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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Modbury
Modbury, the A379 and the Avon valley — 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.
Modbury is one street on a hill, and the A379 is that street. Church Street, Broad Street and Galpin Street are a single continuous run from one end of the town to the other, dropping and then climbing again, with slate-hung Georgian frontages hard against the pavement on both sides and steps up to most of the doors.
The road it carries is the Plymouth to Kingsbridge route. There is no bypass and there is no back way through, so a market town of fifteen hundred people has a primary A-road running through its middle at a gradient.
Roads we get called to around Modbury
- The A379 through Church Street, Broad Street and Galpin Street.
- The run west to Yealmpton and Plymouth, and east down to Aveton Gifford.
- Brownston Street, Back Street and Poundwell Street off the main run.
- The B3207 north towards Ermington and the A38 at Ivybridge.
- The lanes down to the Erme and Avon estuaries and out to Bigbury.
Close the street and you close the region
When the A379 through Modbury has to shut — and it has been closed for weeks at a time for utility and structural work — the signed diversion is not round the corner. It goes miles about, because nothing else between Plymouth and Kingsbridge will take the traffic.
The same is true on a small scale. A vehicle stopped on Broad Street with a wheel off holds up the through route for the whole of the South Hams, and there is no lay-by, no widening and nowhere to let anything past. Where the street is steepest the pavement is raised a couple of feet above the road, which takes away what little edge there might have been.
The tidal road at Aveton Gifford
Three miles east of the town, the lane running down the Avon from Aveton Gifford towards Bantham is a public highway that goes under the sea twice a day. It has been there since at least the fifteenth century, it is signed, and every year a number of drivers ignore the signs and find out how quickly the water arrives.
If that is where you are, say so at the start of the call, because the answer depends entirely on the state of the tide. A vehicle standing in salt water on a tidal road is a recovery job on a timetable, not a wheel change, and the timetable is not negotiable.
A town of small shops
Modbury became the first town in Britain to give up plastic carrier bags, back in 2007, on the strength of its shopkeepers agreeing to it between themselves. That tells you something practical about the place: almost all its trade is independent and almost all of it is on the one street, which means loading and unloading happens on the carriageway all morning.
We also cover Ivybridge up the B3207, Kingsbridge along the A379 and Plymouth to the west.
What we can do in Modbury
- 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 Modbury 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 Modbury
Gradients. A sustained climb builds heat in the casing, and heat finds whatever weakness is already there — which is why underinflated or previously damaged tyres are the ones that let go on a long pull rather than on the flat. On a steep slope we will ask to move onto level ground before jacking: a handbrake holds two wheels, and that margin drops sharply the moment one of them comes off the ground.
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 Modbury
- I have stopped on Broad Street and traffic is backing up.
- It will, quickly — that is the only through route between Plymouth and Kingsbridge. If the car can be rolled clear to either end of the town, do that first and ring us from there.
- The pavement beside me is higher than the road.
- Standard on the steep section here. It means there is no edge to work from on that side, so tell us which side of the street you are on and we will plan where the van stands.
- I am on the tidal road at Aveton Gifford and the water is rising.
- Get out and get clear on foot if the vehicle is already in it. That road floods on every high tide and no wheel change happens in salt water — it becomes a recovery, and the tide sets the time limit.
- Can you park a van in the town centre?
- In places, and only for as long as the work takes. Loading goes on all morning and the street has no spare width, so we will usually agree a spot with you before we arrive.
- Do you cover Ermington, Yealmpton, Bigbury and Aveton Gifford?
- Yes, across PL21 and the lanes down to both estuaries.
Not in Modbury?
We cover the rest of Devon and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Axminster
- Mobile tyre fitting in Barnstaple
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bideford
- Mobile tyre fitting in Brixham
- Mobile tyre fitting in Budleigh Salterton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Crediton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cullompton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dartmouth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dawlish
- Mobile tyre fitting in Exeter
- Mobile tyre fitting in Exmouth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Honiton
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.
