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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Awsworth
Awsworth, Shilo Way and the viaduct end of the valley — any hour.
Maximum 60 minute response. We have drivers across England and Wales, so a call gets a fitter to the vehicle rather than you moving a car that is not safe to move. Call 07989 606060 with your tyre size and location.
Awsworth stands on the Nottinghamshire side of the Erewash, on ground well above the flood plain that begins at the foot of Newton's Lane. Four roads meet at the bottom of the village — The Lane, Awsworth Lane, Westby Lane and Newton's Lane — and Main Street runs north from that corner. Every one of them is thirty.
What passes the village is a different proposition. The A6096 runs as Shilo Way and Gin Close Way at fifty, dual carriageway for part of its length alongside Awsworth, and it lies between the houses and the Bennerley Viaduct on the far side. That viaduct is why most people who are not from here end up parked in Awsworth at all.
Roads and places we get called to around Awsworth
- Shilo Way and Gin Close Way — the A6096, fifty and dual in places.
- Main Street and The Lane through the middle, both thirty.
- Newton's Lane down to the canal, and Awsworth Road beyond it over the boundary.
- Awsworth Lane and Westby Lane east towards Kimberley and Cossall.
- The viaduct visitor car park, signed off Shilo Way.
- The recreation ground and the newer building on the western edge.
The viaduct car park
Bennerley Viaduct is wrought iron rather than brick or stone, listed at Grade II*, and by the reckoning of the trust that runs it one of only two of its kind left in the country. It carries a walking and cycling route across the valley now, and the visitor car park for it is signed off Shilo Way.
That car park is run for the trust by an independent parking company, with number-plate cameras and charges paid by app or by telephone. It is worth knowing about when you are the one stuck in it, because a camera has no way of telling a driver who walked further than they meant to from a car that is not moving until a wheel comes off. Ring us, then settle the parking end of it separately — those two clocks run independently of each other.
You cannot drive onto it
The deck is a footway and cycleway and nothing else. There is no vehicle access at either end; the approaches are ramps and surfaced paths. People do ring from halfway across, which is a fine place to stand and no use at all as an address.
What we need is the road the vehicle is on. On this side that is Shilo Way or the parking off it; on the Derbyshire side it is the streets behind Cotmanhay. The two ends look adjacent from up on the deck and are a considerable drive apart on the ground.
Down Newton's Lane
Newton's Lane leaves the village westwards, passes under a railway bridge and finishes near the old canal. The parking down there is not a made-up car park in any sense — it is rough ground, used mainly by anglers and by people walking out into the meadows.
The meadows are wet ground with old ponds and flooded workings in them, and the field edges stay heavy for most of the year. The distinction worth drawing on the phone is between the lane, which is a made road, and the parking, which is not. Those are two different jobs at the same postcode.
We also cover Ilkeston across the valley, Eastwood beyond Giltbrook and Kimberley east along Awsworth Lane.
What we can do in Awsworth
- Mobile tyre fitting — supply and fit a replacement at your home, workplace or the roadside, including balancing and disposal of the old casing.
- Mobile puncture repair — where the damage is inside the repairable area of the tread, a repair is cheaper and quicker than replacement.
- Commercial tyre fitting — vans, minibuses and other light commercial vehicles.
Stuck in Awsworth right now? Call 07989 606060 and we will tell you what we can do and what it will cost before we set off.
Before we arrive
- Find your locking wheel nut key. Without it the wheel cannot come off. It is usually in the glovebox, the boot well, or with the spare.
- Read your tyre size off the sidewall, for example 205/55 R16 91V, so we arrive with the right tyre rather than making a second trip.
- If you are on a motorway or dual carriageway, get as far left as you can or into a refuge, then everyone out through the passenger doors, over the barrier and well back from the carriageway — not in the car. Ring with the junction number and your direction of travel.
- Describe where you are, not just your postcode. A junction number, a bay number, a farm, a pub or a bridge puts us on the spot far faster — rural postcodes can cover a mile of near-identical lane. We bring our own lighting, so darkness is not a problem.
More detail in our guides on what to do with a flat tyre on the motorway and checking your tread depth.
Repair or replace
Whether a tyre can be repaired is decided by where the damage is, not by how big the hole looks. Damage inside the central three-quarters of the tread, up to 6mm across, is repairable under BS AU 159. Damage in the shoulder or the sidewall is not, at any size — there is no way to reinforce a sidewall that flexes on every revolution.
The other thing that rules out a repair is having driven on the tyre flat. A short distance is enough: the sidewall folds under the rim and the internal cords break. That often does not deflate the tyre at the time — it shows up days later as a soft rounded bulge, and a tyre in that condition has to be replaced whatever the original puncture looked like.
How the damage was made matters as much as where it is. A nail or a screw pierces, leaving a neat hole that is usually well within the limit. Flint, crushed stone, quarry aggregate and dropped stainless fixings cut instead — a gouge or a tear rather than a puncture — and a cut frequently exceeds the repairable size even when it lands squarely in the middle of the tread. That is why we take the tyre off and look inside before telling you either way, rather than judging it from the outside.
