Mobile Tyre Fitting in Southend-on-Sea
Southend's own Local Plan says the city is only accessible from the west, so a flat on the A127 or the A13 has nowhere to divert to. We bring the tyre to you, from the Westcliff cliff roads to Thorpe Bay, seven days a week.
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CityGrip Recovery fits tyres at the roadside and on driveways across Southend-on-Sea, covering SS0 Westcliff, SS1 central Southend and Thorpe Bay, and SS2 Prittlewell, Southchurch and the airport side. Call 07960 200253 and the price is agreed on the phone before anyone sets off. Mobile tyre fitting starts at £140 on ordinary and urban roads, which covers almost every Southend address and side street, rising to £250 to £750 only where a fast dual carriageway needs live-traffic safety procedure. There is no call-out fee. If the wheel or hub is too damaged to take a new tyre, car recovery and towing starts at £80. Jump starts are £60, and non-fault accident recovery costs the claimant nothing.
Two roads in, no way round: how the peninsula shapes a tyre call
Southend sits at the tip of a peninsula, and the council states in its Local Plan that the town is only accessible from the west. The A127 runs 23 miles down from Gallows Corner in Havering, crossing the M25 at Junction 29 and passing Basildon and the A1245 before it reaches Kent Elms Corner. The A13 comes in along the coast through Hadleigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Chalkwell and Westcliff as London Road, a dense high street with bus traffic and constant signals. There is no orbital and no bypass. When one arterial stops, the other one fills up, and a driver with a deflating tyre rarely has the option of slipping off the road and rejoining further along. You are committed to the corridor you are on until the next signalised junction.
That matters because of the volumes involved. The Department for Transport recorded 391 million vehicle miles driven on Southend's roads in 2025, 324.1 million of them by cars and taxis, all carried on a network of 457.3km of which only 33.9km is A road. If you feel a tyre going down, get out of the running lane at the first safe opportunity, put the hazards on, and get everyone out on the side away from traffic and behind a barrier or fence where one exists. Do not stand between your car and moving traffic, and do not start loosening nuts in a live lane.
When you ring 07960 200253, the two things that speed everything up are the junction name and the tyre size. Locals navigate by junction, not by postcode, so "westbound A127 just past The Bell" or "Bridgwater Drive, first side road off Kent Elms" gets a van moving faster than a six-digit postcode on a dual carriageway. Read the size off the sidewall, for example 205/55 R16 91V, and tell us whether the car has a spare, a locking wheel nut, or run-flat tyres. That is what decides whether we bring a tyre, a wheel or a truck.
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Kent Elms to Cuckoo Corner: the A127 stretch with no hard shoulder
Inside the city the A127 is not the road drivers know from further west. It drops from 70mph to 40mph roughly three miles out and becomes a signal-controlled urban dual carriageway called Prince Avenue. Eastbound the sequence is Kent Elms Corner, the Tesco Roundabout at Nestuda Way, The Bell at Rochford Road and Hobleythick Lane, Progress Road, then Cuckoo Corner where the road turns south into Victoria Avenue and finishes at the A13 next to Southend Victoria station. Every one of those junctions has been rebuilt in the last fifteen years, Kent Elms in a £5.1m scheme completed in 2018 and The Bell in a £5m scheme completed in 2021. What none of them has is a hard shoulder.
So a blowout on Prince Avenue means limping to the nearest side road rather than stopping where it happened. From Kent Elms that is Bridgwater Drive or Rayleigh Road. From the Tesco Roundabout it is Nestuda Way. At The Bell it is Rochford Road or Hobleythick Lane. At Cuckoo Corner it is Manners Way north or Priory Crescent east. Driving a few hundred metres on a flat will finish the tyre off, but the tyre is already scrap and a wheel costs less than sitting in a live lane. Note too that the Prince Avenue section has historically been signed as an urban clearway with no-stopping windows, so read the signs where you land.
This stretch is also one of the most heavily camera-enforced roads in the city, with a 40mph Gatso in the central reservation just before the Progress Road lights Southend-bound, a 30mph Gatso just after Progress Road past the Mercedes garage, a Truvelo 320 metres east of the lights and a 40mph traffic-light camera on The Bell junction outside the Shell garage. We will be straight with you: if you are stuck in a running lane on Prince Avenue in the eastbound evening peak, we would rather recover the car to a side street or your driveway from £80 and fit the tyre there than open a toolbox next to 40mph traffic with nowhere to stand.
