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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Bidford-on-Avon
Bidford-on-Avon, the old bridge and the B4085 — 24 hours a day.
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.
The crossing of the Avon at Bidford is ancient — it is where Ryknild Street came over the river — and the bridge standing on it now was built in the fifteenth century. Eight stone arches, seven big cutwaters carried right up to road level, and about seventy metres of blue lias and limestone with brick patched in where centuries of repairs have gone.
It is Grade I listed and a scheduled monument, and it carries the B4085 south towards Honeybourne and the Vale of Evesham. The B439 runs across the north side of the village on a relief road, and the B4085 leaves it at a roundabout to come down to the river.
Roads and places we get called to around Bidford-on-Avon
- The bridge and both approaches to it.
- The B4085 Honeybourne Road south, and north towards Wixford and Alcester.
- The B439 relief road along the north side of the village.
- The old High Street and the streets behind it.
- The riverside ground and the caravan and camping sites along it.
- Broom, Marlcliff, Barton, Cleeve Prior and Salford Priors.
A scheduled monument doing a commuter road's job
The B4085 is one of the main ways between south Warwickshire and the Vale of Evesham, and everything using it crosses a medieval bridge. The deck is narrow — the cutwaters come up through the parapet as refuges, which is what you stand in if you are walking over while something is coming — and there is a ten-tonne structural weight limit on it to keep heavy goods vehicles off, with emergency and public service vehicles excepted.
Two things follow for a driver. The first is that the bridge is regularly struck: a tractor took out a length of parapet a decade ago and a car did further damage more recently, and the masonry has needed rebuilding both times. The second is that it is not somewhere to stop. If a tyre lets go as you come off the bridge, keep going to the first place with a verge or a frontage rather than halting on the arch.
It also means we will not put a van on the bridge to work. If your car is stranded on it, that is a call to make immediately, because the crossing is blocked for everybody until the vehicle moves.
When the bridge is closed
Structural repairs to a bridge of this age take months rather than weeks, and the crossing shuts to vehicles while they are done. When that happens the signed diversion goes south on the B4085 and round by the A46, which is a long way for a journey that is normally a mile.
The alternative people find for themselves is the lane through Welford and over the bridge there, which is also single file and was given temporary signals last time to keep traffic off it in both directions at once. So if you ring us from the Vale side during a closure, expect us to ask which route you took to get where you are.
The old street and the relief road
Because the B439 was taken round the north of the village, Bidford has a quiet old High Street and a busy main road a couple of hundred yards apart. That is unusual for a village this size and it is good for us — the High Street is a genuinely workable place to change a wheel.
What it is not good for is describing where you are. The main road and the village street both run east to west through Bidford and a caller saying either can mean the other. Name the road, and say whether the bridge is behind you or ahead of you.
We also cover Honeybourne down the B4085, Alcester to the north and Stratford-upon-Avon along the B439.
What we can do in Bidford-on-Avon
- 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 Bidford-on-Avon 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.
Common questions in Bidford-on-Avon
- My car has stopped on the bridge itself.
- Ring us straight away and say that first. It is single file over the arches with nowhere to pass, so a stopped vehicle closes the crossing for everyone, and we will treat it differently from a car on a verge.
- Why is there a weight limit?
- The bridge is a fifteenth-century scheduled monument and the limit is structural — ten tonnes, with emergency and public service vehicles excepted. It is there to keep lorries off the arches.
- I clipped the parapet coming over.
- You will not be the first. Check the sidewall shape and the wheel rim on that side rather than just the pressure, and look at the tyre behind it too — a kerb or a stone parapet hits both on the same side.
- The bridge is shut and I am on the Evesham side.
- Tell us which way you came. During a closure the formal diversion runs round by the A46 and the unofficial one goes through Welford over another single-file bridge, and the two approaches are nothing like each other.
- Do you cover Broom, Marlcliff and Salford Priors?
- Yes, across B50 and the lanes either side of the river, including the riverside sites below the village.
Not in Bidford-on-Avon?
We cover the rest of Warwickshire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Alcester
- Mobile tyre fitting in Atherstone
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bedworth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bishops Itchington
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bulkington
- Mobile tyre fitting in Coleshill
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dunchurch
- Mobile tyre fitting in Exhall
- Mobile tyre fitting in Henley-in-Arden
- Mobile tyre fitting in Kenilworth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Kingsbury
- Mobile tyre fitting in Leamington Spa
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.
