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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Send
Send, Cartbridge and Send Marsh — 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.
Send is strung out along the A247 on the east bank of the Wey, between Woking and the Clandons. The river and the Wey Navigation form the western boundary of the parish, and the A247 crosses the Navigation at Cartbridge on a bridge that has stonework in it dating from the 1750s.
The village comes in separate pieces rather than one block: Cartbridge down by the water, Send Marsh on the drier ground to the east, and Burnt Common at the southern end on the old Portsmouth road. The A247 threads all of them together and is the only road that does.
Roads and places we get called to around Send
- The A247 from Cartbridge at the north end through to Burnt Common.
- Cartbridge, where the road crosses the Navigation, with the wharf and moorings beside it.
- Ripley Road and the prison at the far edge of the parish.
- Send Marsh and the estate roads behind it.
- Church Lane, out to the church standing on its own by the river.
- The lane ends down towards Papercourt and the water meadows.
The prison car park
HM Prison Send is a closed women's prison on Ripley Road, built on the site of a former hospital at the southern edge of the parish. It has a free car park for people coming to visit, and visits run as fixed afternoon sessions, so the cars arrive together and leave together.
Two things follow from that, and both are worth knowing before you ring us. The first is that phones do not go in. Someone whose tyre has gone down while they were inside finds out about it on the way out, not during, and there is no way for anybody to reach them in the meantime. If you are ringing on behalf of a visitor who is still in the session, say so and we will arrange around the finish time rather than expecting to speak to the driver.
The second is that people travel a long way for a two-hour slot. A good proportion of the cars standing in that car park have just come off a motorway, which is where a tyre picks up most of what damages it, and they will be going straight back onto one. We work in the visitor car park itself — it is level, made up and has room — and not beyond the gate.
Cartbridge and the Navigation
The bridge at Cartbridge is the tight spot on the A247. It carries the full width of the traffic between Woking and Guildford over a waterway on a hump with no spare room on either side, and there is a wharf, a basin and boat moorings immediately off it. A car stopped on or just past the crown of that bridge is stopping the road for everyone.
If the wheel will still turn, roll clear of the bridge before you stop. It is only a few yards and it turns a difficult job into an ordinary one. If it will not, tell us which side of the water you ended up on, because the alternative crossings here are a long way north and south.
Cartbridge, Send Marsh or Burnt Common
A Send postcode by itself does not tell us which end of the village you are at, and the ends are more than a mile apart with different approaches. From the north we come in off the Woking road to Cartbridge. From the south the sensible approach to Burnt Common is off the main road at the bottom, not through the village at all.
So lead with the part of Send rather than the parish. The lanes down towards the meadows and Papercourt are a separate matter again: several of them end at the water with no room to turn a van, so if that is where you are, name the lane and we will come in knowing we are reversing out.
We also cover Woking to the north, Ripley along the old Portsmouth road and Guildford down the A247.
What we can do in Send
- 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 Send 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 Send
- My car is in the prison visitors' car park with a flat tyre.
- We can work there — it is level and there is room. Ring before you go in if you already know, because you will not have a phone with you during the session and we cannot reach you while it runs.
- Can you change a wheel on Cartbridge itself?
- No. The bridge over the Navigation has no width to spare and a stopped vehicle closes the A247. Roll off it first if the wheel will carry you at all.
- What should I say instead of just Send?
- Cartbridge, Send Marsh or Burnt Common. Those are more than a mile apart and we approach each of them from a different direction.
- Can you reach a boat or the towpath?
- Only as far as a vehicle goes. The towpath is not a road, so if the car is at a lane end near the water, give us the lane and we will bring what we need from there.
- Do you cover Ripley, West Clandon and Burnt Common?
- Yes, across GU23 and the roads either side of the A247.
Not in Send?
We cover the rest of Surrey and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Addlestone
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ashford
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ashtead
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bagshot
- Mobile tyre fitting in Banstead
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bisley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bletchingley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bookham
- Mobile tyre fitting in Byfleet
- Mobile tyre fitting in Camberley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Caterham
- Mobile tyre fitting in Chertsey
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.