Better Queensway: tyres in a town centre being rebuilt around you
The biggest roadworks in Southend for decades started on 8 December 2025. Better Queensway is filling in the 1960s underpass and raising it to street level as a dual carriageway, shrinking the roundabout, removing the footbridge in favour of ground-level crossings, installing underground rainwater storage and building cycle routes from Victoria station to the seafront. Queensway and both the north-west and north-east slip roads are closed from Short Street and Chichester Road through to Porters Grange roundabout, notified from 8 December 2025 to 30 January 2027, with Phase 1 running at least 22 months.
Queensway existed to let the A13 skirt the pedestrianised High Street, so while it is shut that traffic has to go somewhere. It goes onto Victoria Avenue, Chichester Road, Southchurch Road and residential streets that were never built to carry it. For a tyre call inside the inner relief road, give us the nearest crossroads and a landmark rather than the postcode alone, because a satnav route that assumes Queensway is open is no use to anyone. Tell us which side of the closure you are on.
This is also the area with the heaviest commuter pressure. Southend Central on the c2c line recorded 2.242 million entries and exits in 2024/25 and Southend Victoria on the Greater Anglia branch recorded 1.386 million, and both sit inside the town centre. A flat found in a station car park at 06:30 is a routine call here. If you are catching a train regardless, say so on the phone, and we can work out whether the car can wait for you or needs moving before the bays are enforced.
Milton, Kursaal and Victoria: fitting on a kerb where every space is taken
Southend is dense. The 2021 Census put the population at 180,700, up 4.1% on 2011, making it the third most densely populated of the East of England's 45 local authority areas. The density is very unevenly spread. North of the railway you get wide interwar avenues with driveways, which are the easiest jobs we do. In the Milton, Kursaal and Victoria wards you get Victorian and Edwardian terraces largely subdivided into flats, and the numbers show what that does to kerbs: car ownership averages 1.09 per household across the borough but 1.31 for houses against 0.65 for flats, falling to 0.69 in Southend Central.
In practice, we need roughly a working strip beside the affected wheel to get a jack under the sill, break the bead and swing a wheel out. If the car is wedged between two others with inches to spare, we will usually ask you to roll it forward or back a length, or to move it into a nearby bay. On-street parking inside the inner relief road is pay and display from 8am to 8pm seven days a week, alongside Controlled Parking Zones with residents' permits priced by CO2 emissions and fuel type, so a resident's driveway, a suspended bay or an off-peak spell is nearly always the calmer option.
These streets are also where a lot of the damage originates. Southend's network carries 23,467 road drains, and sunken or proud gully covers sitting right on the kerb line are a classic cause of pinch damage to a sidewall when a car is parked or pulled in tight at night. If you found the tyre flat in the morning and there is a clean pinch mark or a bulge low on the sidewall rather than a nail in the tread, that is usually the story.
Western Esplanade and Marine Parade: the stretch we will not jack a car on
A kilometre of Western Esplanade and Marine Parade was rebuilt as shared space, with the guardrails and pelican crossings taken out, high-quality paving laid, flush kerbs and pedestrians given equal priority. Southend was the first local authority in the UK to enforce a 20mph limit there using average speed cameras. Eastern Esplanade east of the centre is also signed 20mph shared space, running as the B1016 past the Grade II listed Kursaal. It is a fine piece of seafront and a poor place to work on a car: there is no kerb upstand to define a safe strip, no barrier between you and pedestrians, and people walking across at any point.
The seafront also has a diary of its own. Southend takes over 7 million day visitors and over 250,000 longer-stay visitors a year across seven miles of coastline and nine beaches, with the pier running 1.33 miles out into the estuary. Parking bays on Marine Parade and Western Esplanade and the Eastern Esplanade car park get suspended for events such as the Halloween Parade, and Marine Parade between the Three Shells and the Kursaal is handed over to motorcycle parking for the Easter Shakedown. On those days there is often physically nowhere to put a van beside your car.
