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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Pulborough
Pulborough, the ridge and the Arun brooks — 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.
Pulborough is strung out along a ridge looking south over the Arun floodplain, close to the point where the Rother joins it. The A29 runs north and south through the village and the A283 crosses it east and west, which makes this the junction that most of this corner of the Weald funnels through.
Sitting on a ridge above wet ground is the whole character of the place. The village itself stays dry. It is the roads in and out that give trouble, and they do it in two completely different ways at the two ends of the same A-road.
Roads we get called to around Pulborough
- The A29 north towards Billingshurst and south over Bury Hill.
- Church Hill, the narrow cutting at the top of the village.
- Lower Street and Swan Corner, at the bottom by the bridge.
- The A283 east to Storrington and west over the Arun towards Petworth.
- Station Road, where the A283 dips beneath the railway.
- Stopham, Hardham and the lanes running out onto the brooks.
One A-road with a problem at each end
At the bottom the problem is water. The Environment Agency's flood warning for Pulborough on the Arun names Lower Street and Swan Corner specifically, pumps are run when the river is up, and the A29 is among the roads that go under. The A283 does the same a short distance away, where Station Road passes under the railway; that dip fills and shuts, and the signed way round sends everything a long loop by way of the Petworth lorry route.
At the top the problem is the ground moving. A landslip just after Christmas in 2022 took Church Hill — the narrowest part of the A29, with steep embankments standing over it on both sides — down to a single lane on temporary signals. The banks are privately owned, the work has been through the magistrates' court, and this has now been the arrangement for years rather than months. If the signals are still there when you ring, they are the thing that decides our timing from the north.
Stopham Bridge, and the one that took over
West of the village the Arun is bridged twice within about thirty metres. The medieval one is Grade I listed and a scheduled monument, and since 1986 it has carried nobody but walkers and cyclists — the A283 was lifted onto a concrete bridge just upstream and has stayed there since.
So telling us you are at Stopham Bridge needs one more word. On the new one there is a live A-road under the car and nowhere at all to stand; at the old one you are off the highway entirely and it is one of the more comfortable places round here to get a wheel off. Say which of the two you mean.
How the water behaves here
This is a rain-fed flood and it works slowly at both ends. The Arun and the Rother collect off a great deal of Wealden clay upstream, so the brooks fill days after the rain that caused them and stay full for days after it has stopped. A lane that was fine at breakfast can be shut by the evening without a drop having fallen on it.
The useful thing to hold on to is that slowness. It does not arrive in an hour and it does not clear in one either, so the fact that an approach worked yesterday is not evidence about today, and the fact that it is dry overhead right now proves nothing at all.
We also cover Storrington along the A283, Billingshurst up the A29 and Petworth to the west.
What we can do in Pulborough
- 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 Pulborough 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 Pulborough
Standing water. We will not drive a van through water of unknown depth, so if a road is flooded we may ask to meet you on higher ground. Tell us which road you are on when you ring and we will work out the approach before setting off rather than after.
Common questions in Pulborough
- Is the A29 at Church Hill still down to one lane?
- It has been since the landslip in December 2022 and there has been no quick end to it — the embankments are in private hands and it has been fought out in court. Tell us if the signals are up when you ring and we will time the journey round them.
- Which Stopham Bridge am I on?
- If cars are going past you it is the modern one carrying the A283. The medieval bridge alongside it has taken no vehicles since 1986 and is walkers and cyclists only, which makes it a far easier place for us to work.
- Lower Street is under water and my car is in it.
- Say that first. That end of the village is named on the flood warning and it fills from the river rather than off the road, so it does not drain the moment the rain stops.
- Is there a level crossing in Pulborough?
- Not one you drive over. The A283 passes under the line at Station Road, and the crossing on the track north of here is a footpath one that is being replaced by a bridge.
- Do you cover Stopham, Hardham and West Chiltington?
- Yes, across RH20 and the lanes out onto the brooks.
Not in Pulborough?
We cover the rest of West Sussex and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Angmering
- Mobile tyre fitting in Arundel
- Mobile tyre fitting in Billingshurst
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bognor Regis
- Mobile tyre fitting in Burgess Hill
- Mobile tyre fitting in Chichester
- Mobile tyre fitting in Copthorne
- Mobile tyre fitting in Crawley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Crawley Down
- Mobile tyre fitting in East Grinstead
- Mobile tyre fitting in East Preston
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ferring
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.
