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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Mountsorrel
Mountsorrel, the Market Place and the works above it — 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.
Mountsorrel is a long thin village squeezed onto a narrow terrace between the River Soar and a steep wooded slope, and the slope is the reason it is there. The rock underneath is a very hard pinkish stone — hornblende granodiorite, worked since Roman times — and the hole that has been taken out of the hill behind the houses is now among the largest granite workings in Europe. Tarmac run it, and the village sits beside it.
The A6 used to come straight through the middle. It does not now: a dual carriageway at seventy passes to the east and what is left through the village is Leicester Road, the Market Place and Loughborough Road, traffic calmed and back down to thirty.
Roads and places we get called to around Mountsorrel
- The Market Place, Leicester Road and Loughborough Road — the old line of the A6 through the village.
- The Green, Castle Hill, Watling Street and Barons Way.
- Bond Lane, Hawcliffe Road and the ground on the works side.
- Granite Way, which runs off the A6 towards the works.
- Sileby Road, Rothley Road, Halstead Road and Swithland Lane.
- The A6 itself, in both directions past the village.
Most of the stone never touches the road
This is the thing about Mountsorrel that surprises people who expect a village buried under lorries. It is not. The great majority of what comes out of the ground here leaves without ever being on a public highway.
A branch railway was built to the workings in 1860 and crossed the Soar on a single brick arch, which still stands and is listed. The rails are long gone from it. What it carries now is a conveyor belt, running crushed stone out of the site, over the river, to a loading point beside the Midland Main Line at Barrow upon Soar, where it goes onto trains. Much of it leaves as railway ballast and ends up under track a long way from here.
There is a reason for that arrangement and it is an old one. When the stone did go out by cart, along turnpikes, it damaged the roads about as fast as it could be laid on them to mend them. A belt and a railhead solved a problem the roads could not.
A village surfaced in its own product
The other place the stone went was straight into the buildings. Houses here are granite rubble or brick with granite at the base; the boundary walls along Watling Street and Loughborough Road are granite; a good many roofs are still Swithland slate from the pits over the hill. It is about as self-contained as an English village gets.
It shows in the carriageway too. The Market Place and stretches of Loughborough Road, Leicester Road and Sileby Road are laid in stone blocks rather than asphalt, and the change happens without warning part way along a street. If you are telling us where you are, saying whether you are standing on stone or on tarmac narrows it down faster than a house number does.
The lorries that do come through
Some plant and aggregate movement does still use the road, and it uses Granite Way and the A6 rather than the Market Place. The A6 here is dual, fast and has no village landmarks visible from it at all, so if you have stopped on it the direction of travel and the nearest junction are what place you — the village name is no help from the carriageway.
We also cover Quorn upstream, Sileby across the valley and Birstall towards the city.
What we can do in Mountsorrel
- 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 Mountsorrel 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 Mountsorrel
- Is the village full of stone lorries?
- Far less than people expect. Most of the output goes out on a conveyor to a rail loading point rather than by road, and what does go by road uses Granite Way and the A6.
- My car is parked on the stone setts in the Market Place.
- Tell us that when you ring. The surface changes from block to tarmac part way along several streets here, and knowing which you are on tells us what we are working over.
- I am on the A6 by Mountsorrel and cannot see anything to describe.
- You will not. It is dual carriageway with screening either side. Give us the direction and the nearest junction or roundabout instead.
- Can you get up Bond Lane and Hawcliffe Road?
- Yes. Say whether the vehicle is on the public road or inside a gated yard, because those need somebody on site to let us in.
- Do you cover Rothley, Swithland and Woodhouse?
- Yes, across LE12 and LE7 on both sides of the valley.
Not in Mountsorrel?
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 Earl Shilton
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.
