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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Coleford
Coleford, the Forest roads and the Wye — 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.
Coleford is the Forest of Dean's market town, sitting in a shallow bowl with the ground rising away from the middle of it in most directions. The A4136 passes just north on its way from Gloucester to Monmouth, and the B-roads take everything else out into the trees.
The clock tower in the market place is what is left of a church pulled down in the nineteenth century, and the roads run round it. It is what everybody here navigates by, and it is the right thing to use when you tell us where you are.
Roads we get called to around Coleford
- The A4136 east towards Mile End and Cinderford, west towards Staunton and Monmouth.
- The market place and the clock tower, with St John Street and Bank Street climbing north from it.
- Lords Hill and the High Street on the south side of the centre.
- Newland Street running south-west along the brook towards Newland.
- The B4028 Gloucester Road off the north-east side of the town.
- The forest car parks and trail centres in the woods north of the town.
Sheep with a right to be in the road
Sheep run loose over the Forest and they are not strays. Around fifty registered commoners hold a grazing right here that goes back centuries, and their animals use the roads, the lay-bys and the edges of the housing estates as a matter of course. Nobody is coming to collect them.
Two things follow from that in practice. They gather where it is warm and sheltered, which after dark means the carriageway and in hot weather means the shade underneath parked vehicles — so look under the car before anything goes near a jacking point. It sounds like a joke and it is not.
And a fair share of the damage we deal with here begins with a driver going wide for one at dusk. The wheel finds a bank or a lump of forest stone, and the resulting mark is often on the inner shoulder where nobody thinks to look. Mention it if that is how it happened, rather than only describing what the outside of the tyre looks like.
Freeminers and the tracks they use
Anyone born in the Hundred of St Briavels who has worked a year and a day underground can still claim a gale — a defined block of ground — and work it. The right was specifically exempted when the coal industry was nationalised, which is why there are still small private workings scattered through these woods.
They are reached by unmade tracks off the forest roads, surfaced with whatever came out of the ground: shale, spoil and broken stone with a great many sharp edges in it. The vans and pickups that work off them come to us with cut shoulders and cut sidewalls far more often than with nail punctures.
Down to the Wye at Redbrook
The road from Newland Street down to Redbrook is narrow, wooded and enclosed, and it loses a lot of height before it comes out on the A466 in the river valley. There is very little room to turn a van round between the two ends of it.
So tell us which end you came in from. If you are nearer the bottom we may come up from the Wye rather than down from the town, which is a different route entirely.
We also cover Cinderford across the Forest, Lydney down towards the Severn, and Monmouth over the Wye.
What we can do in Coleford
- 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 Coleford 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 Coleford
Lanes and farm access. Single-track lanes need somewhere to put both your vehicle and ours without blocking the road, so a gateway or a passing place is worth reaching if the car is still drivable. Agricultural traffic drops wire, staples and broken tines, and harvest spreads them well beyond the field gate — which is why the lanes produce punctures out of proportion to how little traffic they carry.
Common questions in Coleford
- A sheep was lying under my car when I came back to it.
- Common here in warm weather. Move it on and check the tyre valves and the wheel arch liners before you drive, then ring us if anything looks disturbed. They chew what they can reach.
- I went wide avoiding one and the tyre looks fine.
- Worth a look anyway. A kerb or a stone bank takes the hit on the inner shoulder, which you cannot see from the outside of the car with the wheel on.
- Can you get up a mine track or a forest track?
- Usually, but tell us it is a track rather than a road and what the surface is. Loose shale and broken stone change what comes off the van with us.
- How should I place myself on a forest road?
- Name the car park, the trail centre or the nearest hamlet. Several of those roads carry no number and no sign anywhere along them.
- Do you cover Berry Hill, Christchurch and Clearwell?
- Yes, across GL16 and the villages around it.
Not in Coleford?
We cover the rest of Gloucestershire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Berkeley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bishop's Cleeve
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bourton-on-the-Water
- Mobile tyre fitting in Brockworth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cam
- Mobile tyre fitting in Chalford
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cheltenham
- Mobile tyre fitting in Churchdown
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cinderford
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cirencester
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dursley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Fairford
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.
