Driving in Canterbury, and what it means for your tyres
The medieval centre inside the walls is mostly closed to traffic, so driving in Canterbury means the ring road, which follows the line of the walls and gets busy around the Wincheap and Rheims Way junctions. Short distances, lots of roundabouts and queues add up to front tyre wear.
The A2 runs south of the city towards Dover and the Channel ports, carrying a lot of lorry traffic, and when there are delays at the ports the knock-on queues can spread across east Kent. A fitter who comes to you means not getting caught up in them.
Canterbury has no Clean Air Zone charge. Around the city, Kent lanes through orchards and villages are narrow and often muddy with farm traffic, and the coast at Whitstable and Herne Bay brings sea air that is hard on rims and valves.
Mobile tyre fitting in Canterbury
Many homes around Canterbury have drives, and the university campuses and business parks have large car parks a fitter can use with permission. Choose your spot, and the fitter arrives with your tyres, fits and balances them where the car is and takes the old ones away.
Workshop fitting near Canterbury
If you would rather drop the car off, workshops on the network around Canterbury list their distance and their fitted price before you book. A garage is the right place for an alignment check.
Where this page covers
Roughly 6 miles around the centre of Canterbury, across CT1, CT2, CT4.
Areas: City centre, Northgate, Wincheap, Thanington, St Dunstan's, St Stephen's, Hales Place, Barton, Harbledown, Rough Common, Sturry, Bridge
Main roads: A2, M2, A28, A257, A290, A291