted bay is fine while a loading bay is not. King Street, York Street and the A310 through traffic are unsuitable, and the A316 is out altogether. The ULEZ covers the lot, at no cost to a car that is parked.
The vans that work Twickenham also cover Eel Pie Island and Petersham.
Nights and weekends
24 hours in Twickenham.
A late call in Twickenham might be about a car that came home with a flat and cannot go out in the morning, a tyre just found down in a permit bay, or a driver off the A316 who has pulled into a side road. At any hour of the night, 07473 720871 gets an answer.
Google reviews
What drivers say.
★★★★★
"Amazingly fast, polite and saved my day."
YOYvonne OphausGoogle review
Twickenham FAQs
Questions from Twickenham.
Can a tyre be changed inside the Arragon Road Multi-Storey?
Where the operator allows, though a multi-storey entrance may have a height barrier, so tell us the car park and the level and clearance is checked before the van sets off. Where the roof is too low, you are met instead on an open car park or a nearby side street.
I have a flat in a resident bay off Heath Road. Is that workable?
A permit bay holding your own car is fine to work in. The fitter needs the street, the bay and enough room on the traffic side to kneel. Where the road is narrow, shifting the car a little way to a wider stretch makes the job safer for everyone.
A tyre went down on the A316 near the Whitton Road Roundabout. What should I do?
Come off at the next turning and park somewhere ordinary, such as the streets behind Heath Road. Nobody works on a trunk road or its roundabouts. A car that cannot be shifted at all is a 999 matter, or National Highways on 0300 123 5000, and recovery to somewhere safe.
Do you cover the Cross Deep and St Margarets ends of TW1?
Both are on the round, along with the streets between the station and York Street. Those riverside roads are tight, so tell the fitter whether it is parked on a drive, in a permit bay or tight to a wall before setting out from Brent Cross.
Nearby
Around Twickenham.
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King Street, Cross Deep or a deck at Arragon Road: the wheel is changed where you are parked.