Service area
WD6 service area
Working vehicles dominate this district. Elstree Way and Centennial Park are wall-to-wall units with vans in and out all day, and the studios keep a steady traffic of production vehicles that are loaded heavy and parked on hard standing for days at a time.
Heavy and stationary is a bad combination for tyres. Van tyres carrying a full load flat-spot and lose pressure quietly, and a lot of what we deal with in Borehamwood is a driver finding one soft wheel on a Monday morning with a full day booked.
The residential side is Shenley Road and the estates off it, plus the climb up Deacons Hill. Elstree village itself is on Watling Street, which is fast, narrow through the cutting and unforgiving of a wheel that wanders left.
Stirling Corner puts this district three minutes from EN5 and about the same from the A1, so we treat Borehamwood and Barnet as one run.
Key facts
- District
- WD6
- Places listed
- 9
- Nearest trunk road
- A1 at Stirling Corner, with A5183 Watling Street
- Drive band
- Core
- close band, reached through Stirling Corner or Barnet Lane
- Based at
- Potter's Bar, Hertfordshire
Places in WD6
| Place | Nearest main road |
|---|---|
| Borehamwood | A5135 Shenley Road |
| Borehamwood Shopping Park | A5135 Shenley Road |
| Centennial Park (Elstree) | Centennial Avenue, off Elstree Hill South |
| Deacons Hill (Borehamwood) | Deacons Hill Road |
| Elstree | A5183 Watling Street |
| Elstree Aerodrome | Aldenham Road |
| Elstree Studios | A5135 Shenley Road |
| Elstree Way Industrial Estate (Borehamwood) | A5135 Elstree Way |
| Well End (Hertfordshire) | Barnet Lane |
Vans and load ratings
A van tyre carries a load index and a speed rating that a car tyre of the same size may not. Fitting the wrong one is an insurance problem as well as a safety one. Give us the size off the wall and what the vehicle carries, and we will match the rating rather than the number.
WD6: give us the road and the tyre size
Call and tell us where the vehicle is standing and what is on the sidewall. If the size has gone with the tyre, the make, model and year will do. We confirm what we are bringing before the van moves.