Then there is the water. The Environment Agency flood alert area runs from Thorpe Esplanade to Chalkwell Esplanade and takes in Southchurch Park, and during Storm Franklin the sea came over the beach onto Western Esplanade. Shingle, sand and salt water on a flush-kerbed carriageway is not a surface to put jack stands on. Our normal answer on the seafront is to move the car a short distance into a side street off the Esplanade or into a car park, then fit the tyre properly there.
The 40mm rule, and why Southend side streets take tyres out
Southend-on-Sea City Council's intervention level for a carriageway pothole is 40mm deep by 300mm long. Anything shallower than that is not automatically repaired. That is exactly the depth band that splits a sidewall, kinks a rim or knocks a wheel out of true when it is taken at 30mph on an unlit residential road, which is why so many Southend tyre calls involve a hole nobody would call dramatic to look at.
The condition data explains where it happens. The 2024 survey rated unclassified roads 23.82% red, 57.92% amber and only 18.26% green, against 9.10% red for A roads. Unclassified roads are 83% of the 457.3km network, so most of the city's side streets sit in amber or worse. Repair volumes have fallen too: 3,469 potholes filled in 2020/21 and 3,277 in 2021/22 during the Find and Fix era, down to 1,447 in 2022/23, 1,822 in 2023/24 and 1,278 in 2024/25, with around 2,000 planned for 2025/26. The 2025/26 resurfacing list includes Wimborne Road in Kursaal, Manners Way in St Laurence, Eastern Avenue in Prittlewell, Sutton Road in St Lukes and The Broadway in Thorpe.
Three more local features chew tyres. The 20mph pilot areas in the Thorpe, Leigh and West Leigh wards were built with raised tables, speed humps, speed cushions and kerb-line buildouts under a £500,000 DfT capital grant, and speed cushions are a well-known scuffing hazard for wide or low-profile tyres taken at the wrong angle. Land falls from roughly 45m above ordnance datum in the west to roughly 7m in the east, and the council's own surface water work describes those slopes as ideal flow paths, so grit and broken material washes down and settles along kerb lines at the bottom. And the cliff frontages are London Clay with a long history of slope movement, which is why clifftop and cliff-slope roads such as Belton Way East crack and settle and need piling and stabilisation.
Repairable or scrap: what we can legally fix on a Westcliff or Southchurch driveway
The legal minimum tread depth for cars in the UK is 1.6mm across the central three-quarters of the tread and around the entire circumference, and the penalty applies per tyre, so a set that is all marginal is an expensive stop. A tyre also has to be free of cuts or bulges over a certain size and free of exposed cord or ply. We check all four when we are there, because it is common to find one tyre destroyed by a pothole and its pair already close to the limit.
Not every puncture can be repaired, and we will tell you which yours is before you pay. A repair is only permitted within the central portion of the tread, the minor repair area. Damage in the shoulder or sidewall is never repairable. Nor is a tyre that has been driven on while flat, because the internal structure will have been broken up even if the outside looks intact, which is worth knowing if you have just limped from Kent Elms to Cuckoo Corner. Exposed cords, a cut longer than the permitted size, perished rubber and repairs that would overlap an existing one all mean replacement. A plug pushed in from the outside without removing the tyre is not a permanent repair, whatever the kit in the boot claims.
Run-flats add a further rule: whether a run-flat can be repaired at all depends on the manufacturer, and once one has been driven on with no pressure the reinforced sidewall has usually done its job and is finished. If your car came without a spare, which most run-flat cars do, then a mobile fit is genuinely the only way it moves again without a truck. Tell us on the phone that the car is on run-flats and give us the size, because we confirm availability for the less common fitments before anyone sets off, and the price is agreed at that point.
Airport Retail Park, Temple Farm and Thorpe Bay: where we fit, and when a tow wins
The practical, legal places to work in Southend are the ones with room and no live traffic. Retail park car parks such as Airport Retail Park at SS2 6FW, on the roundabout where Manners Way meets Rochford Road beside London Southend Airport, have free customer parking and space to swing a wheel. Industrial estate roads suit vans: Temple Farm off Sutton Road in SS2 5 has internal roads including Craftsman Square, Journeymans Way, Coopers Way and Potters Way and several hundred businesses, plenty of them motor trade, and Aviation Way sits on the SS2 6 side by the airport. Station car parks including Thorpe Bay and Southend Central work, as do the ANPR car parks at Southend University Hospital on Prittlewell Chase, SS0 0RY, reached via Fairfax Drive.
