Nechells runs on working vehicles, and a van standing on a flat outside a Saltley Gate unit earns nothing. The correct load rated tyre comes to the yard and goes on there.
Commercial mileage in B7 starts early and ends late. Vans load at the units along Heartlands Parkway, at Saltley Gate and on Nechells Park Road, then head out on the A47 to Fort Dunlop and M6 J5, or up the Aston Expressway. Sharp metal on those industrial approaches goes through a tread without warning, and broken kerbs on the estate roads take lumps out of a loaded shoulder.
The fitter needs the full code off the sidewall, the C marking and load index above all, plus the unit or street and whether the site will let a van through the gate. Then it is done on the spot: old casing off the rim, new one mounted and balanced, wheel torqued, pressures set for a laden axle, scrap taken away. The total is agreed on the call.
Inside a yard off Heartlands Parkway or Saltley Gate when the site agrees, at Star City in the leisure park bays, or on a Duddeston street where the kerb is clear. The parkways themselves are no place to stop, and the A38(M) even less so.
| Postcodes | B7 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Jacking a loaded van calls for a surface that will take the weight without tilting, which hard standing at a Nechells Park Road unit manages better than a broken estate kerb. Where the load can be shifted off the axle being lifted, shift it. Electric vans weigh more still, so the maker's load index and noise rating are the numbers to work from.
Van tyres fitted at the Nechells unit, the yard gate or the Star City bay.
