Delivery and trade vans keep Westminster supplied, and one on a flat blocks a whole round. Load-rated tyres are fitted at the hotel service bay, the mews or the bay where the van stands.
Van traffic here is deliveries and trades rather than industry: restaurant supplies into Soho and Covent Garden, shop fitters on Oxford Street and Regent Street, builders refurbishing Marylebone mansion blocks, and rounds that leave early to be clear of the charge zone. Loaded, every tyre carries far more weight than the same size would on a car. Granite kerbs, tight mews turns and constant kerbside loading are hard on sidewalls.
Take the reading off the sidewall before you ring. The C in a marking like 235/65 R16C shows a commercial casing. After it comes the load index, usually a couple of figures, 115 then 113, the lower one applying when wheels are doubled up, and the speed letter ends the line. A registration will do instead. What we bring is rated to that or higher, balanced, then set to the door pillar plate.
Hotel and office service bays at Mayfair, Victoria and Soho, mews yards in Paddington, Marylebone and Belgravia, resident and paid bays across Pimlico, Maida Vale and St John's Wood. Never on Park Lane, Edgware Road, Marylebone Road or the Strand.
| Postcodes | W1B, W1C, W1D, W1F, W1G, W1H, W1J, W1K, W1S, W1U, W1W, W2, W9, NW8, SW1A, SW1E, SW1H, SW1P, SW1V, SW1W, SW1Y, WC2E, WC2H, WC2N, WC2R, SW1X, NW1, NW6 |
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| Typical arrival | Usually under an hour |
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Lifting a laden van asks for level, solid ground with room beside the wheel. A hotel service bay, a flat mews yard or a car park deck works, while a cambered cobbled lane off Covent Garden does not. Taking part of the load out helps the jack along. Battery weight puts an electric van above the diesel equivalent, so the rating stamped on the old tyre becomes the floor, and in a silent cab the label's noise figure starts to matter.
Van tyres fitted across Westminster, from Soho to St John's Wood. Call 07473 720871.
