Delivery vans on the Battery Retail Park service road, trade vans on Weoley Park drives, maintenance vehicles round the student terraces: Selly Oak's working vehicles get their tyres fitted where they are parked.
A working van in B29 usually has a round to finish. Deliveries feed Battery Retail Park and the Selly Oak Shopping Park off the A38, contractors come and go at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and the letting and maintenance firms keeping Bournbrook's shared houses running have vans parked outside them most of the year. Loaded rear axles wear tyres unevenly, and the screws that collect in the Bristol Road gutters find them soon enough.
Have the sidewall ready. A van tyre reads size, then a C for commercial, then load figures usually shown as two numbers, then a speed letter. Where none of it can be made out, the registration finds it. The replacement carries at least that rating, goes onto the changer and then the balancer inside the van, and is set to the laden pressure its maker gives. Price is fixed on the call before anyone sets off.
Retail park service areas once the site manager agrees, drives in Selly Park and Weoley Park, unrestricted stretches off Raddlebarn Road, and Bournbrook permit bays with the permit shown. Never the Bristol Road bus lanes or Aston Webb Boulevard.
| Postcodes | B29 |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Putting a jack under a laden van means finding ground that is solid and flat, which rules out the soft verges and rules in a Weoley Park drive or the made-up surface at the retail park. Lightening the side coming up helps a good deal. Electric vans outweigh the diesels they replace, so the rating listed by the manufacturer must be honoured, plus the noise figure where one is quoted.
Van tyres fitted across Selly Oak so the round keeps moving. Ring 07473 720871.
