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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Cleobury Mortimer
Cleobury Mortimer, the curving street and the Rea — 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.
Cleobury Mortimer is a small town on the A4117, eleven miles east of Ludlow with Bewdley and Kidderminster the other way, and the B4363 leaving it northward for Bridgnorth. Effectively the whole town is arranged along one street, which changes its name four times as it goes — Ludlow Road, High Street, Church Street, Lower Street — and falls the entire distance from the western end down to the River Rea at the bottom.
John Betjeman described it as a long airy curving street of brick Georgian houses and shops with genuine half-timber among them, and the Rea brook making a splash at the bottom of the hill. As a set of directions that still works.
Roads and places we get called to around Cleobury Mortimer
- The A4117 through the town — east towards Bewdley and Kidderminster, west towards Ludlow.
- The B4363 north towards Bridgnorth.
- Ludlow Road, the High Street, Church Street and Lower Street.
- The dip at the bottom where the Rea goes under the road.
- Vaughan Road, Catherton Road and the streets off the northern side.
- The lanes out to Hopton Wafers, Neen Savage and Kinlet.
One street, four names, all of it downhill
With a town this shape, a street name tells us very little and a position on the slope tells us a great deal. Somebody at the Ludlow Road end is at the top; somebody at the Lower Street end is in the dip at the bottom where the brook crosses. Those two points are a few hundred yards apart and they are not remotely the same job.
The street curves as well as falls, so sight lines along it are short. A stopped car on the outside of the bend is visible from a good deal less distance than the person sitting in it assumes. Hazards on, everybody out on the footway side, and if the wheel will still turn, get round onto a straight length before you stop properly.
The low point collects what the hill sends down it, too. Grit, silt and leaf litter wash along the camber of a street like this and end up at the bottom, so the surface underfoot at the Lower Street end is frequently not what it is two hundred yards up. Describe what is under the car, then, as well as the part of the street it has stopped on.
The spire that is not straight
St Mary's has a twelfth-century tower with a thirteenth-century spire on it, shingled in timber, and it leans and twists visibly enough that people stop to photograph it. The explanation usually given is water getting into the spire and the unseasoned timber inside turning as it dried out.
The walls below had a separate problem. In 1793 Thomas Telford, then county surveyor, was called in because they were leaning outwards, and had brick buttresses built against them; those were replaced in stone during the restoration of the 1870s. The church stands part way down the street, which is as good a division of the hill into upper and lower as you will get in a phone call.
The lanes people use to get round the town
Because the A4117 and the B4363 meet in the middle of a Georgian street, larger vehicles go looking for ways round, and the ways round here are lanes. Objections to development in the parish have named Stonehouse Crossroads and Church Lane as routes delivery traffic uses to get past the town, and the B4363 itself runs at national speed limit with lane ends opening onto it within a few yards of blind bends.
That produces a particular kind of call from this parish: a car pulled into a lane entrance to let something big get by, standing on ground that was never made up, on a bend where it cannot be seen coming. If that is where you are, the first thing to tell us is whether you are visible from both directions — it decides what we do first, which is not always the tyre.
We also cover Ludlow west along the A4117, Bewdley east along it and Bridgnorth up the B4363.
What we can do in Cleobury Mortimer
- 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 Cleobury Mortimer 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 Cleobury Mortimer
- Does giving you the street name help here?
- Less than you would expect. It is one street under four names, from Ludlow Road at the top to Lower Street at the bottom, so what we need is roughly how far down the hill you have stopped.
- Why is the church spire crooked?
- Water getting into the shingled spire, with the unseasoned timber inside twisting as it dried. The walls were a separate matter — Telford was brought in over those in 1793.
- My car is on the bend and traffic comes round it fast.
- Lead with that. The street curves as it falls, so you are visible from less distance than it feels from the driving seat. If the wheel turns at all, reach a straight length first.
- Something big is coming and I have pulled into a gateway in a lane.
- That happens a lot around this town, because larger vehicles use the lanes to avoid the street. Tell us whether you can be seen from both directions and what the wheels have gone onto.
- Do you cover Hopton Wafers, Neen Savage and Kinlet?
- Yes, across DY14 and the lanes on both sides of the Rea.
Not in Cleobury Mortimer?
We cover the rest of Shropshire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Albrighton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bayston Hill
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bishops Castle
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bridgnorth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Broseley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Church Stretton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Craven Arms
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dawley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ellesmere
- Mobile tyre fitting in Highley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ludlow
- Mobile tyre fitting in Madeley
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.
