Mobile mechanic in Southborough

Southborough from Tunbridge Wells

Two miles up the London Road from the centre of Tunbridge Wells, under ten minutes door to door.

If you live in Southborough you are about as close to Andy's base as it is possible to be, and it shows in how quickly a job gets done. The town is strung along the A26 London Road between the Common at the top and the edge of Tunbridge Wells at the bottom, with the Victorian terraces and the between-the-wars semis running off it on both sides, Holden Park Road, Yew Tree Road, Pennington Road, Speldhurst Road, and the newer closes tucked behind them. Most of those houses have a drive or a hard standing at the front, and a hard standing is all a mobile mechanic needs: he parks the van across the end of it, gets the car on stands, and does the service or the brakes or the repair there while you get on with your morning. The terraces closer to the road are tighter, and on those he will ask about parking before he comes so that he is not blocking a neighbour or working on a camber. High Brooms sits alongside, with the station car park, the industrial units off North Farm Road and Longfield Road, and the Sainsbury's end of things, and cars get worked on in all of them given a level bay and the site's permission. The Common itself is a pleasant place to break down on a Sunday walk and a poor place to change a wheel bearing, so if your car has stopped up there, ring, and he will come and look before deciding whether it moves under its own power or on the back of something.

Driveways and hard standings

Off London Road on both sides, most houses have somewhere to park the car off the road. That is all the job needs: a level spot and the keys. Tight terraces near the main road: he checks the parking with you first.

High Brooms

The station car park and the units off North Farm Road and Longfield Road. Servicing, brakes, diagnostics and most repairs, done during the working day with the site's say-so.