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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Earl Shilton
Earl Shilton, Clickers Way and the old road over the rise — 24 hours.
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.
Earl Shilton stands on a low rise between Hinckley and Leicester, with the churchyard and the ground behind it at about a hundred and twenty metres and the fields falling away to the north. The A47 is the road the village is known for, and it has not run through the middle of it for years. Through traffic goes round the south and east on Clickers Way.
What the bypass left behind is the village street. Hinckley Road comes up from the Barwell side, Wood Street carries on east of it at twenty, High Street goes over the top of the rise, and Leicester Road drops north-east for a mile to meet the A47 again at the far end. Station Road, the B581, leaves south-west towards Elmesthorpe. Nearly everything we attend here is on one of those or a few yards off it.
Roads we get called to around Earl Shilton
- Clickers Way, the A47, from the Station Road roundabout round to the Leicester Road end.
- Wood Street and High Street through the middle of the village.
- Leicester Road and the drop north-east towards the bypass junction.
- Station Road (B581), Hinckley Road and Carrs Hill towards Barwell.
- Keats Lane, Almey's Lane, Church Street and the streets around the churchyard.
- Breach Lane, Mill Lane, Thurlaston Lane and Watery Gate Lane on the east side.
Four turnings in four kilometres
Clickers Way is single carriageway, at the national limit for most of its length and forty at each end. In the whole of it there are four side roads: Wilkinson Lane and Masefield Drive near the Barwell end, then Breach Lane, then Mill Lane. Past Mill Lane there is nothing whatever until the junction where the A47 rejoins itself, the better part of a mile further on.
That is the difficulty with it. There is no frontage anywhere along it — no houses, no shops, nothing with a name on it — because it was cut across open fields and left that way. If you have stopped on it, the last turning you went by and the direction you were going is the whole of what places you, and it is worth registering a turning as you pass it rather than reconstructing it afterwards from memory.
The verge looks generous for most of the length and it is made ground, not anything you would choose to put weight on. Say whether the car is fully on the tarmac or partly off it when you ring, because that decides what comes off the van.
The old road over the rise
Wood Street is twenty and High Street is thirty, and neither of them got any wider when the through traffic came off them. Frontages sit straight on the footway along the older blocks, parking runs down the kerb, and there are no driveways at all in places, so what is actually free beside a wheel changes over a few house numbers rather than over a few hundred yards.
The gradient is modest but it is real: roughly ten metres up from the Wood Street corner to the top of the village, then about thirty down the other side on Leicester Road inside a mile. Cars get left nose-down on the north side and it is worth telling us which way yours is pointing before we set off.
The churchyard is the fixed point up there. Just west of it, on private ground, is the scheduled earthwork of the castle the Earls of Leicester raised and then pulled down again in the twelfth century. It is a grass mound on a field edge rather than anything you can drive to, so it is worth knowing about and no use at all as a place to meet. The churchyard gates are the thing to quote up there, with a house number to go with them.
Where the village stops being a village
The lanes on the Thurlaston side leave from close to the middle rather than from an outskirt. Breach Lane, Mill Lane and Watery Gate Lane are out in open field within a few hundred yards of the last terrace, and they run unlit, unmarked and one vehicle wide for most of their length.
So an Earl Shilton address can be a kerbed street with a footway or a field gate with a hedge one side and a ditch the other, and nothing in the address separates the two. Out there, the gate, the farm entrance or the bridge is what we need from you, along with whether the car is properly clear of the running surface or only mostly clear.
We also cover Barwell along Shilton Road, Hinckley down the A47 and Leicester up it.
What we can do in Earl Shilton
- 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 Earl Shilton 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 Earl Shilton
- I have stopped on Clickers Way and there is nothing to name.
- The last side road you passed — Wilkinson Lane, Masefield Drive, Breach Lane or Mill Lane — and which way you were heading. There are only four of them in the entire road, so naming one narrows it down a long way.
- Can you work outside a house on Wood Street?
- Usually. It is twenty through there and the frontages come right out to the footway, so tell us what is parked either side of you and whether your car is tight to the kerb or set back into an opening.
- Would it be easier to meet you out on the bypass?
- Almost never. Clickers Way runs at the national limit with no frontage and no proper refuge along it. If the car will still creep, come off at a turning and we will meet you on that instead.
- The car is down Watery Gate Lane.
- Give us the nearest gate or farm entrance and say whether both nearside wheels are off the tarmac. Those lanes take one vehicle at a time and we need somewhere to stand without blocking them.
- Do you cover Barwell, Elmesthorpe and Stapleton?
- Yes, across LE9 and into LE10 at the Hinckley end.
Not in Earl Shilton?
We cover the rest of Leicestershire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Anstey
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Mobile tyre fitting in Barrow upon Soar
- Mobile tyre fitting in Barwell
- Mobile tyre fitting in Birstall
- Mobile tyre fitting in Blaby
- Mobile tyre fitting in Braunstone
- Mobile tyre fitting in Broughton Astley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Castle Donington
- Mobile tyre fitting in Coalville
- Mobile tyre fitting in Countesthorpe
- Mobile tyre fitting in Enderby
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.