The airport side of town has become its own category of call. London Southend was the UK's fastest-growing airport in 2025, roughly tripling to about 720,000 passengers and climbing from 26th to 22nd busiest after easyJet opened its tenth UK base there with three based A320neos. That means far more early-morning and late-night runs down Nestuda Way, St Laurence Way and Manners Way, and more drivers who find a flat at 04:30 with a check-in time they cannot move. If you tell us that on the phone, we will tell you honestly whether a fit or a lift is the faster route to you making the flight.
Sometimes recovery is simply the better job. If the rim is cracked or badly buckled, if the hub or suspension took the hit as well as the tyre, if the car is on a stretch of Royal Artillery Way or the seafront shared space where there is no safe working space, or if the size we would need is not something anyone is fitting at 2am, then towing the car from £80 to your driveway in Thorpe Bay, Prittlewell or Southchurch and dealing with it in daylight beats a rushed roadside fit. It is the same phone call either way: 07960 200253, price agreed before we move, no call-out fee.
How we decide whether a tyre in Southend-on-Sea can be repaired, and when it cannot
Not every flat tyre in Southend-on-Sea can be repaired. We assess the damage against BS AU 159, the British Standard for repairs to tyres for motor vehicles used on the public highway, and we assess tread against Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. If the tyre falls outside those limits we will tell you it needs replacing rather than patch it and hand it back. Mobile tyre fitting on ordinary roads starts from £140. On a motorway or hard shoulder it is £250 to £750, because the work is done alongside live traffic and takes more time, more equipment and more care.
The repairable area is measured, not guessed
BS AU 159 sets a repairable band across the tread as a percentage of the tyre’s nominal section width: 60% up to and including 155mm, 65% over 155mm up to 200mm, and 70% over 200mm. On a 205 section tyre that is a 144mm band; on a 225 it is 158mm. Damage outside that band is not repairable. It is not the same thing as the “central three quarters” wording in the tread depth law, which is the mix-up most tyre pages make.
Maximum injury size, and why the tyre comes off the wheel
Measured at the base of the injury after preparation, the maximum diameter of penetration damage is 6mm. The standard requires the tyre to be removed from the wheel and inspected inside and out before any repair, because the damage that decides the answer is often only visible from the inside. A plug pushed into a tyre that is still on the rim is not a repair the standard recognises.
What the standard does not accept
Liquid sealants, externally applied plugs, an inner tube fitted into a tubeless tyre and temporary repairs all sit outside BS AU 159. Sidewall damage beyond cosmetic scuffing is not approved for repair at all. There is no limit on the number of minor repairs inside the repairable band provided the patches do not overlap, and a tyre repaired correctly keeps its original speed and load capabilities.
Tread depth and the law
Regulation 27 requires at least 1.6mm of tread depth throughout a continuous band covering the central three quarters of the breadth of tread, right round the tyre. A cut over 25mm, or 10% of the section width if that is greater, deep enough to reach the ply or cord makes the tyre illegal, as does any lump, bulge or tear caused by separation, or any exposed cord. In the MOT, tread below the requirement is recorded as a Dangerous defect. TyreSafe puts the penalty at up to £2,500 and three penalty points, per tyre.
TPMS, explained properly
Direct TPMS uses a battery powered sensor inside each wheel, each with its own ID that has to be registered to the car so it knows which sensor is where. Indirect TPMS has no sensors and infers a soft tyre from wheel speed through the ABS, so it needs resetting and a period of driving to relearn after a tyre change. Sensor batteries are sealed in, typically last five to ten years and cannot be replaced separately, so a sensor that dies during a wheel change means a new sensor. On an M1 car first used on or after 1 January 2012, a TPMS malfunction is a Major MOT defect, so we tell you at the roadside rather than let you find out at the test.
Run-flats and locking wheel nuts
Bridgestone rates its run-flat technology for up to 50 miles at up to 50mph after a loss of pressure, and run-flats need TPMS to work, because you cannot feel the deflation. Once a run-flat has been driven on while flat it is replaced, not repaired, because the internal damage cannot be seen. For a lost locking wheel nut key we try a master key set first, which takes the nut off undamaged. If the nut is rounded or the pattern is unknown, a reverse threaded extractor socket grips and removes it, but the nut is destroyed doing so and needs replacing.