Impact damage behaves the same way. A pothole or a kerb taken at speed compresses the suspension fully and pinches the sidewall between the rim and the obstacle. If that has happened, check both tyres on that side — the rear takes the same hit a fraction of a second after the front — and look for a bulge rather than for a hole.
We carry both outcomes to every job, so a repair that turns out not to be safe does not become a second visit.
Age and wear
Tread depth is not the only thing that retires a tyre. Rubber hardens as it ages whatever the mileage, which is why a caravan, motorhome, trailer or second car can carry almost full tread on a casing that is well past useful life. The four-digit date code on the sidewall gives the week and year it was made — our guide on how long tyres last covers where the line falls.
Depth matters most in standing water. The legal minimum is 1.6mm across the central three-quarters, but a tyre's ability to clear water falls off well above that — by about 3mm you are losing it noticeably, and aquaplaning starts at lower speeds than most drivers expect. Our tread depth guide covers checking it with a 20p coin in about a minute.
Wear patterns are worth reading too. Both outer shoulders going before the middle usually means underinflation, or a lot of cornering and hill descent; one edge alone is more often alignment. We will tell you which it looks like when we are there — see uneven tyre wear for the full picture.
Vans and light commercials
A van needs a tyre carrying the C marking and the correct load index. That is not interchangeable with a passenger tyre of the same nominal size, whatever may have been fitted before — the casing is built to carry more, and a loaded van on passenger-rated tyres is running outside the rating.
Tell us whether the van is loaded when you ring, and we will bring the right fitment first time. Details of what we carry are on the commercial tyres page.
How the repair is done
The wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and the inside of the casing is inspected before anything else happens. The puncture is then repaired from within using a combined plug and patch, and the wheel is balanced before it goes back on.
That inspection is the part that matters. An external plug pushed into the tread without removing the tyre is a get-you-home measure: it can seal the hole while leaving damage inside the casing entirely undetected, and that damage is what causes tyres to fail later at speed. It is the same job a garage does, done where the vehicle already is.
A slow leak with no puncture to find
A tyre that loses air over days with nothing in the tread has usually failed at the seal rather than the surface — a corroded alloy bead seat, or a perished valve stem. Neither can be found with the tyre still on the rim, and neither is fixed by topping the pressure up.
It typically announces itself on the first cold morning of the year. Cold air contracts, dropping the pressure a few PSI, and a leak that was tolerable through mild weather is a visibly flat tyre by the time you come out to the car. The fix is the tyre off the rim, the sealing face cleaned back to sound metal, and a new valve.
Working conditions around Awsworth
Soft ground. A jack lifts by pushing down, so it needs something solid to push against. On turf, verge, gravel or a farm track the foot sinks instead of lifting, and on wet ground it can slide sideways as the weight comes on — which is how a car ends up off a jack. We carry base plates that spread the load, but they have to be on the van before we set off, so mention the surface when you ring and say whether it is wet.
After heavy rain the honest answer is sometimes that the ground will not take a jack at all and the vehicle needs to come onto hard standing first. If the tyre is completely flat that is not possible, which changes the plan again — far better established on the phone than discovered in a field.
Common questions in Awsworth
- My car is in the viaduct car park with a flat tyre.
- Ring with the tyre size and we will come to it. The bays are level and sealed, so it is straightforward work. Deal with the parking charge separately — the cameras there do not know why the car has not moved.
- Can you bring a van onto the viaduct?
- No. The deck takes people on foot and on bikes only, and both approaches are ramps rather than roads. Give us the road the car is standing on instead.
- I am at the bottom of Newton's Lane near the water.
- Say so on the phone. That is rough ground rather than a surfaced car park, and the last few yards into it are what decide how close a van can get.
- I have stopped on the A6096 where it is dual carriageway.
- Tell us your direction of travel and whether you are past the turning for the viaduct. It is fifty along there with nothing built in to stop on, so get as far onto the verge as the ground allows first.
- Do you cover Cossall, Newthorpe and Giltbrook?
- Yes, across NG16 and over the boundary into DE7.
Not in Awsworth?
We cover the rest of Nottinghamshire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Arnold
- Mobile tyre fitting in Beeston
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bestwood
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bingham
- Mobile tyre fitting in Blidworth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bulwell
- Mobile tyre fitting in Burton Joyce
- Mobile tyre fitting in Carlton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Clifton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cotgrave
- Mobile tyre fitting in Eastwood
- Mobile tyre fitting in Edwinstowe
Why use a mobile fitter?
You do not have to move a vehicle that is not safe to move. No limping to a garage on a space-saver, no waiting room, and no second trip to collect the car.
We bring the same equipment a garage would use, wheel balancing included, to wherever the vehicle already is.
Tyre brands we supply
We stock across three tiers so you can balance cost against tread life and wet-weather performance. If you tell us your budget, we will say honestly which tier makes sense for the mileage you do.
Budget and mid-range
- Farroad
- Hifly
- Churchill
- RoadX
- Infinity
Premium
- Michelin
- Pirelli
- Bridgestone
- Goodyear
- Continental
Need a brand that is not listed? Call us and we will check availability for your size, or see how mobile tyre fitting works.
