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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Sompting
Sompting, the bypass and the old village — 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.
Sompting is a village with a main road driven through the middle of it. The bypass opened in 1939 and it did not go round; it went between the two halves, leaving the Saxon church and the downland farms on one side and the bulk of the housing on the other. The church has been separated from its own village for most of a century.
The A27 is that road, and it is not a consistent one here. There is a short length of dual carriageway between the lights at Busticle Lane and Lyons Farm, with single carriageway at forty either side of it. Below the village the A259 runs along the bottom, where Sompting merges into Worthing and Lancing without any visible break.
Roads we get called to around Sompting
- The A27 Sompting bypass, between Worthing and Lancing.
- Upper Brighton Road and West Street through the old village.
- Church Lane, up to the church from the mini-roundabout on the A27.
- Lambleys Lane and Dankton Lane, both of which have to get across the bypass.
- Boundstone Lane on the Lancing boundary.
- The remaining nursery ground and the tracks behind the houses.
A village with a trunk road through it
The lanes running north into the Downs — Church Lane, Lambleys Lane, Dankton Lane — all have to get across the A27 to reach the rest of Sompting, and the points at which they can are few and awkward. The upper ends of those lanes serve houses, businesses and working farms that sit on the National Park side of the road, and their only link to the village is over or through trunk traffic.
So the single most useful thing you can say on the phone here is which side of the bypass you are on. The upper and lower ends of these lanes share a name and a postcode, and they are three minutes apart in the right conditions and a great deal more in the wrong ones.
The church on the hill
St Mary's stands above the road with a Saxon tower carrying a four-gabled cap called a Rhenish helm — the only one left on a church in England. It is a genuinely good landmark. It can be seen from the A27 and from much of the coastal plain, and it fixes where the old village is at a point where the housing either side gives no clue at all.
Church Lane up to it is narrow and climbs, with the mini-roundabout at the bottom and pressure on the parking at the top. It is workable, but it is not a road with much to spare, so say roughly where on it you are stopped.
Glass, and what is under the houses
For about seventy years this was glasshouse country. Worthing was the leading centre of the trade in the country and Sompting was part of it, growing tomatoes and early salad under acres of glass. It shrank fast after the war — from well over a hundred acres of glass locally at the end of the 1940s to a fraction of that ten years later — and most of what went was built over.
What survives is the pattern on the ground. There are service tracks between houses, odd remnant plots, and access roads that were laid to get a lorry to a packing shed rather than to serve a street. A few addresses here are still reached down one of those, and they are narrower and rougher than a map suggests, so it is worth mentioning at the start of the call.
We also cover Lancing over Boundstone Lane, Worthing at the other end and Goring-by-Sea further west.
What we can do in Sompting
- 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 Sompting 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 Sompting
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 Sompting
- I am on the north side of the A27. How do I tell you that?
- Name the lane and say upper or north of the bypass. Church Lane, Lambleys Lane and Dankton Lane all exist on both sides of it, and the two halves are reached by different routes.
- Can you attend a breakdown on the bypass itself?
- Get off it first if the car will move. Most of the Sompting stretch is single carriageway with no hard shoulder, so there is nowhere to stand safely beside a stopped car.
- Is the church tower really the only one of its kind?
- Yes — the four-gabled Rhenish helm at St Mary's is the only surviving example on an English church, which is why people use it to give directions round here.
- There is a track to my house rather than a road.
- Common here on the old nursery ground. Say how long the track is and what the surface is like, and we will bring what the ground needs rather than turning round at the end of it.
- Do you cover North Sompting, Broadwater and Lancing?
- Yes, across BN14 and BN15.
Not in Sompting?
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.
