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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis, the Cobb and the A3052 — 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.
Lyme Regis is built into the side of a valley that runs straight down into the sea, and there is next to no level ground in it. The A35 stays four miles inland and takes all the traffic that only wants to get past. What serves the town is the A3052, and it does not really pass through so much as drop in and climb back out.
From the east it arrives on Charmouth Road and falls the whole way to the bottom, runs a short length of Bridge Street under traffic signals, then turns and climbs Broad Street to the top of the town, where it bears onto Pound Street for the run west into Devon. The B3165 carries straight on from that same point, north through Uplyme.
Roads we get called to around Lyme Regis
- The A3052 down Charmouth Road and out west along Pound Street.
- Bridge Street and the signals at the bottom of the town.
- Broad Street, the climb from the sea front back to the top.
- The B3165 north through Uplyme.
- Cobb Road and the harbour end of the front.
- The car parks off Charmouth Road, on Pound Street and down by the Cobb.
Nothing here is a through route
Everything moving on these streets is here deliberately, and all of it uses the same descent and the same climb, past one set of signals on a single-file stretch at the bottom of the hill. There is no alternative and no relief road; the town has one spine and that is it.
In summer this produces a queue that stands still for long periods on a slope. That is a situation of its own — a stationary line of cars on a gradient is no place to be changing anything, and the pavement beside it is usually full of people. If that is where you are, the first thing we need is whether you are above the signals or below them.
Ground that moves
This is the most actively slipping coastline in the country. West of the town the Undercliff towards Axmouth is a landslip several miles long, now a national nature reserve with no road through it at all — the only way west is inland, which is why the A3052 leaves over the top rather than along the shore.
The town itself sits on Blue Lias, clay and limestone in alternating bands, and it slides when it is wet. Successive coastal protection schemes have gone in over the last few decades to hold the front and the ground behind it, and the roads on the seaward side have been dug up, rebuilt and reinstated more than once.
For us it shows in small ways rather than dramatic ones. Settled patches, kerbs out of line, joints between old surface and new, and edges that have broken away. Broken edges are what take lumps out of tyres, and this town has more of them than most.
The Cobb
The Cobb is the harbour wall. People walk on it; nothing drives on it. The way down is Cobb Road, narrow and steep, and the parking is at the bottom on the flat behind the shingle.
Two things follow. When somebody says they are at the Cobb, they mean the car park and the road above it rather than the wall itself, and it is worth being clear which. And the beaches here are shingle and pebble rather than sand — nothing is driven onto them, so a vehicle that has somehow ended up on one is a recovery problem first and a tyre problem second.
We also cover Bridport east along the coast, Axminster inland, and Seaton the far side of the Undercliff.
What we can do in Lyme Regis
- 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 Lyme Regis 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 Lyme Regis
Salt. Sea air corrodes far harder than road salt does, and it works on the parts of a wheel you cannot see. Pitted alloy bead seats and corroded valve stems are the standard coastal fault, and they present as a slow leak with no puncture anywhere in the tread. Vehicles parked near the front year round get it worst.
Common questions in Lyme Regis
- I am stuck in the queue on Broad Street.
- Tell us whether you are above or below the signals at the bottom. Those are two separate approaches for us, and on a busy afternoon the difference between them is twenty minutes.
- Can you get down to the Cobb?
- Yes. Cobb Road is narrow but the van goes down it, and the parking at the bottom is flat with proper space beside a car. It is one of the easier spots in the town to work in.
- My car is parked on the sea front.
- Say which end of it. The front is long, the ways down to it are separate, and arriving at the wrong end means going back up to the top of the town and coming down again.
- Is there anywhere flat I could get to first?
- The car parks at the top, off Charmouth Road and on Pound Street, are the level ground here. If you are already at the bottom that is a long climb on a soft tyre, so ring before you attempt it and we will settle it between us.
- Do you cover Charmouth and Uplyme?
- Yes — Charmouth over the hill to the east, Uplyme up the B3165, and the lanes towards Rousdon across the Devon line.
Not in Lyme Regis?
We cover the rest of Dorset and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Beaminster
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bere Regis
- Mobile tyre fitting in Blandford Forum
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bournemouth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bridport
- Mobile tyre fitting in Christchurch
- Mobile tyre fitting in Colehill
- Mobile tyre fitting in Corfe Mullen
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dorchester
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ferndown
- Mobile tyre fitting in Gillingham, Dorset
- Mobile tyre fitting in Lytchett Minster
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.
