Mobile tyre fitting and recovery in GU35 (Bordon)
Bordon was a garrison town for a century and is being rebuilt into something else, and the roads show it. New estate roads meet old military ones, construction traffic is constant, and building sites shed exactly the kind of debris that ends up in a tyre.
Nails and screws picked up outside a site are the single most common job we do in this district, and most of them are repairable if the tyre has not been driven on flat.
The A325 through Bordon and the B3004
The A325 runs the length of the district from Whitehill through Bordon and on north, carrying both local traffic and a steady flow of lorries. It has been reworked in places as the town has been rebuilt, and the roundabouts and new junctions are still bedding in.
The B3004 heads west towards Alton and the smaller roads run east to Headley, Headley Down and Standford. Those are quieter, but they are edged with sandy heath and the verges will not hold a jack. Oakhanger and Kingsley sit out on lanes where a pin is more use than an address.
Where we work in GU35
The district takes in Bordon, Headley, Headley Down, Kingsley, Lindford, Oakhanger, Standford and Whitehill.
Anywhere near active construction, expect to find more than one thing in the tyre — we check the whole tread rather than pulling out the obvious nail and calling it finished.
Questions we get asked about GU35
- I have picked up a screw outside a building site.
- Leave it in the tyre. Pulling it out lets the air go and turns a slow leak into a flat before we arrive. If the object sits in the central tread and the tyre has not been run flat, it is very often a proper repairable puncture.
- Can you repair a tyre rather than replace it?
- Where the damage allows, always. A repair has to be in the tread zone, within size limits, and the tyre must not have been driven flat. We inspect the inside of the tyre before deciding, because that is the only way to see the real damage.
- Do you work on the new estates in Bordon?
- Yes, and they are easy ground for us — wide roads, driveways and firm surfaces. If the road is so new that satellite navigation does not have it, send a pin or give us the nearest older road and we will find you.
Tyre trouble in Bordon?
Call and describe what is in the tyre and whether you have driven on it. Those two answers usually tell us whether this is a repair or a replacement.