Vans running out of Fort Dunlop and the Tyburn Road estates cannot wait around. A tyre carrying the right load index turns up at the unit, the estate yard or the driveway where the van is parked.
Trade in this part of Birmingham runs north and east: deliveries out along the Tyburn Road towards Minworth, site work off the Chester Road, airport and Castle Vale runs through Pype Hayes. Lorry bolts and shed debris on the A38 and on the motorway slips at Castle Bromwich and Gravelly Hill find van treads first, and a van loaded with stock puts weight through its tyres that a car of the same size never sees.
Before anything is ordered, read the markings on the tyre coming off. After the size comes a C when the casing is built for commercial use, then a load index, doubled up on twin-wheel vans, and finally the speed letter. Quote those, or the registration, and what arrives is a tyre rated at least as high, fitted, balanced and inflated to the maker's plate figures.
Unit forecourts and yards around the Fort Dunlop complex and the trading estates off the A38, driveways across B23 and B24, and The Fort's car parks by arrangement. Nothing happens on the pedestrianised part of the High Street, on the M6 or on its slip roads.
| Postcodes | B23, B24 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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A van has to be lifted on ground that will not give. Concrete at a Fort Dunlop unit or a level drive in Short Heath is right; a soft verge or a sloping estate road is not. Clearing the tools from the back beforehand makes the lift safer still. An electric van carries battery weight, so its new tyre needs a load rating at least as high as the old one, and the noise grade deserves a glance.
Erdington van tyres brought to the unit, the estate yard or your drive.
