Mobile tyres and recovery in KT24 (the Horsleys and Effingham)
Four settlements, one long road and a great many lanes. KT24 strings East Horsley, West Horsley, Effingham and Effingham Junction along the A246 below the North Downs, and almost everything that happens here happens within half a mile of it.
The lanes off that road are the interesting part for us. They are narrow, hedged, and edged with flint and chalk from the Downs, and they take a steady toll on tyres and alloy wheels.
The A246 and the lanes off it
The A246 is the spine. It moves quickly between the villages, and the side turnings appear without much warning, which is how a good number of wheels in this district meet a kerb.
North of the road, Ockham Road runs down towards Effingham Junction and the lanes narrow to a car and a half wide with deep verges. If you have stopped on one of those, position matters more than usual: we need to get a van past you or park behind you with lights on, and there is rarely room for both. South of the A246 the ground climbs, and a jack on a sloping verge is a job we will decline in favour of moving the car first.
The KT24 places we come out to
We attend East Horsley, Effingham, Effingham Junction and West Horsley.
Effingham Junction station is the easiest landmark to direct us to if you are somewhere on the lanes and unsure of the road name.
Questions we get asked about KT24
- Can you find me on an unnamed lane near West Horsley?
- Send a pin from your phone's map, or a what3words if you have the app. Road names are unreliable out here and hedges hide the signs. A dropped pin gets our driver to within a few yards, which on these lanes matters.
- My alloy is kerbed as well as the tyre being flat.
- We deal with the tyre and tell you honestly what the wheel looks like. A scuffed rim is cosmetic; a bent or cracked rim will not hold air with a new tyre on it. If the wheel is beyond use, we will say so rather than fit a tyre that will fail.
- Do you attend Effingham Junction in the early morning?
- Yes. Early trains mean early problems, and we work through the night and into the morning. If you find a flat before a commute, ring us — it is often quicker to have us out than to sort a spare in the dark.
Tyre trouble on the A246?
Call with a pin or the nearest village, and tell us whether you are on the main road or a lane. Those are two different jobs and we plan them differently.