24/7 Emergency Mobile Tyre Fitting in Oxford & Oxfordshire

Late-night, Sunday and bank holiday tyre fitting

Tyre shops in Oxfordshire close in the evening and most are shut on Sundays and bank holidays, which is exactly when a lot of punctures and blowouts happen. There is no 24-hour tyre shop to drive to, so the van comes to you instead: late at night, early on a Sunday morning, on Christmas Day, wherever the car is.

An out-of-hours call works exactly like a daytime one. You ring or WhatsApp, we agree the price for your tyre on the phone before we travel, and we come out with the tyre, the fitting machine and the balancer. There is no call-out charge at any hour.

• Evenings and overnight, every night of the week
• Saturdays and Sundays, same response as weekdays
• Bank holidays, Christmas and New Year
• Emergency puncture repair where the damage is repairable under BS AU 159

What to do while you wait

If you are on a motorway or a dual carriageway, this matters more than anything else on this page. Pull as far left as you can, put the hazards on, and get everyone out through the nearside doors and behind the safety barrier, up the bank, away from the traffic. Do not stand in front of or behind the vehicle, and do not attempt to change the wheel yourself on the hard shoulder — a surprising number of serious injuries happen exactly that way. Leave animals in the car unless it is unsafe to do so.

On an ordinary road, get onto a verge, into a lay-by or into an entrance if you possibly can, and put a warning triangle out well back if it is safe to walk there. At night, a hi-vis makes a genuine difference to how early an approaching driver sees you.

Then call us, and tell us exactly where you are. Marker posts on the motorway, a junction number, a pub name, a what3words reference — anything that lets us drive straight to you instead of hunting.

Blowouts, potholes and kerbs

A blowout at speed is almost always the end of the tyre, and usually a sudden one. The common causes are running badly underinflated for a long period, which overheats and destroys the sidewall from the inside, an impact that has already broken cords weeks earlier, or simple age — rubber perishes whether or not the car is driven.

Pothole damage is the Oxfordshire speciality, particularly on the rural B-roads after a hard winter. A sharp-edged hole hit at speed pinches the tyre between the rim and the edge, which cuts the inner liner and frequently buckles the alloy at the same time. The tell-tale is a bulge or an egg in the sidewall appearing a day or two later. That bulge is a broken cord bundle. It is not repairable, it is not cosmetic, and it can let go without warning — replace it.

Kerbing tends to damage the shoulder and the bead area. Even where it looks superficial, a shoulder cut deep enough to reach the cords is outside the repairable area of the tyre, so it needs replacing rather than patching.

Will you have my size?

We carry a working stock of the sizes that turn up most often on Oxfordshire roads — the common 15, 16 and 17 inch fitments that cover the bulk of family cars, hatchbacks and small vans. If your size is in the van, you are back on the road in one visit.

Nobody carries everything, and we will not pretend otherwise. Larger and lower-profile fitments, unusual load ratings, van-specific sizes and run-flats sometimes need sourcing. When that happens we tell you straight away on the phone — how long it will take, and what the options are in the meantime. Depending on the car that might be fitting your spare or space-saver so you can get home tonight and doing the real tyre tomorrow.

• Give us the full sidewall code, e.g. 205/55 R16 91V
• Tell us if the car has run-flats or TPMS sensors
• Tell us if it is a van — load ratings differ and matter legally
• Mention if the alloy also looks buckled, so we can advise

Space-savers and the limits of your spare

If you have a space-saver and you can fit it safely where you are, it will get you off a dangerous road. Remember what it is, though: almost all are restricted to 50 mph and a limited distance, they change the handling and braking balance of the car noticeably, and on some vehicles driving any distance with a mismatched rolling radius is hard on the differential or the four-wheel-drive system.

A space-saver is a way of reaching somewhere safe. It is not a tyre, and it should not still be on the car next week.