When we will not fit or repair at the roadside in Southend-on-Sea
- Any position on a live carriageway where working alongside traffic is not safe. We recover the vehicle to somewhere safe and fit it there instead.
- Damage outside the repairable band, or a penetration larger than 6mm measured at the base after preparation.
- Sidewall damage beyond cosmetic scuffing, and any tyre with exposed cords, a lump, bulge or tear from separation, or belt separation.
- Any tyre that has been driven on while flat, run-flats included, because of the secondary damage that cannot be inspected away.
- Tread already below 1.6mm across the legal band, a broken bead core, liner deterioration, solvent contamination, or an earlier repair that falls outside the standard.
- A replacement whose load index or speed rating is below the vehicle manufacturer’s specification. Fitting one is a Major MOT defect, and a load rating insufficient for the axle weight is a Dangerous one, so we source the correct tyre rather than fit what is nearest.
Wheel nuts and bolts go back to the vehicle manufacturer’s torque figure with a calibrated torque wrench, in a star pattern, in stages. Judging by feel or finishing with an impact gun risks stretched or snapped studs, distorted brake discs and cracked alloys. The familiar re-torque intervals, 30 minutes stationary or 40 to 80km of driving, come from commercial vehicle guidance rather than car law, but we will re-check on request.
If a tyre cannot be repaired and we do not carry the right size for your vehicle, we say so on the phone before setting off rather than after arriving. Where a roadside fit is not the safe answer, recovery is: we are a vehicle recovery firm first, so the car can be moved rather than left where it is.
CityGrip Recovery, Leyton, London E10. We are based in Leyton and drive to Southend-on-Sea. Questions before you book: 07960 200253. Standards and prices on this page last checked 8 August 2026.
Southend-on-Sea FAQs
How much does mobile tyre fitting cost in Southend-on-Sea?
Mobile tyre fitting starts at £140 on ordinary and urban roads, which covers residential Southend, the town centre, retail parks and industrial estates. The £250 to £750 band applies only where a fast dual carriageway needs live-traffic safety procedure, such as the 70mph A127 west of the city or the 50mph Royal Artillery Way. We set the band on the phone once we know exactly where you are, and there is no call-out fee.
I have a blowout on Prince Avenue between Kent Elms and The Bell. What should I do?
Do not stop in a running lane. There is no hard shoulder anywhere on the A127 inside Southend, so drive slowly to the nearest side road: Bridgwater Drive or Rayleigh Road at Kent Elms, Nestuda Way at the Tesco Roundabout, or Rochford Road and Hobleythick Lane at The Bell. The tyre will be ruined, but it was already scrap. Then get everyone out on the pavement side and call 07960 200253.
Can you fit a tyre on Royal Artillery Way?
Royal Artillery Way is 50mph and the fastest road inside the city boundary, with a northbound safety camera on the climb from Bournes Green roundabout. It is not a road we would choose to work on. Where we can, we will move the car off at Bournes Green roundabout or up to Eastern Avenue and fit there, or recover it from £80. If a live-traffic procedure is genuinely needed, that is the higher price band and we say so before setting off.
Can my puncture be repaired, or do I have to buy a new tyre?
It depends where the damage is. Repairs are only permitted within the central portion of the tread. Anything in the shoulder or sidewall, any exposed cord, a cut over the permitted size, or a tyre that has been driven on flat means replacement. We remove the tyre and inspect the inside rather than plugging it from the outside, and we tell you which it is before you pay.
Do you work on the seafront at Western Esplanade or Marine Parade?
Not on the carriageway itself. That kilometre is shared space with flush kerbs, no guardrails and no pelican crossings, pedestrians have equal priority and Southend was the first UK authority to enforce a 20mph limit there with average speed cameras. There is no safe working strip. We move the car into a side street off the Esplanade or a nearby car park and fit it there instead.
Can you come to a Controlled Parking Zone bay in central Southend?
Yes. On-street bays inside the inner relief road are pay and display from 8am to 8pm every day, with residents' permit schemes alongside them. The practical issue is usually space rather than permission: if the car is wedged tight between two others we will ask you to roll it forward or back so we can get a jack under the sill and swing the wheel out.
I have lost the locking wheel nut key. Can you still change the wheel?
Tell us on the phone before we set off, because it changes what we bring. A missing key means the nut has to be removed with a specialist extractor rather than a socket, and on a corroded coastal car that can take time. If it cannot be shifted safely at the roadside, recovering the car from £80 to a driveway and dealing with it properly there is usually quicker than fighting it on a Southend kerb.
Do you fit run-flat tyres, and can a run-flat be repaired?
We fit run-flats, and it is worth saying that most run-flat cars carry no spare at all, so a mobile fit is the only thing that gets you moving. Whether a run-flat can be repaired depends on the manufacturer, and once one has been driven on with no pressure the reinforced sidewall has done its job and the tyre is finished. Give us the full size from the sidewall when you call.
My TPMS warning light stayed on after the new tyre went on. Why?
Usually it needs a relearn cycle, either automatic after a short drive or triggered with a tool, and sometimes it is a sensor that has failed rather than a pressure fault. Sensors have a service life and their valve stems corrode, which is a fair consideration on a coastal city with seven miles of shoreline and winter salting on top. We check the sensor when the tyre is off rather than after refitting.
Better Queensway is closed. Will that delay you getting to me?
It affects the route rather than the service. Queensway and both slip roads are closed from Short Street and Chichester Road to Porters Grange roundabout, notified through to 30 January 2027, so A13 through-traffic is now on Victoria Avenue, Southchurch Road and residential streets. When you call, give us the nearest crossroads and a landmark and tell us which side of the closure you are on. That is more useful than a postcode right now.
Can you meet me at Airport Retail Park or near London Southend Airport?
Yes. Airport Retail Park at SS2 6FW, on the roundabout where Manners Way meets Rochford Road, has free customer parking and room to work, which makes it one of the easier locations on that side of the city. We also cover Aviation Way and the roads around the terminal. Airport traffic has grown sharply since easyJet based aircraft there, so early-morning and late-night calls are routine for us.
Do you cover Temple Farm Industrial Estate and Sutton Road for van tyres?
Yes, including Craftsman Square, Journeymans Way, Coopers Way and Potters Way in SS2 5. Estate roads carry HGV and van movements, kerb overrun and site debris, so punctures there are often from something picked up rather than a pothole. Sutton Road itself is named by the council as a congestion hotspot and was on the 2025/26 resurfacing programme, so tell us which end of it you are on.
Can you come to The Broadway car park in Thorpe Bay?
Yes. The council car park beside Thorpe Bay station has 34 spaces including two accessible bays, one pay and display machine and phone payment, and on-street parking in the surrounding roads is limited. It is a workable spot but it fills, so if a commuter train has just come in, park where we can actually get a van alongside the affected wheel and let us know the bay.
How far can I drive on the space saver spare from Bournes Green roundabout?
Space savers are normally limited to 50mph and a restricted mileage set by the manufacturer, printed on the wheel or in the handbook. That is enough to get off the A1159 and into a side road, not enough to keep using the car for the week. Handling and braking are affected too, which matters on the 20mph raised tables and speed cushions in the Thorpe ward streets nearby.
A pothole on a Southend side street destroyed my tyre. What can I do?
Report the defect to Southend-on-Sea City Council and keep evidence. Their carriageway intervention level is 40mm deep by 300mm long, so photograph the hole with something for scale, note the exact street and the date and time, and keep the damaged tyre and any invoice. Unclassified roads were 23.82% red in the 2024 survey, so you are unlikely to be the first person to have reported that one.
Can you help at Southend University Hospital or Roots Hall?
Yes to both. The hospital on Prittlewell Chase, SS0 0RY has six vehicle entrances and ANPR-controlled car parks, and Prittlewell Chase has metered street parking nearby that absorbs overflow, so there is usually somewhere workable. Roots Hall on Victoria Avenue is tighter, with limited street parking on matchdays and active ticketing, so tell us if a game has just finished and we will plan the approach accordingly.
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Flat tyre between Kent Elms and Thorpe Bay?
Call 07960 200253 with the junction name and the size off your sidewall. Mobile tyre fitting from £140, recovery from £80 if the wheel is too far gone to take a tyre, no call-out fee, and the price agreed on the phone before anyone sets off.